Rock of All Ages

Words and music by John D Boydston III

I wanna write a little letter and talk about the rock I hear
I think it might have started with the Ride of Paul Revere
It’s the Rock of Ages, ain’t never gonna disappear

It’s a little bit of Be and a whole lot of Boppa Lula
Once your toes get a tappin’ a little bit won’t do you
Whatever you do don’t let nobody fool you

I heard a funny song about a girl who was really tall
When she sleeps in the kitchen, her feet stick out in the hall
She can shop on both levels when she’s walk around the mall.

(“I certainly was in the right,” interlude)

You can hear it China – all the way to Mykuzinstan
Everywhere you look there’s gonna a rock and roll band
And all you got a do give em’ a big old hand
Maybe give em’ a shot on the American BandStand
Cause the rock of ages being heard across the land
It’s the only language everybody can understand
(take me home guitar – all the way home)

(c) 2007, BMI, Boyd’s Tone Tunes

Written by John Boydston
Hey everybody.
This is a song that gets loud,
Then it gets quiet, then it gets loud
Then it gets quiet .
But that title was just too long,
So we call it….

Nana Nana Boo Boo
It’s a little thing we do
When you hear me say 1,2,
Make some noise, dance around,
Act like the monkeys do

Gotta wait for your cue
ONE-TWO

That’s all you gotta do,
When I say Nana Nana Boo Boo
And ONE-TWO!

(Help me sing now)

I say NANA
NANA NANA
NANA NANA BOO BOO

NANA
NANA NANA
NANA NANA BOO BOO

NANA
NANA NANA
NANA NANA BOO BOO

NANA
NANA NANA
NANA NANA BOO BOO

(everybody dance)

Boy, I’m glad that part’s over,
You know why?
Cause now we get to do it all again

I say Nana Nana Boo Boo
Now you know what to do
When you hear me say one-two
Make some noise, jump around
Act like a kangaroo

That’s all you gotta do
Here comes the cue
ONE-TWO

Have a little Mountain Dew
You’ll be acting like a monkey too
ONE-TWO

REFRAIN

Whew, I’m really glad that part’s over now
You know why?
Cause I’m tired, I’m really tired

That was a great job everybody.
But let’s try and keep it down for a while
I feel a nap coming on

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes

Written by John Boydston

Can you guess who I am I gotta stop
Gotta pick up all the riders so I stop
Got my hands on a wheel not a mop
Gotta get you there on time chop chop
Until everybody’s on I gotta stop
I’m the School Bus Driver, not your pop

Well my name is Gus, and I drive the bus
I get to meet great kids that’s really a plus
I’m gonna get you there all safe and sound
So smile when you see me its better than a frown
Be a rider not a fighter and we’ll all be friends
At the end of the day we can do it all again.

I been doing this now for 17-years
I know who steer and how to shift gears
My bus is pretty wide and its big and mellow
You can help me out by staying kind of mellow
I do what I do and I think it’s tops
I really like the part where I make the stops

I’m a school bus driver so I stop
Gotta pick up all the riders so I shop
Got my hands on a wheel not a mop
Gotta get you there on top chop chop
Until everybody’s on I gotta stop
Now everybody bop until you drop

You can rock and roll – just not on my bus)

Well I’d really like to stop but I guess I better go
Gotta get you there on time and this bus is kinda slow
I can usually get you there before the bell
But sometimes with traffic it’s really hard to tell
Well I’m the school bus driver not your pop
I can’t talk now cause I gotta STOP!

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes

Words and music by John D Boydston III

If you’re looking for a really cool place to go
There’s a state out west by the name of Idaho
You can ski there in the winter
Ride the river rapids when its hot
Then at night you can talk about
The big fish you almost caught (On the Bigwood baby)

Way to Go Idaho
You won’t know till you get up and go
Whoa Whoa Idaho
That’s what you’ll say when you get up and go

From Twin Falls all the way up to Cour’ D’Alene
Red Fish Lake, Stanley everywhere in between
Picaboo. I see you
Pocatelleo and Idaho Falls
Sun Valley, Ketchum, and McCall
It’s fun there winter spring summer and fall

Way to Go Idaho
Ride the rivers and go with the flow
Whoa Whoa Don’t cha know
You won’t know till you get up and go

They got lots of snow in Idaho –
you’ll even see it in summer
You can hike, you can bike, all you like
You might even see Arnold’s hummer (he’s the governator)

You’ll see real cowboys and cowgirls
at the rodeo in Idaho
They get on their horses and their broncing bucks
to put on a show in Idaho
(Yahoo!)

