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All Kinds of You and Me

by Alastair Moock

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1.
I know a boy who feels his best in a big pink hat and a blue sundress Pouring tea for his good friend, Jess, laughing a lot, making a mess I know a girl who climbs tall trees, falls a lot and scrapes her knees Runs as fast as the fastest breeze, loves worms but she’s scared of bees Chorus: It’s me, It’s you, It’s us, It’s true It’s life, it’s fine, it takes all kinds I know a cat who loves to ski, stares for hours at a blank tv Cares for pears and a nice Chablis, lifts her leg when she has to pee I know a dog who oinks like a pig, wears thick glasses and a curly wig Won’t sit or beg or fetch a twig, say “come,” he’ll stay, say “zag,” he’ll zig Chorus I know a plant who wears tap shoes, can’t find her feet but I swear she moves The other plants all disapprove, they say dancing is plant taboo But you’ve gotta be who you’ve gotta be, a dancing plant or a cat who skis A boy in a dress, a girl in a tree, you be you, I’ll be me Chorus We live, we love, we laugh, we cry, we sleep, we shout, we wonder why We hurry, worry, sit and sigh, we never notice life go by We come in every shape and size, we live all different kinds of lives We’re seldom wise to criticize cuz every life’s a kind of prize Chorus
2.
People, people, people you meet Look at all the people walking down the street Some are grumpy, some are sweet Some like bananas, others like beets People people everywhere Tall people, bald people, people with hair People who ride in a big wheelchair So many different people, it’s hard not to stare Cuz some are big, some are tiny Some are dirty and some are shiny Some people think they're better than most Some like to eat peanut butter and toast Some have a bird they like to feed Some like to help other people in need And some like to make up songs about People, people, people you meet Look at all the people walking down the street Everybody's different and that's pretty neat We're all just people walking People talking People walking down the street Some people walk in a very straight line Some people swerve and take their time Some people dance to the beat of a drum Some sing the lyrics, others just hum Some walk goofy, some walk proud Some walk softly, some walk loud And some like to sing out songs about People, people, people you meet Look at all the people walking down the street Everybody's different and that's pretty neat We're all just people walking People talking People walking down the street
3.
Are you messy? Are you clean? Are you somewhere in between? Are there grass stains on your pants or on your skirt? Do you pour tea for your dolls? Do you prefer to throw a ball? Are there spaceships on your very favorite shirt? Are you really good at math? Do you hate to take a bath? Is your favorite thing to dance around and twirl? If some of this is true It’s possible that you might be a girl Do you like horses or fast trains furry kittens, air-o-planes? Do you want to be a doctor or a nurse? Do you really love to sing? Is your very favorite thing A pinecone that you keep inside your purse? Are you tougher than a nail? Is there beach sand in your pail? Do you like your hair cut short or kept in curls? If your clothes are pink or blue It’s possible that you might be a girl Let’s say it loud Let’s say it clear There’s nothing wrong with liking what you like Or what you have to say Somebody mean Might call you weird But people only say those things because they are afraid of... Young women who are brave Who like soccer and ballet Who like to have their say and to be heard Of girls who think its cool To like books and costume jewels Who’ll be athletes, mothers and computer nerds Who can play any instrument Or be the president Who’ll show us how to make a better world No matter what you want to do It’s possible for you when you’re a girl
4.
My parents don’t like how I eat Cuz there’s food all over my face And the floor and the cat, but I’m working on that I’m improving at a gradual pace And my parents don’t like how I talk Cuz I tend to say things quite loud I may yell and shout but, hey, what about Those things I do you should be proud of I haven’t jumped off of the roof yet I haven’t drawn on the walls now in days My lack of tattoos should come as good news But it never seems to get any praise The fires I’ve caused have been small ones And most of them quickly extinguished And though you may not care for the mud in my hair I think it makes me look distinguished Chorus: Oh, why can’t you look at the good stuff There are so many good things I do If you would look on the bright side of me I’d look on the bright side of you Sure, my face is a mess when I’m eating But my napkin is always quite clean And why not use my pants to wipe my hands? They’re going in the washing machine There are many things that I haven’t broken Including this part of my arm That box of eggs, my sister’s legs And the cat’s come to no major harm (yet) Chorus There are two sides to every coin and story There’s a right side and a left side of the street The bright side of the moon is the side that we all see Why not look on the bright side of me? I’ve never attacked a foreign country Or caused the spread of a major disease In fact, if you remember, one time last December I covered my mouth when I sneezed I know that I haven’t been perfect But let’s just agree to agree That I will look on the bright side of you And you’ll look on the bright side of me Chorus: Oh, let’s all look at the good stuff There are so many good things we do If you would look on the bright side of me I’d look on the bright side of you
