Little Pocket Mouse

A Pocket Mouse goes to Space!
Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders

This song is available on Birdsong and the Eco-Wonder's album Everything Is Connected.

Verse 1:
I’m small and furry, watch me scurry!
It's the middle of the night and I'm in a hurry
To gather seeds I like to eat
And store those seeds inside my cheeks.
I'm a little pocket mouse.
And when the sun begins to rise,
I find my tunnel and I crawl inside.
And there I hide the food I found
And rest all day 'til the sun goes down.
I'm a little pocket mouse.

CHORUS:
Pocket mouse, oh where's your house?
It's underground where I cannot be found. Oh no, no, no!
I'm a mouse who likes my privacy, so it came as a surprise to me
To learn I was a hero in the rodent family!

Verse 2:
It started in 1972
On a spaceship that went around moon.
Of all the animals smart and strong,
Who did the astronauts take along?
It was the Little Pocket Mouse!

With lots of food in their big cheek pockets,
Five of my cousins boarded that rocket.
Didn't know much about outer space,
But they were glad to help the human race.
The little pocket mouse!

Verse 3:
Thirty-five years after orbiting the moon,
The pocket mouse was back in the news
Because of a plan to build a road
Through a California park that was the home
Of the little pocket mouse.

SPOKEN:
"Wait a minute!", said one Little Pocket mouse,
"You can't build a freeway right through my house.
It would certainly cause quite a shock
To all of us mice who live in this park.

There's nowhere else for us to go
Where the grass and seeds we need to live grow.
And besides, we're endangered and very rare.
A freeway through our house?
Oh no, you would not dare!

Don't you remember how we helped the human race
By traveling with astronauts through outer space?
So won't you please now pay us the favor back
By helping us save our habitat?"
(Crowd shouts: “Listen to that mouse!)

Soon thousands of people listened to that mouse
And they stopped the plan to put a road through its house.
Hurray, hurray! Guess who saved the day
And helped that freeway go away?
It was the little pocket mouse!

CHORUS:

Verse 4:
There's a moral to this story you see:
That there's a lot of Eco-Wonder Heroes like me.
And each of us has a role to play,
And one of us might even save the day . . .
Like the little pocket mouse!
I’m a Little Pocket Mouse!
I’m a Little Pocket Mouse!
The Little Pocket Mouse!
“That’s me!”