Way to Go Idaho
You won’t know till you get up and go
Whoa Whoa Idaho
That’s what you’ll say when you get up and go

You might meet bear or a moose and her calf
You can look from afar but I wouldn’t ask for an autograph
(and never give a moose a muffin)

Way to Go Idaho
They got big potatoes cause they know how to grow
Whoa Whoa Idaho
Everybody you meet will want to say hello

(Oh, there’s a couple of other t owns I forgot to mention,
and one of them is Hailey. We actually named a puppy
Hailey. We were going to call her Boise, the other town
I wanted to mention, but she was a she. So I said
‘let’s call her Girlsie.’)

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes

Written by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I say to myself
What wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
Bright sunny days, dark sacred nights
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

(bridge)
The colors of the rainbow are so pretty in the skies
Are also on the faces of people walking by
I see friends shaking hands saying
How do you do?
They’re really saying
I love you

I see babies cry, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world

And I say to myself
What a wonderful world

copyright 1967. Published by RANGE ROAD MUSIC, INC., QUARTET MUSIC INC., and SONGWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA OBO ABILENE MUSIC INC.

written by John Boydston
Hey Kids – here’s a little song my great great great Grand-pappy’s great great grand-pappy’s grandypappy’s uncle taught him
And he taught me and I thought I’d teach you all how it goes.
Everybody up for that?
I said “everyone up for that?”
Great…here we go.

I was walking up a mountain side what did I see?
A man doing chin-ups, but he looked to be a 103
I said hey old man – How’d you stay so fit all these years ?
He said its no secret son, I drink myself some root beer

He said:
ROOT beer!
ROOT beer!
ROOT beer!
ROOT beer!

I said ROOT beer?
He said ROOT beer!

He said I just like my root beer,
I don’t even know what’s in it, but it’s good
Works for me I said,
Now Kids, we’re going to sing this, now help us out.

Root BEER
Root BEER
Root BEER
Root BEER

Root BEER
Root BEER
Root BEER
Root BEER

Ok kids – that’s pretty much the end of the song – I didn’t’ say it was a great song or anything. But I think you all know it – I’m gonna step out and take this call and let you all sing it by yourselves, here we go.

root BEER
root BEER
root BEER
root BEER

root BEER
root BEER
root BEER
root BEER

Wait a minute kids – you’re gonna get me in trouble, cause I think you’re emphasizing the wrong word. Now sing it with me, it goes like this….

root BEER
root BEER
root BEER
root BEER

See how the emphasis in the root, not the beer?
If you guys are going singing about beer, I’m gonna get in trouble.

root BEER
root BEER
root BEER
root BEER

OK, when kids, I think that’s all the singing we’re gonna do today.
Remind me never to teach you kids that song about the capital of the Netherlands.
(what’s it called Dad?)
Uh, that’s the Amster (pause) darn song.

And that song about the capital of Finland?
(what’s the name of that song)
Uh, that’s the Hecksinki Song.
I’m never going to teach you that on either.

root BEER
root BEER
root BEER
root BEER (fade)

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes, BMI

written by John Boydston
This is the story of John BarleyCorn,
A guy liked to tie-dye since the day he was born
He tie-dyed his cradle and tie-dyed his crib
He tie-dyed his jammies, tie-dyed his bib
The day he turned five, he tie-dyed his granny
She turned around and gave him a potch on his fanny

He never asked why, he lived for dyeing.
It was the one thing that kept him from crying
He tied his food, his cakes and his pies
He went into his dad’s room and he tie-dyed his ties
In fact he tie-dyed everything that his dad had
His father wasn’t happy he was not a Grateful Dad

One day John Barleycorn was challenged to a duel
By another tie-dye guy, who never went to school.
The artist he was known as Wild Bill Hiccup
He used to drive around in his tie-dyed pickup
The legend that’s been told everywhere it is said
Wild Bill tie-dyed a whole town he painting that baby red

Could be trouble for John BarleyCorn
Been tie-dying since the day he was born

John said hey I’ll meet you at the edge of town
And bring all your supplies cause this time you’re going down
The two they squared off – as the noon bell it did ring
To find out just who was the tie-dyin’ king
Will Bill he grabbed a t-shirt and he began to tie
He said John Barleycorn – it’s a good day to tie-dye