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In July I start to make my list for Christmas And of course I make my plans for New Year’s Day October’s when I dye my eggs for Easter My whole year is a great big holiday August means it’s time to find my dreidel It takes practice if you’re gonna get that gelt And I go outside to make myself a snowman But the snowballs I’ve been saving always melt Chorus: Every day's a holiday, at least it could be Every day's a holiday, I wish it would be Every day's a holiday, I think it should be Every day's a holiday for me In December, May Day’s just around the corner And Flag Day’s gonna be here awfully soon Flag Day means it’s time to pick my costume Cuz Halloween, for me, begins in June Chorus A holiday for me - oowee! A holiday for you - woohoo! When the party’s over don’t be so blue There’s always one around the bend You can look forward to Some grownups live like every day’s a burden They look forward to when holidays are done I think that they could learn something from children Who know that holidays make life more fun Chorus
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My dads are loving, my dads are kind My dads get on my nerves sometimes My life is a lot like yours My dads are good huggers, they kiss me good night They read me a story, then they turn out the light My life is a lot like yours My life is a lot like yours I laugh and cry and sometimes slam the door But I can feel the love surrounding me I’m part of a loving family My moms are loving, my moms are kind My moms get on my nerves sometimes My life is a lot like yours My moms are good huggers, they kiss me good night They read me a story, then they turn out the light My life is a lot like yours My life is a lot like yours I laugh and cry and sometimes slam the door But I can feel the love surrounding me I’m part of a loving family My mom and dad are loving, my mom and dad are kind My mom and dad get on my nerves sometimes My life is a lot like yours My parents are good huggers, they kiss me good night They read me a story, then they turn out the light My life is a lot like yours My life is a lot like yours I laugh and cry and sometimes slam the door But I can feel the love surrounding me I’m part of a loving family
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‘Til every child can go to school I am Malala, you are Malala too ‘Til freedom peace and justice rule I am Malala, you are Malala too Chorus: I am Malala til the sun has shone ‘Til dignity and truth are known I am Malala til the day is new I am Malala, you are Malala too One among many raising up my voice I am Malala, you are Malala too Speaking for all the girls and boys I am Malala, you are Malala too Chorus I raise up my voice for an equal chance To live and learn and grow To be who I want to be and explore The things I want to know Malalalala Malalala I am Malala, you are Malala too Malalalala Malalala I am Malala, you are Malala too Chorus
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People in China and South Sudan Ecuador, East Timor, Pakistan South of the Equator and up above Everybody needs to feel some love Vietnam, Swaziland, Greece, Bahrain Everybody, everywhere feels the same Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.A. Everybody needs some love today Take a little look around this great big globe People aren’t so different anywhere you go Everywhere you travel ‘round this place we live There’s love to take and love to give Kenya, maybe, yes you can Imagine somebody in a foreign land Look in their eyes and you’ll see with your own That nobody nowhere wants to be alone Iran, Iraq, I know for a fact There’s love in everybody: white, brown or black Whether Uruguay or you’re a girl People need love all around the world Take a little look up at the evening stars It’s helpful to remember just how small we are What on earth are we here to do If not to feel some love and to spread some too? Everywhere the story is about the same Whatever you call it, the name of the game Is love, love, love, love Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love Everybody, everybody needs to love Everybody wants to feels some love So Bangladesh, bang the drum Feel the love wherever you’re from Congo, let’s go, come on Qatar Spread some love wherever you are Kuwait, don’t wait Hey Fiji, feel me Georgia, on my mind Come on India water’s fine Jah love Jamaica Oman, c’mon Malaysia U.S. and Russia There’s Norway this love won’t touch ya Arriba, Arriba, Aruba Make a Congo line in Cuba Feel the love, love, love, love, love, love, love Everybody, everybody wants to love
