TEACHERS’ RESOURCE MATERIAL
FOR RICK SCOTT’S MAKING FACES
Lyrics for the MAKING FACES album can be found at
http://www.bestchildrensmusic.com/lyrc_mf.htm
MAKING FACES by Rick Scott
Every day I do my exercises, not the way you think
I do them in the bathroom in the mirror over the sink
I brush my teeth, I wash my face and then I comb my hair
‘til I look like someone just like me and then I start to stare
I move my lip just a little bit, put my eyebrows in the air
I can’t wait to see all the faces I can be
Come on now, it’s your turn, let’s see you make a face...
Let’s see HAPPY, now let’s see SAD
well let’s be SILLY, now let’s get MAD
you get SUSPICIOUS, you find a CLUE
I’m so amazed at all the funny things your face can do
but what’s amazing is I can do them too
oh oh oh I can do them too
I make a face at any time or any place
CHORUS:
BooBideeoopBoopBahDahBooBideeoopBoopBah
BooBideeoopBoopBahDahBeeBooBah
BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyHo BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyAyAy
BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyHoAyHoOhwoOowo
You can do them too!
My doctor says that everyone has muscles in their face
there are quite a few of them in one small rounded place
It takes 8 to make a SMILE, 16 to make a FROWN
4 to blink and two to WINK, 5 to get your EYEBROWS UP and DOWN
I have a hunch it takes a BUNCH to SCRUNCH your nose
I can’t wait to see all the faces I can be
All right, let’s pretend this is the facial aerobic Olympics
and we represent Canada... HOORAY!
Now let’s be SERIOUS, now be a GOOF
now let’s get CURIOUS, let’s act ALOOF
now take a MOUTHFUL, let’s see you CHEW
I’m so amazed at all the funny things my face can do
and what’s amazing is you can do them too
oh oh oh you can do them too
you make a face at any time or any place
REPEAT CHORUS
BooBideeoopBoopBahDah...
COME ON, MAKE A GREAT BIG FACE!
MAKING FACES FACTS, GAMES AND EXERCISES
DID YOU KNOW…
*Making faces is actually good for your face muscles!
*That’s Rick’s real face on the cover of MAKING FACES, not a computer animation!
*Rick’s family doctor told him the facial muscle statistics in verse two. Notice is takes less
muscles to smile than to frown!
GAMES:
Have a Face Off in your class to see who can make or draw the funniest face.
Have someone stand in front of the class making faces while everyone guesses the
emotion or feeling. Divide into teams and take turns making the faces that Rick calls out in
the song. Don’t lose face by laughing.
CALLIGRAPHY
Rick loves calligoraphy which means fancy penmanship or decorative writing. He hand
wrote the words which describe the faces he’s making, and tried to make the words look like
the meaning. Try writing HAPPY, SAD and MAD in your own special way so the word looks
like the feeling. Take a look at all the different titles for the songs on the CD that Rick drew
as calligraphy, especially DON’T KNOW BLUES, PURPLE ELEPHANT and YO MO
CONCERTO.
INTERNET EXERCISE - GURNING
“Gurning” is another word for making faces. In Cumbria, England, each year they hold
GURNING competitions to see who can make the ugliest face. Entrants contort their faces
into grotesque shapes while wearing a horse collar. Find out more about GURNING at Ben
& Jerry's Ice cream site at http://www.benjerry.co.uk/gurning/gurners.htm or at
the BBC site http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/uk/newsid_451000/451253.stm
VOCABULARY – Describe the meaning of the following in words then with your face:
Suspicious
Clue
Blink
Wink
Scrunch
Aloof
THE YO MO CONCERTO
by Rick Scott, Valerie Hennell, Harris Van Berkel and Wolfgang Mozart
Mozart’s “MARCH”
1. In 1756 the music they were digging was a classical trip
people writing songs they were calling compositions
when someone came along and changed the situation
he was a kid, he was smart, he was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Huh? Yo! What kind of a name is Wolfgang anyway?)