After a tense standoff – John began to laugh
He said listen here Bill – we’re artists, let’s go and do our craft
Will Bill he did grin and said I must confess
I didn’t really feel like cleaning up a big old mess
The two of them they shook hands – and now they are friends
And just in time I gotta say cause that’s where our story ends

After a tense standoff – John began to laugh
He said listen here Bill – we’re artists, let’s go and do our craft
Will Bill he did grin and said I must confess
I didn’t really feel like making a big mess
The two of them shook hands – and now their friends
And just in time I gotta say cause that’s where our story ends

(Legend has it that Will Bill rode off in the sunset….and later opened a T-shirt store “called Tie-Dye ta’ Die For.” John Barleycorn – he wrote his life story – something called a dye-ography – called it
“Only the Good Tie-Dye Young.”)

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes, BMI

Words and music by Richard L. Holler and Phil Gernhard

After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird

Up in the sky, a man in a plane

Baron von Richthofen was his name

Eighty men tried, and eighty men died

Now they’re buried together on the countryside

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin’ out the score

Eighty men died tryin’ to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

In the nick of time, a hero arose

A funny-looking dog with a big black nose

He flew into the sky to seek revenge

But the Baron shot him down — “Curses, foiled again!”

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin’ out the score

Eighty men died tryin’ to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

Now, Snoopy had sworn that he’d get that man

So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan

He challenged the German to a real dogfight

While the Baron was laughing
He got him in his sight

That Bloody Red Baron was in a fix

He’d tried everything

But he’d run out of tricks

Snoopy fired once, 
And he fired twice

And that Bloody Red Baron 
went spinning out of sight

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin’ out the score

Eighty men died tryin’ to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

©1967, Phil Gernhard dba Sanphil Music Company

Written by John Boydston

Come on everybody grab yourself a yo-yo
To get the world on a string – it’s the way go-go
You say you want a revolution well you know
(you never know)

You can learn all the tricks like Reach for the Moon
You can Rock The Baby not a minute too soon
The Man on the Flying Trapeze, you can learn that too

(you know, if you practice really hard you can learn to be as good as Yo Yo Ma someday. I’ve never actually seen him in action but I hear he’s really good. And with a name like Yo Yo Ma, he’s probably awesome)

Call me old-fashioned but hey, what the heck?
Take a little break from all the high tech
Go ahead and give that computer a big old fat rain check

(guitar solo)

There’s Walking the Dog and a whole bunch of others
You can impress your friends and all of their mothers’
You can learn all the tricks like Tommy Smothers
(he’s a real Spin Doctor)

(You know a yo-yo is like life itself in so many ways, even though I can only think of one or two….its got its ups and downs, and
The more you practice the better off you’ll do)

Try Around the World or something tough like that
Machine Gun Sky Rocket Skin the Cat
So come on Everybody get your Yo’s Yo’s Out
Get Your Yo-Yo’s Out
Get Your Yo-Yo’s Out
Get Your Yo-Yo’s Out

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes, BMI

Written by John Boydston
When I was five plus three
I asked my great grand pappy
If I had any extra money he wasn’t using
He said listen up here sonny,
I’m not trying to be funny
But there’s a thing or two you should know about money

He said the answer may be blowing in the breeze
Its good to have a Kleenex when you sneeze
And no matter how many times, you say please, please, please
Money doesn’t grow on trees

It sounded some like he was raving
But he said everyone should be saving
Saving up their money for a rainy day
But it didn’t look like rain
So I figured I’d ask again
Just to clarify what he was trying to say

He said its hard to jump around without your knees
Sometimes the toothpaste tube needs a squeeze
And sometimes you can hear – the D-J pop all of his peas
And money doesn’t grow on trees

So I gave my great grammy a holler
And after she gave me a dollar (thank you)
I told her I had a question about what pappy said
If a dollar is made out of paper
And a paper is made out of trees
Then I gotta question Pappy’s financial expertise

She said people from Wisconsin love their cheese
A scratching dog might just have some fleas
But money doesn’t grow
No money Doesn’t grow
Take our word sonny, cause money doesn’t grow on trees

(c) 2007 Boyd’s Tone Tunes, BMI