Recycle Rap
By Dana Lyons
 

Chorus:    Recycle, Recycle, Rip-Rip Recycle
              Recycle cans, Recycle glass
              Recycle at home, Recycle in class
              Reduce your garbage of every kind
              Reuse everything, reuse your Mind
              Recycle, Recycle, Rip-Rip Recycle

 I was walking down the beach on top of the world
When I met the eyes of a beautiful girl
 I walked up to her and asked her her name
 As I threw my soda in the garbage can
 She said, “Hey man, what’d you do that for?
 When you throw things awya, we got to make more!”
 Reduce, reuse, again and again
 That’s the only way you’re gonna be my friend

Chorus

Well I felt a little pale and I felt a little thinner
So I said “Hey recycling girl, how ‘bout some dinner?”
She said “I’m in a vegetarian mood, I feel like a little vegetarian fast food.”
 I said “I know the perfect place for you, they got veggies burgers
 with a slice of tofu.”
 But when the man at the counter said “plastic or paper?
” Recycling girl said “We don’t want neither!”
 Reduce, Duce, Duce, Duce, Duce
Reduce, Duce, Duce, Duce, Duce
Then she pulled out her own plate and a mug
Said to the man “Hey, fill this up--I want a soy milk shake with a lot of banana”
 “And a napkin for me!” she said “Use your bandana!!”

Chorus

So I said “Hey recycling girl, lets talk about love”
 She said “First I think you better join my club”
 There’s a club for the dolphins, a club for the trees
A club for the birds and a club for the bees
 If you want to stick with me you got to be a doer

You can’t drink the water when the river is sewer
You get nothing done just sittin’ in the bleachers
You got play hard to save the other creatures
‘Cause the earth is our home, the earth is our mother
 Yes I’m talking to you sisters and I’m talking to you brothers
If you want a healthy place to meet a boy or girl
You gotta dane, recycle, work to save the world
Recycle, Recycle, Rip-Rip Recycle!!!