Loose Tooth

Loose Tooth
by Jon Cobert & Tom Chapin
© 1994 The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Sarabeth has got a loose tooth,
Loose tooth, loose tooth.
Sarabeth has got a loose tooth,
Loose tooth, loose tooth.
All day long with her finger in her mouth
And she’s pulling it north and a-pushing it south.
Sarabeth has got a loose tooth
And it won’t be there too long.

Mama says, “Leave it alone. It’ll fall out on its own.”
But Sara can’t wait, Sara can’t wait
To have a new one in and grown.
Sarabeth has got a loose tooth
And it won’t be there too long.

Poppa wants to pull it. (“No! No!”)
Brother wants to yank it. (“No. No. No!”)
Tie it to a doorknob -- Eat a piece of taffy --
Get a pair of pliers -- “Wait! Look!”

Sarabeth has got no tooth, no tooth, no tooth.
Sarabeth has got no tooth, no tooth, no tooth.
And all day long she’s feeling at the space
And a-wond’ring when a new one’s
Gonna take it’s place.
Sarabeth has got no tooth, no tooth, no tooth.
That night when she went to bed
She put the old tooth under her head,
The Tooth Fairy crept in while she slept ‘n’
Took it out and left a dollar instead.

Sarabeth has got a new tooth, new tooth, new tooth.
Sarabeth has got a new tooth, new tooth, new tooth.
She cut down on the candy
And the soda and the sweets.
And she brushes and she flosses
And she’s careful what she eats.
’Cause Sarabeth has got a new tooth,
Sarabeth has got a new tooth
Gonna last her whole life long.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Zag Zig CD.

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