The first time he stepped on the stage he was a rage
he played the violin not looking at the page
everybody said he was a musical sage (Listen up! What?)
did I tell you 'bout his *age? He was six! Dig it!
YO! MO! COME ON, AMADEUS, WHAT YOU GONNA PLAY US?
Mozart’s “EINE KLEINE”
2. By the age of fourteen he was hot on the scene
doing his musical thing for kings and queens
he took a boat to meet the Pope
note for note he was writing, he was playing
piano, orchestra, string quartet, opera, aria - he was the best
play it with a horn, he could play it with a flute
do a string thing or sing (Forsooth!)
and everywhere he's playing people would be saying
YO! MO! COME ON, AMADEUS, WHAT YOU GONNA PLAY US?
Mozart’s “STRING QUARTET”
3. Now times have changed, the music has too
but Mozart's art is still shining through
what I want to say is, what if Amadeus were alive to play us
a song right here right now (Right on! Right on!)
would it be hip hop, rap or reggae, punk or pop?
would he be like you and me, would be want to play with me?
(On what?) On Rick Around the Rock!
YO! MO! COME ON, AMADEUS, WHAT YOU GONNA PLAY US?
Mozart’s “EINE KLEINE”
Hey, Wolfgang, we know you are a star
but now it’s time to play it on guitar! “EINE KLEINE”
YO MO! COME ON AMADEUS…
Mozart’s “MARCH”
YO MO CONCERTO
This rap song about Mozart is Rick’s most requested composition around the world. Rick wrote
YO MO for a Vancouver Symphony program introducing Mozart to young audiences. He
originally released it in 1992 on his “Rick Around The Rock” cassette and recorded an updated
version for “Making Faces.” Two of Rick’s sons-- Jorg (a trapeze instructor) and Michael (an
arts administrato)r perform on this version as part of Rick’s ‘posse’ of background singers..
QUESTIONS:
1. What century did Mozart live in?
2. How old was Mozart when he started performing?
3. Why did they call Mozart “Amadeus”?
4. What is a concerto?
5. What is the principal instrument used in the rap portion of YO MO CONCERTO?
6. Is this song truly a concerto?
7. What are the names of the Mozart excerpts used in this song?
8. What important people were in Mozart's audiences?
9. What instruments did Mozart write for?
10. What modern instrument plays Mozart's music at the end of YO MO?
ANSWERS:
1. In the eighteenth century. Mozart was born in 1756.
2. Six years old.
3. Amadeus was Mozart’s middle name.
4. A concerto is a musical composition, usually in a symphonic form, written for one
principal instrument, with accompaniment for a full orchestra.
5. The drums.
6. Rick is exercising poetic license when he calls this song a concerto. He liked the fact that "Yo
Mo" and "Concerto" rhyme. When sounds rhyme within a phrase or a line, it is called internal
rhyme.
7. Mozart March, String Quartet in D Minor, and Eine Kleine Nacht Music.
8. Kings, Queens and the Pope. Mozart often played for royalty in their courts around Europe.
He also went to Italy to perform for the Pope.
9. Piano, string quartet, horn, flute, full orchestra and voice (opera, aria).
10. Electric guitar
KITTY COW
by Rick Scott and Valerie Hennell
I think cows are funny, how about you?
I just laugh myself in half over everything that’s moo.
after all what’s a meadow for
if not for cows to graze?
furry brown containers
that make milk out of hay
Mozart’s
“EINE KLEINE
MOO MUSIC”
I think kitty cats are funny, how about you?
chasing strings and imaginary things
always with a-mew-mew-muse-ment
they’re from ancient Egypt
so they know better than you
soft as a pillow, hiding in the willow
always drinking moo juice
Johann Strauss’
“MOO DANUBE”
I think humans are funny, how about you?
‘cause they can go around and make any old sound like
DOO-WACKA-DOO-WACKA-DOO-WACKADOO-WACKA-DOO
but they always fight about wrong and right
well let’s just change that tune
and sing this song ‘til the cat comes back
and the cow jumps over the moon
Rick Scott’s
“KITTY COW PARADE”
KITTY COW
FIGURES OF SPEECH
PUN: Humorous use of words or phrases that sound alike but have different meanings.
