The David Tabernacle Choir
The Day all the Rulers Disappeared
The Day all the Rulers Reappeared
Did You Ever See a Lassie?
Dimes and Pennies
Do You Ever Wonder?
Dona Nobis Pacem / Please Give Us Peace
Don't Ever Mess With a Pig
Don't Look Back
Down by the Riverside
Down by the Station
Ducks in Trucks
Dudley Diggins

The David Tabernacle Choir
(c) 1998 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

(This silly song demonstrates the different voices in a choir. David magically appears as each part.)

Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

Baritone, Baritone

Tenor, a tenor, I am the greatest tenor. A tenor, a tenor, a tenor am I.

Alto, Alto

Soprano, I am a soprano I am a soprano. I can sing so very high
‘Cause I am a soprano. I am a soprano!

The Day All the Rulers Disappeared
(c)2004 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

Oh I am five spaghetti noodles
From my toes up to my head
15 veggie hot dogs is the full length of my bed
It only took 1 worm to measure Uncle Harvey’s beard
The day all the rulers disappeared

I was playing in my backyard
When I heard the strangest sound
A flying saucer came right down
and landed on the ground
And just like in the movies, and just to my surprise
out came a mean green alien with laser vision eyes

He said “take me to your rulers”
It was really just too much
He likely meant our presidents
prime ministers and such
But instead he zapped MY ruler
with his laser vision stare
And all around the planet rulers vanished in thin air

This wild way of measuring is starting to catch on
My father used a garden hose
to measure our front lawn
“Two hoses long in front” he said,
“and three long in the back
And 47 thousand from our house to Shediack”

My sister used a pickle measuring fabric for a dress
The dress, it fit but smelled a bit
whenever it was pressed
My mother makes me walk to school
I said “it’s way too far”
Ninety thousand jelly beans away
so now we take the car

The Day all the Rulers Reappeared
(c)2004 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

One hundred thirty centimetres from my toes up to my head
About two metres long is the full length of my bed
We no longer needed worms to measure Uncle Harvey's beard
The day all the rulers reappeared

On the way to school I heard a sound I'd heard before
A flying saucer came and landed on the grocery store
It was the same mean alien that came to earth last year
And made every single ruler on the planet disappear
"When I said take me to your rulers, you misunderstood.
I meant your very BEST rulers, these one are no good.
They cannot even talk or move how can they ever rule?
You should take these rulers back and send them all to ruler school."

People all around the world they shouted out with joy
Rulers were returned to every girl and every boy
They were measuring in ways that they could not do before
They wouldn't have to measure with spaghetti anymore

Now I've got my ruler back I measure things for fun
A 15 centimetre hotdog, a 20 centimetre bun
I could go on measuring from dawn til dusk each day
I hope that that alien is a million metres away!

 

Did You Ever See a Lassie?

(c)1992, Adapted by Judy and David Gershon (SOCAN)

Did you ever see a lassie, a lassie, a lassie
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?
Go this way and that way and this way and that way
Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?

Did you ever see a mosquito, a mosquito, a mosquito
Did you ever see a mosquito go this way and that?
Go (buzz, slap), and (buzz, slap), and (buzz, slap), and (buzz, slap)
Did you ever see a mosquito go (buzz, slap)?

Did you ever see a dog...(woof, woof)...

Did you ever see a chicken...(bawk bawk)...

Did you ever see a frog...(ribbet, ribbet)...

Did you ever see a grandma...(kiss, kiss)...

Dimes and Pennies
(c)2004 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

Dimes and pennies, pennies and dimes
Will get you any number, any time

With just nine pennies and just nine dimes
You can make any old number from one to ninety-nine
It's all because of something they call place value
You can do any old number that you want to do

You want to buy a chocolate, it's 23 cents
Don't panic now just keep your cool ladies and gents
The two is the number of the dimes you will need
And the three is the pennies, are you following me?

The last digit of the number is the number of ones
I just think of it as pennies and it's much more fun
The number to the left is the number of tens
I just think of it as dimes and you can too, my friends

Dudley Diggins, you may know him, he collected dimes
He had a friend named Penny and they had a good time
It all added up, they had to admit
Dudley's dimes and Penny's pennies were a perfect fit

Three dimes and two pennies... (32 cents!)
Six dimes and four pennies...(64 cents!)
Eight dimes and one penny...(81 cents!)
Nine dimes and no pennies.... (90 cents!)

