Inchworm

A deceptively simple little song by Frank Loesser that he wrote along with Thumbelina and Wonderful Copenhagen for the movie Hans Christian Andersen starring Danny Kaye in 1952. Paul McCartney covered it for his recent album Kisses On The Bottom

Other songs he wrote? What Are You Doing New Years Eve?,  On a Slow Boat to China and the xmas favourite: Baby, It's Cold Outside (he won an Oscar for that).

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Two and two are four
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Four and four are eight
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Eight and eight are sixteen
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Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two

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Inchworm, inchworm
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Measuring the marigolds
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You and your arithmetic
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You'll probably go far

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Inchworm, inchworm
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Measuring the marigolds
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Seems to me you'd stop and see
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How beautiful they are

Bein' Green

A classic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZxxHbJGbY (Kermit)
Even Van Morrison covered it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3L9P4RlrjQ

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It's not easy bein' green
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Having to spend each day
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The color of the leaves
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When I think it could be nicer
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Bein' red or yellow or gold
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Or something much more colorful like that

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It's not easy bein' green
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It seems you blend in
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With so many other ordinary things
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And people tend to pass you over
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'Cause you're not standing out
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Like flashy sparkles on the water
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Or stars in the sky

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But green's the color of spring
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And green can be cool and friendly like
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And green can be big like an ocean
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 Or important like a mountain or tall like a tree

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When green is all there is to be
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It could make you wonder why
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But, why wonder, why wonder?
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I'm green and it'll do fine
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It's beautiful and I think it's what I want to be

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Susanne was a friend who'd committed suicide. There's a lot of pain in this one though written when Taylor was only 22. I mean, what's Taylor Swift got to complain about compared to that!

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/firerain.asp

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Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
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Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
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I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
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I just can't remember who to send it to

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I've seen fire and          I've seen rain I seen sunny days that I thought would never end
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 I saw lonely times when I could not find a friend
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But I always thought that I'd see you again

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Won't you look down upon me Jesus you got to help me make a stand
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You just got to see me through another day
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My bodies aching and my time is at hand
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An' I won't make it any other way

(chorus)

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Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun
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Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn you head around
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Well there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come
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Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
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