"The Rainforest" is a Schoolhouse Rock! Earth song performed by Tituss Burgess. The song focuses on saving the rainforests in different ways.
Lyrics[]
Gonna take you to a place that's dark and green
A mysteriously seriously fabulous scene
A million kinds of creatures and a zillion trees
Swinging and a-zinging to the harmonies
It's dark down below where the sun can't go
Where they prowl and they growl and slither and grow
A forest full of motion with a cool refrain
It's the rainforest!
Here every living creature has a job to do
Giving shelter or recycling or providing food
They depend on one another for the things they need
A proper little tropical society
It's hot and it's wet and there's bugs and bats
But the trees and the creatures well, they like it like that
Connected to each other in a living chain
In the rainforest!
Going up. Forest Floor. Large animals. Forest recycling center. Understory Layer. And that's insects, frogs, and real big cats. Oh, watch your step. Canopy. Exotic birds and monkeys. Please don't feed the snakes. Emergent Layer. Eagles, bats and all things that fly.
Fly with me and see the forest waiting down below
Think of all the wonders deep within
If we cut these forests down as some have done, you know
Think of what we'd never have again!
So many ways the forests are important
They help protect the planet from global warming
They help produce the oxygen that we all breathe
They help provide the medicines that people need
Creatures call it shelter, tribes call it home
Think of what will happen if the forests were gone
Think of what we'd never have again!
Oh, we gotta show respect, gotta try to protect
Every plant, every ant, every weird insect
They're depending on each other whether large or small
At threat to even one endangers them all
We may live in a town or down a country lane
You may use an umbrella in the pouring rain
But we're all of us connected in a living chain
Do the rainforest!
We should defend it, yeah, we should befriend it
Because we're all dependent on the rainforest
We're all connected more than we expected
Lots to be protected in the rainforest
We should defend it, yeah, we should befriend it
Because we're all dependent on the rainforest