Example: “meadow for” and “metaphor”
METAPHOR: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared NOTusing ‘like’ or ‘as’
Example: “Furry Brown containers that make milk out of hay.”
SIMILE: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
ONOMATAPOEIA: A word which imitates the sound it is making.
Example: “Moo” “a-mew-mew-muse-ment” “doo-wacka-doo” “Quack”
Note the use of mew in “a-mew-mew-muse-ment
PERSONIFICATION
EXCLAMATION: Loud complaint of protest “Shut up over there!”
INTERJECTION: A word or phrase expressive of emotion, usually grammatically isolated.
Example: “Shut up over there!
ALLITERATION
HOMONYM
SYNONYM
BREWERY CREEEK
by Rick Scott and Valerie Hennell
Once by my house ran a beautiful creek
it got covered by the city, the steel and concrete
now it runs underground and that just isn’t right
so my friends and I want to bring it up to daylight
CHORUS:
Brewery Creek runs underground
so far down it can’t be found
I don’t know but I believe that’s not how it wants to be
the poet tries to write it but my friends all say
daylight it, day-ay-light it, day-ay-light it
Brewery Creek ran by my door, it does not run there anymore
not that someone made it stop, they just built that city right on top
I got to worrying late at night, Brewery Creek are you alright?
then way down, way down, thought I heard that gurgling sound
Repeat CHORUS:
Brewery Creek runs underground...
Now way back not so long ago
you should have seen that old creek flow
finest playground you could wish
soak your toe or swim or fish
and just a little way upstream a building with a big machine
took that water drop by drop and turned it into soda pop
You take Brewery Creek and add vanill
fizz it up with sarsaparilla
finest drink in all this land.
What’s that called? Red Hand Brand!
we drank that soda all over town
and then they shut that brewery down
way down, way down, thought I heard that gurgling sound
Repeat CHORUS:
Brewery Creek runs underground...
Well the creek is gone but not for long
and that is why I sing this song!
BRING IT UP!
This is a true story about a waterway called Brewery Creek that runs under Rick’s office building
in Vancouver. More than a century ago, what today is a major intersection like Broadway and
Cambie, was surrounded by trees and ferns and had streams full of salmon. some of the very
first factories in Mount Pleasant were built around Brewery Creek. As the city grew, the creek
was forced underground.
Brewery Creek go its name because of a Sasparilla Factory
The Brewery Creek Historical Society is dedicated to the commemorating and daylighting of
Brewery Creek.
The Environmental Youth Alliance has investigated historical, geographical and social feastures
of the Mount Pleasant and Strathcona neighbourhoods and depicted these on a series of maps
titled Unforgetting the Urban Environment.
Many steams in the downtown Vancouver area have been lost, lifeless because they
have been forced underground. Many of Vancouver's lost streams flowed in False Creek.
What today is a major intersection was once surrounded by trees and ferns, and had
streams full of salmon. Brewery Creek, one of the largest salmon-bearing streams, ran
into the Fraser. Today, this creek flows under the manholes at 31st Avenue (Waters).
The pavement and storm drains of Vancouver did not exist over a century ago, and
salmon runs now extirpated swam along today's busy city streets.
The Society is interested in the historiography and heritage values of the False Creek/Brewery
Creek/Tea Swamp watershed, and the urban development of the surrounding area. The Society
places high importance on the Brewery Creek system because the Creek was the first major source
of fresh water for Hastings Mill and adjoining Gastown, as well as for early Mount Pleasant. The
Mount Pleasant HARP program is pursuing a series of cast-bronze "cairn" monuments to mark the
course of the historic waterway. Two of these cairns are already in place, one at the south-east
corner of Main Street and Broadway, the other at Sixth Avenue and Scotia Street opposite the
conserved 1903 Doering/Marstrand Brewery Building -- now housing "live/work" units. Two more
cairns are on the way at the City's works yard on First Avenue. Membership is open to anyone
interested in the history and growth pattern of the City of Vancouver. Dues are under discussion,
but presently are $5.00 for individuals, $25.00 for organizations. Walking tours may be arranged on
request. Regular meetings are usually focused towards the last Thursday of each month, but
specific dates are fixed at each meeting.
