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There It Is Again! (II. from Things That Go Bump In the Night)
SA/SSA, piano, optional flute solo - SEA-011-02 - $3.00/copy - MECommissioned through the Syracuse Society for New Music Composers-in-the-Schools Program
This is the second movement of Things That Go Bump In the Night.
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Things That Go Bump In the Night
II. There it is again!
Cracking lumber
Wakes me from my slumber,
And my fear is born.
Sky and clouds brawl,
Simple things make my skin crawl,
And I feel anything but warm.
I hold my breath and dare not make a peep.
I try to go back to sleep.
I can't go back to sleep...
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch - What's that?
I hear a creaking and a moaning,
Souls in agony are groaning.
There it is again!
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch - Who's there?
It's getting louder, and louder, and louder!
Is it alive or is it dead?
Something's creeping under my bed!
Is it a horseman without a head?
I want to scream for my mom and dad!
There it is again!
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch
I feel my hair rising... rising... higher and higher to the roof! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I can't open my eyes! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I jump out of my Pjs! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I start to grow a beard! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm...
Open the door to my closet.
Trying to find what could cause it.
Is it a spider on a string?
Is it a big green gooey thing?
Is it a vampire whose teeth go cling?
There it is again!
I feel my house shaking...shaking...shaking...No, I'm shaking!
A roar and a rip and then I know
It's a... it's a... it's a...
And it's coming closer, and closer, and closer, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! It opens up my door! Its eyes turn red! And it's coming towards me and I hear this noise...
(Adult voice, spoken:) GET BACK IN BED!
(Tutti:) I turn on the light, not a shadow in sight -
So I go back to sleep, and I don't hear a peep.
Based on poems by students at Edward Smith Elementary School (Syracuse, NY). Copyright © 1997 by Elizabeth Alexander.
II. There it is again!
Cracking lumber
Wakes me from my slumber,
And my fear is born.
Sky and clouds brawl,
Simple things make my skin crawl,
And I feel anything but warm.
I hold my breath and dare not make a peep.
I try to go back to sleep.
I can't go back to sleep...
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch - What's that?
I hear a creaking and a moaning,
Souls in agony are groaning.
There it is again!
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch - Who's there?
It's getting louder, and louder, and louder!
Is it alive or is it dead?
Something's creeping under my bed!
Is it a horseman without a head?
I want to scream for my mom and dad!
There it is again!
Scratch Scrunchity Scritch
I feel my hair rising... rising... higher and higher to the roof! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I can't open my eyes! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I jump out of my Pjs! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm so scared I start to grow a beard! I'm (BUMP) - I'm (BUMP) - I'm...
Open the door to my closet.
Trying to find what could cause it.
Is it a spider on a string?
Is it a big green gooey thing?
Is it a vampire whose teeth go cling?
There it is again!
I feel my house shaking...shaking...shaking...No, I'm shaking!
A roar and a rip and then I know
It's a... it's a... it's a...
And it's coming closer, and closer, and closer, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! It opens up my door! Its eyes turn red! And it's coming towards me and I hear this noise...
(Adult voice, spoken:) GET BACK IN BED!
(Tutti:) I turn on the light, not a shadow in sight -
So I go back to sleep, and I don't hear a peep.
Based on poems by students at Edward Smith Elementary School (Syracuse, NY). Copyright © 1997 by Elizabeth Alexander.
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