Title:  you can make up a word

Composer:  Joe Raposo / Elaine Laron

Lead vocals:  Short Circus #1

Backing vocals:  none

Scene:  The kids dancing around on the street and making up words.

[SC]  You can make up a word.

Just think it up out of your head.

And you can decide what you want it to mean,

And how, and how it is said.

You can make up a word.

Your own private personal word.

And then all you do is just say it out loud,

And your word will be heard.

(IC invents “sploosh”.)

You can make up a word.

Just think it up out of your head.

And you can decide what you want it to mean,

And how, and how it is said.

(DG invents “flibble”.)

You can make up a word.

Just think it up out of your head.

And you can decide what you want it to mean,

And how, and how it is said.

(SG invents “glunk”.)

[IC]  You can make up a word.

You know how?  You just do it.  That’s how.

[MH]  And you can do it just any old time.

Like how ‘bout now?

[SC]  When you make up a word,

And tell what the word’s s’posed to do,

Then suddenly there’s a new word in the world,

And it came out of you.  Sploosh, flibble, glunk.

And it came out of you.  Sploosh, flibble, glunk.

And it came out of you.  Glunk!

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