The mandolin John Reischman is playing on this song was built in 1924 which is about
the year that Brewery Creek was buried. For more information on Brewery Creek visit
www.lesliefield.com.
SONG FOR AUSTRALIA
by Rick Scott
This humorous and fact filled introduction to Australia is based on all the curious
facts and phrases Rick knew about Australia before he toured there. He wrote
the song as a greeting to the new friends he hoped to make there.
CHORUS: Hi there, Down Under 1
I’m from above and a little bit over to the right
if you’re looking at a map of the whole world 2
I read a book about ants and you’re in it 3
you’ve got the oldest living ants on the planet
they’ve been around since the very first minutes of the world
here’s a funny fact: opposites attract 4
and here I am in front of you and your Outback 5
and if by some chance you like the part about the ants
well their real name is Nothomyrmecia
that’s Latin, it means ‘old ant’ 6
Repeat CHORUS
When we’ve got our winter you’re having summer 7
I talked to a friend of mine who happens to be a plumber
he said your water drains in an opposite direction kind of whirl
8
I had to go downtown to get a visa 9
it’s a piece of paper that I need to come to see you
I had to go to the Consulate 10 from your part of the world
the Consulate lady sat behind some bullet proof glass
and asked me all the questions that she had to ask
I was feeling kind of nervous but she said I had ‘no worries’ 11 in the world
Here’s a funny fact: opposites attract
and here I am in front of you and your Outback
and for this howdy-do I’d like to introduce to you
the Consulate lady, her name is Philomena 12
that’s her first name, I think that’s wonderful
Hi there - G’day G’day G’day, mate13
FOOTNOTES TO ‘SONG FOR AUSTRALIA’
1
Australia is both a country and a continent, located southeast of Asia between the
Pacific and Indian Oceans. Australia and New Zealand are called “Down Under”
because they are in the Southern Hemisphere. For more information on Australia see
http://www.australia-fare.com/AussieStuff.html
2
Find where you live on a map of the world. Find where Rick lives in Vancouver, BC,
Canada. Now following Rick’s instructions, find Australia. Did you know that in Australia
they have what we would consider an ‘upside down’ map of the world, with Australia at
the top? See http://www.australia-fare.com/Maps.html
Recommended Reading: “Journey To The Ants” by Bert Holldobbler and E.O. Wilson,
Harvard University Press. Richly illustrated, delightfully written, combines science and
autobiography. See http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HOLJOU.html
3
“Opposites attract” is a law of physics that states “oppositely charged bodies tend to
be drawn together by an electric or magnetic force that acts between them.”
4
5
Australia is a huge country of 2,948,366 square miles (7,636,270 sq kilometers.) Most
of its population of over 18 million live on or near the coast. The Outback is what they
call the remote middle part of the country or bushland where relatively few people live.
6
Nothomyrmecia is the Latin name for a species of very old ants found only in Australia.
See footnote 3 – “Journey To The Ants.”
7
In the Southern Hemisphere the seasons are reversed from those in North America.
Can you explain why?
8
In the Southern Hemisphere, water spirals down the drain in the opposite direction
from the Northern Hemisphere. This is called the Coriolis effect: “The apparent deflection
of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on earth, attributed
to the fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and
appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the
Sourthern Hemisphere.” An 8 year old boy in Sydney informed Rick that you can only
see the Coriolis effect in large bodies of water, not in your bathtub.
A “visa” is a written permit or passport stamp issued by an authorized representative of
a country to allow someone from another country to enter, visit or pass through.
9
10
A Consulate is the office of the Consul, an official appointed by the government of one
country to look after its interests and citizens in another country.
11
“No worries” is Australian for “no problem.”
12
Rick loves unusal names. He had never heard the name Philomena before though it is
quite common in Australia. Rick’s middle name is Gaston!
13
“G’day” is Australian for “hello.”