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There’s something different about today Everything’s upside-down but me If I didn’t know better, I'd have to say Everything’s upside-down but me I’m lying here in this easy chair Everything’s upside-down but me Wondering how the floor got way down there Everything’s upside-down but me Wondering how this chair came to cling Everything’s upside-down but me Upside down from the ceiling Oh everything I can see Is defying the laws of gravity How’m I gonna get around When the world’s turned upside down? Well I obviously can’t take a bath Everything’s upside-down but me I shouldn’t have to say why, please don’t ask Everything’s upside-down but me And it’s gonna get messy when we eat Everything’s upside-down but me I’ve never held a fork between my feet Everything’s upside-down but me And when you say clean-up that mess Everything’s upside-down but me I’ll have to clean it down I guess Oh everything I can see Is defying the laws of gravity Can I be the only one looking down to see the sun? When I jump down and cross the floor Everything’s upside-down but me I better watch out when I reach the door Everything’s upside-down but me ‘Cuz the drop outside there’s pretty steep Everything’s upside-down but me ‘Fact you’ve never seen a drop that deep Everything’s upside-down but me If you step out there you’d disappear Everything’s upside-down but me Hmm… On second thought, I’ll stay right here Oh everything I can see Is defying the laws of gravity Sure is a mystery Everything’s upside down but me
10.
A day is a perfect piece of time To live a life, plant a seed Watch the sun go by A day starts early Work to do Beneath a brand new sky A day brings hope And flowers too A day is all its own You can make a wish And start again You can find your way back home All in a day (4x) Every bird and every tree and every living thing loves the promise in a day loves what it can bring There is a faith in the morningtime there is belief in noon Evening will come whispering and shine a bright round moon All in a day (4x) A day can change just everything given half a chance Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance The past is sailing off to sea The future's fast asleep A day is all you have to be its all you get to keep Underneath that great big sky the earth is all a-spin This day will soon be over and it won't come back again So live it well, make it count, fill it up with you The day's all yours, it's waiting now... See what you can do All in a day (4x)
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You And Me 02:53
When I was a kid my parents gave to me An album called Free to Be… You and Me A long title, no doubt But it was worthy The album was all about Boys and girls and me and you It said we could do what we wanted to A girl could be a doctor or drive a fire truck A girl could be bold And if a boy needed to cry, he could More than that, he should Just let it flow Said Rosie Grier with his guitar A football star You believed it when he told you so I loved that album It was funny and true Full of stories and skits Songs that spoke to me Maybe your parents too It reminded me of another song I knew That said this land was made for you And me A song about our country It was written by Woody Guthrie Woody believed this country is ours Its mountains and its prairie flowers But with its beauty, he believed Comes responsibility To fix what we know is wrong To stand up for what we know is right To fight Poverty and bigotry And make this country better Every day You see, I believe that too With all my soul There’s so much you and I can do To make this world a better place To open up the gates And let our love shine through Woody, Pete Seeger, Dr. King They showed us all a path And every generation brings New energy, new songs to sing To walk the trail and guide em Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, Cesar Chavez This country was built By leaders, dreamers, Foolish believers People who saw a better day ahead We learn from them and pass it on And maybe go a bit beyond For, as we climb the ladder The truth becomes more plain each day What matters Is not the color of your skin Or the body you were born in It’s not what you look like or your religion Or whether you’re a man or woman It’s not who you may love That’s up to you Because This land was made for you And me And each of us is free to be Ourselves
12.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me Chorus This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of your diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me Chorus The sun came shining, and I was strolling The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling As the fog was lifting, a voice was chanting This land was made for you and me Chorus As I went walking, I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing" But on the other side it didn't say nothing That side was made for you and me Chorus In the square of the city, in the shadow of the steeple By the relief office, I seen my people As they stood there hungry, I stood there wondering Is this land really made for you and me? Chorus Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking that freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land was made for you and me Chorus x2

