This song is available on Birdsong and the Eco-Wonder's album If I Were A Fish
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I asked my friends, the dolphins, what each of us could do
To help them survive another million years or two.
And the dolphins said:
Chorus
“Keep the ocean clean! That’s the most important thing.
Please . . .
Pick your trash up off the beach.
Recycle your plastic bags.
Find out what pollutes the sea.
And ask your friends to help keep the ocean clean.
After all, the ocean is our home,” said:
(my friends the dolphins) (the fascinating sharks, oh yeah)
After the all the ocean is our home.
I asked the fascinating sharks what each of us could do
To help them survive another million years or two.
And the pointy snouted blue and the hammerhead too said:
“You know what to do, you know what to do.
You know what to do!”
Chorus
A fancy dancing forest of seaweed.
“Imagine,” said the sea turtle, “That you’re as hungry as can be.”
Well a plastic bag floating by looks a lot like a sea jelly.”
(And sea turtles love sea jellies!)
“But swallowing a plastic bag would be the end of me.
So please keep all kinds of plastic out of the sea.”
“Keep…it…clean…please!”
Final Chorus
“Keep the ocean clean! That’s the most important thing.
Please . . .
Pick your trash up off the beach.
Recycle your plastic bags.
Find out what pollutes the sea.
And ask your friends to help keep the ocean clean,
After all, the ocean is our home,” said the hungry sea turtles.
“After the all the ocean is our home,” said the whales and
the fish and the sea otter and the tide pool creatures.
“After all, the ocean is our home,” said the seals and
the sea lions and the walruses and Oxford the Octopus.
“After all, the ocean is our home.
After all, the ocean is our home.”
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