Chapin School’s H20 Rap
Dec 19
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Children at a hand-washing station in Port au Prince, Haiti. (Photo: Concern Worldwide)
High school students from The Chapin School wrote a H20 Rap in conjunction with a school play that was developed in the fall called “The Water Project”. In the play, students explore the theme of water: the role it plays in everyday lives, its symbolic meaning, and the future of water.
CLICK TO PLAY: The Water Project, H20 Rap.
Attention, attention
Ladies and Gentlemen
We are the H2O’s, whoa
With a show that’s never before been seen on this island of Manhattan
And on this rainy day all we ask for is a little bit of pay
We’re here to turn your frown upside down, so drop me a beat
We are the H2O’s,
We’ll get rid of your woes,
And all we ask for is a little bit of your dough
You maniac, brainiac,
MC Brain, make it rain!
70% of the earth is water,
65% of your body is too,
If you don’t wanna believe these statistics,
Ask your smarty-pants momma if they’re true
CHORUS:
Oh, I like that H2O, H2O
‘Cause it makes it rain and snow, rain and snow
Here’s a little something you won’t understand if you’re blond
You see hydrogen has a very weak bond.
And it’s always moving
And it’s always grooving
And it’s not very strong
And you may think that that’s wrong
And that’s what gives it its shape!
Water is a polar molecule,
This is the stuff that you learn in school
H’s are positive, O’s are negative,
H2O, and remember that, yo
Now let’s talk a little bout the water cycle
See it’s not just like a motorcycle
And the clouds make it rain into the ocean
And it starts this whole new kind of motion
And it goes off in to the soil
That’s what your mama uses to make it boil
And it goes back up into the clouds
And that’s how the cycle goes round and round
When the storm starts to take over your life,
You wanna reach out and grab onto your wife
Sometimes you use it to wash out the pain,
But once is a while you can’t get rid of that stain
The monopoly of water is growing and growing,
And the water’ll keep flowing and flowing,
But it mostly goes to the people with money,
And that’s something we should try to fix, honey
Water is a basic human right,
Even though sometimes it causes a fight,
Less than 3% of earth’s water is used,
But not if we continue to contaminate and abuse!
– by Hollis Alpert, Katherine Brannan-Williams & Charlotte Crider