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2015 Parents' Choice Gold Medal
2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal
2015 ASCAP Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award
2015 Fids & Kamily Industry Poll #2 Album of the Year

"This is everything children's music can and should be."
-Parents' Choice

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"All Kinds of You and Me" is largely inspired by Marlo Thomas’ landmark 1972 album "Free To Be… You and Me." For that groundbreaking release, Thomas gathered musical friends to celebrate individuality, tolerance, and changing cultural ideas about gender roles. Moock’s new album builds on those themes, reflecting on gender, ethnicity, and identity today, as well as the evolving concept of family in America. Says Moock, “Free To Be was a huge album for me and so many other kids of the 70s. Forty years later, it felt like the right time both to pay tribute to that amazing project and to try to push beyond some of the limitations of its era.”

Indeed, bright and soulful songs like “It Takes All Kinds” and “My Life Is a Lot Like Yours” tread paths that would have been unthinkable in 1972, but are entirely kid-friendly in 2015. On the penultimate poem-song track “You and Me,” Moock talks about his experiences with Thomas’s album, and then introduces the social justice work of Dr. King, Harvey Milk, Gloria Steinem, and others, as well as the pioneering activist music of his boyhood hero, Woody Guthrie. The track leads into a rousing rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” to close the album.

Like Thomas, Moock gathers an impressive group of musical friends to contribute to "All Kinds of You and Me," including Rani Arbo (of Daisy Mayhem fame), producer Anand Nayak (who frequently performs with Moock, Arbo, and Stevesongs), Jennifer Kimball (of The Story / Jonatha Brooke), Samirah Evans, Debbie Lan, and Mark Erelli. The colorful album cover art was created by Key Wilde, himself an award-winning “kindie” music artist and illustrator.

Alastair Moock is a 2014 Grammy Nominee, Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner, and three-time National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Gold Award Winner. The Boston Globe calls him calls him "one of the town's best and most adventurous songwriters" and Time Out New York calls him "a musical descendant of Woody Guthrie who refreshes the classic brand of acoustic folk with a zany sense of humor.”

Moock’s musical career has always been deeply entwined with his passion for education and social action. His previous release, the 2014 Grammy-nominated children’s album "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids," was created as a free resource for families struggling with childhood illness. Born of Moock’s own daughter’s battle with leukemia (she’s doing great today), the album has been distributed to nearly 3,000 patient families, and Alastair and his band have performed at hospitals and cancer organizations around the country. Moock has also spearheaded fundraising shows and campaigns for organizations as diverse as GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders), The United Way, The Mass Literacy Foundation, and multiple political campaigns and community outreach programs.

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released June 19, 2015

Alastair Moock – vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo (12)
Anand Nayak – electric guitars, acoustic guitars (2, 10, 11), mandolin (5), vibraphone, additional percussion, background vocals and arrangements
Jamie Walker – mandolin, electric guitar (9, 10)
Paul Kochanski – upright and electric bass, additional vocals
Scott Kessel – drums, percussion, additional vocals

With
Donn Scott Shetler – saxophone, clarinet, horn arrangements
John Moriconi – trumpet, flugelhorn
Dave Russo – plectrum banjo
Alan Kaufman – fiddle, yodeling
Jim Gambino – Hammond B3

And Special Guests
Rani Arbo – vocals (1, 2, 4, 9)
Jennifer Kimball – vocals (5, 6, 8, 12)
Samirah Evans – vocals (3)
Debbie Lan – vocals and piano (7)
Mark Erelli – vocals (12), harmonica

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Produced by
Anand Nayak

Recorded & Mixed by
Chris Rival at Middleville Studio, North Reading, MA

Mastered by
Ian Kennedy at New Alliance East, Cambridge, MA

Design by
Lori Salmeri

Illustrations by
Key Wilde

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A 2013 Grammy Nominee and two-time Parents' Choice Gold Medal Winner, Alastair Moock makes music for the whole family: kids, parents, even discerning pets. Long one of Boston’s premier folk artists, Alastair turned his attention to family music after the birth of his twin daughters in 2006. The Boston Globe calls him “one of the town's best and most adventurous songwriters." ... more

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