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Open Up the Coconut

from Ready to Fly by Roger Day

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lyrics

OPEN UP THE COCONUT
Words & Music © 2001 Roger Day (All Rights Reserved)
From the CD Ready to Fly available at RogerDay.com

You can kick it with your foot. You can throw it at the wall
You can smash it on the ceiling if you’re ten feet tall
Roll it off the roof underneath your Daddy’s car
Gorilla’s do it all the time it can’t be hard

CHORUS
We gotta open up the coconut
We gotta open up the coconut
Everybody listen up - We gotta open up the coconut

You can put it on a trampoline and bounce it to the sky
Hit it with a bat then catch on the fly
Give it a karate chop that’s what my brother said
But don’t listen when he tells you can hit it with your head

CHORUS

You can let your cat scratch it. You can throw it to your dog
You can leave it to the termites living underneath the log
Stab it with your fork. Beat it with your spoon
Bomb it with a great big water balloon

CHORUS

You can put it in a barrel heading for Niagra falls
Give it to the Titans when they play football
Drop it from a ladder saw it in half
Rub it underneath your arms till everybody laughs!

CHORUS

You can take it to the Everglades and sink it in the swamp
Let an Alligator eat it with his Alligator chomp
Crush it with a wrecking ball (Maybe that’s too much!)
And if you break your leg - you can beat it with your crutch

CHORUS

You can strap it to a rocket ship and send it the moon
You can shoot it from a cannon going BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

You can load it in a catapult to scare the Visigoths
Hide it in your sweater till it’s eaten by the moths

CHORUS

You can throw it from a helicopter down into the sea
Let the swordfish serve it to the Manatee
Find the nearest elephant and say “For Goodness Sake”
Won’t you sit down on my coconut until the shell breaks?!”

CHORUS

You can swing your favorite hammer down upon a penny nail
That’s what my teacher told me and she says it never fails
You get a crack started then you pull it open wide
Now everybody’s eating up the Coconut inside!

CHORUS X2

Everybody open up the coconut
Everybody open up the coconut

credits

from Ready to Fly, released May 1, 2001
Long a favorite at Roger's live shows, "Open Up the Coconut" is the more or less true story of how Roger tried to explain to his kids the creative ways to "Open Up the Coconut" before they finally set him straight.

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Roger Day Franklin, Tennessee

From his first job as a camp counselor to his current jam-packed concert schedule, ROGER DAY has been writing and performing, smart, interactive music that encourages kids and adults alike to SING LOUD, JUMP HIGH AND DREAM BIG! His newest CD INVINCIBLE! will help families everywhere SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND SAVE THE DAY! ... more

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