The Honeybee Waggle

The Honeybee Waggle
by John Forster, Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 2011 Limousine Music Co., HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

I found some nectar. I brought it home
To show everybody in the honeycomb.
I've got some samples,
So foragers, gather 'round.
Gonna dance you directions
To the stuff I found.
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
Bzzz bzzz Show you where...
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
Watch and you'll get there,
As I walk a line, waggle and then
Turn in a circle and do it again.
It's a GPS right here in my pants,
The Honeybee Waggle Dance. Yeah!

Bzzz Ooo! Bzzz Oh! Bzzz Wow!
Bzzz Let's go! Bzzz

Ten degrees west of the sun.
Squadron ready for a nectar run.
Distance? Check. Bearings, too.
Plus we've got another job to do.
Spreading pollen bloom to bloom,
Watch the flower population boom.
Buds'll bud. Roots'll root.
We make sure that every fruit will fruit. Yeah!
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
Bzzz bzzz Not too far...
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
Where the flowers are.
Pollinate left, some pollen sticks.
Pollinate right and the pollens mix.
It's a male and female flower romance
From the Honeybee Waggle Dance.

Flying home all loaded up,
Clear sweet nectar from a buttercup.
A field of flowers filled this sack.
Come on, fellas, help a bee unpack!
Chew it up and spit it out.
Show what honey making's all about.
Spread it, let it evaporate.
Seal it up with wax and celebrate. Yeah!
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
Bzzz The original agro-biz...
Bzzz bzzz The Honeybee Waggle.
The sweetest dance there is.
The lindy hop at a fancy ball
Won't make any kind of food at all.
A waltz, a tango, buck 'n wing
Ain't gonna pollinate a single thing.

But the Honeybee Waggle feeds the hive,
Keeping the whole wide world alive.
So if you happen to live on plants,
Be grateful for this happenstance:
That reproduction's not by chance.
It's the Honeybee Waggle Dance.
Bzzz The Honeybee Waggle Dance!

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Give Peas A Chance CD.

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