Wednesday, January 26, 2011

LYRICS for BOUNDIN'


I’ve been curious as to the lyrics for Pixar’s Boundin’ (featured with the movie The Incredibles) for a while now. After searching the web and finding nothing, I decided to watch it carefully and note the lyrics. No guarantee they’re accurate, but I thought I’d share what I have.

Here's a story on how strange is life with its changes
And it happened not long ago.
On a high mountain plain, where the sagebrush arranges
A playground south of the snow
Lived a lamb with a coat of remarkable sheen,
It would glint in the sunlight all sparkly and clean,
Such a source of great pride
that it caused him to preen.
And he'd break out in high step 'n dance.
He would dance for his neighbors across the way.
I must say that they found his dancin' enhancin',
For they'd also join in the play.

Then one day…

Then a-boundin up the slope
Came a great American jackalope.
This sage of the sage, this rare hare of hope,
Caused to pause and check out the lamb.
“Hey kid, why the mope?”

“I used to be something all covered with fluff,
And I’d dance in the sunlight and show off my stuff,
Then they hauled me away in a manner quite rough
And sheared me and dropped me back here in the buff.
And if that’s not enough
Now my friends all laugh at me
Cause they think I look ridiculous, funny, and pink.”

“Pink? Pink? Well, what’s wrong with pink?
Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think.
Does it matter what color? Well, that gets nope.
Be it pink purple or heliotrope.
Now sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down,
When you find that you’re down well just look around:
You still got a body, good legs and fine feet,
Get your head in the right place and hey, you’re complete!

“Now as for the dancin’, you can do more,
You can reach great heights, in fact you can soar.
You just get a leg up and ya slap it on down,
And you’ll find you’re up in what’s called a bound.
Bound, bound, and rebound.
Bound and you’re up right next to the sky,
And I think you can do it if you give it a try,
First get a leg up, slap it on down…”

So every year, along about May,
They’d load him up and they’d haul him away,
And they’d shave him and dump him all naked and bare.
He learned to live with it, he didn’t care,
He’d just bound, bound, bound, and rebound.

Now in this world of ups and downs…
So nice to know there are jackalopes around.

8 comments:

Beatriz said...

Thank you for this, I love the short pix, it gives you a positive thinking either your are old or just starting to live...

Christina said...

Thanks so much 4 this!

Myrna M. said...

I, too, thank you for this! :)

Sha-Dizzle said...

i'll be using this for a class im teaching later this summer. Thank you so much!!!

Brent said...

Thank you for posting this...my all-time favorite thing from PIXAR.

Markó Szilvia Anita said...

Thank you for the lyrics!
I was looking for this, but couldn't find it.
:)

Unknown said...

Thank you for posting the lyrics. (It was the only version I found when looking them up.)
I have the DVD and played it with subtitles.

The only correction is:
"... he'd break out in high-steppin'dance." instead of "high step 'n' dance"

... so well done and keep up the good work!

Unknown said...

bound bound bound bound and rebound