Do You Ever Wonder?
(c)1997 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

Do you ever wonder, do you ever even try
To understand the mystery and beauty of the sky
Is there anybody out there on a planet or a star
Looking up and wondering the same thing that we are

Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are

Do you ever let yourself just wonder? Do you ever even try?
Do you ever listen to the children? See the magic in their eyes?

Dona Nobis Pacem / Please Give Us Peace

(c)1992, Adapted by Judy and David Gershon (SOCAN) Dona nobis pacem, pacem
Dona nobis pacem

Please give us peace

 

Don’t Ever Mess With a Pig
(c)2000 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

You may think that pigs look funny
You may laugh because we’re like so totally pink
You may chuckle at our curly little tails
But we’re tougher than you think

You gotta show a little respect
To all swine, small or big
And though a pig can be a mess
I said don’t you ever mess with a pig

Make all the pig jokes that you like
When the little piggies can’t be found
Oh, but you’d better think twice if you ain’t that nice
When the little piggy pals are around

Show a little respect…

Take your brothers and your sisters for a roll in the mud
Bring your mothers and your fathers too
Soon the whole wide world
Is swingin’ with the swine
And playin’ like the piggies do

Show a little respect…

Don't Look Back
(c)2000 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

Just stay on track, Jack. Don't you look back.
If you look down now you'll have a heart attack
And pick up the slack, Jack. You're the leader of the pack.
Ain't over 'til it's over 'til it fades to black, Jack.

Well, listen to me now, you got something to do
The sky it may be gray, but soon it will be blue
If you keep on climbin' then you'll see
You can change your world, your reality

So just stay on track…

Well, you can see those clouds hangin' over you
You can rise above, yeah, you can climb on through
You know the sky's no limit, there ain't no such thing
When you lift yourself to your highest dream

When you stay on track…

Down by the Riverside

I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside
I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside, down by the riverside

I ain't gonna study war no more (6x)

 

 

 

Down by the Station

(c)1992, Adapted by Judy and David Gershon (SOCAN)

When I was a little boy I used to play with trains
I liked them more than bicycles, I like them more than planes
I never wanted fortune, I never wanted fame
All I ever wanted was to be a choo-choo train

Down by the station early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies all in a row
See the station master turn the little handle
Puff puff, toot toot, off we go.
(repeats)

 

Ducks in Trucks
(c)2000 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

Uh-huh, Uh-huh
Uh-huh, Uh-huh
Uh-huh, Uh-huh

I can't believe my eyes. They're playin' tricks on me
Did I just see what I think I did see?
Drivin' an 18-wheeler down the open road
Was a little yellow duck, pullin' a heavy load

Ducks (tough ducks)
In trucks (big trucks)
Ducks in Trucks. Uh-huh.

I saw a gofer once with braces on his teath
I saw a little tiny monkey watching the TV
I saw a seal clap his hands and a horse who tapped his feet
But nothing could prepare me for this curiosity

Ducks...

Little webbed feet on a black leather seat, uh-huh
It defies all reason, it’s not even ducky season, uh-huh
But I think I heard a quack and it’s comin’ from that mack

Ducks...

Dudley Diggins
(c)2004 All Together Now Entertainment Inc.
Words and Music by Judy and David Gershon

10, 20, 30 that’s what he said, 40, 50, 60 lyin’ in his bed
70, 80, 90 at work or at play
He counts by 10s every hour of the day

He is a dime collector (Dudley Diggins)
The dime collector (Dudley Diggins)
He counts by 10s, let me say it again
He’s Dudley Diggins the dime collector

He’s got four dimes in his hand, 10-20-30-40 cents
Two more in his coat, 50-60 ladies & gents
Four dimes in his shoe, 70-80 cents, wow
90 and 100 and he’s got a dollar now

10, 20, 30 cents, 40, 50, 60 cents
70, 80, 90 cents, a dollar, that’s 100 cents

People laugh at Dudley say he’s wasting his time
But Dudley doesn’t care.
He just keeps saving every dime
10, 20, 30, oh you’d better be prepared
10 million dimes later he will be a millionaire