Knock on Wood/Transcript

June: Art by... George Inness.

Anne: And...

["Orchestral Suite Number 2: Minuet and Badinerie" playing]

Leo: Music by... Johann Sebastian Bach.

The scene begins at the forest of Arkansas with the team marching.

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums]

All: [Giggling]

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums]

Leo: Hi! I'm Leo. And I'm playing with my friends: Annie... June...

June: [Dancing while ballet music playing]

Leo: Quincy...

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums]

Leo: And Rocket!

Rocket: [Jingles]

Leo: Do you like to play with your friends? Me too. We're playing in the big woods of Arkansas.

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums until someone is tapping to the same beat]

June: Listen! Someone is drumming just like Quincy.

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums again until someone is tapping again to the same beat]

Quincy: I hear it too.

Annie: I wonder who's doing that!

Quincy: [Playing his snare drums again until someone is tapping to the same beat one last time]

Leo: Who's making that music? Yeah, that bird. It's a woodpecker!

Woodpecker: [Flute playing while tapping]

Annie: [Giggles]

June: There he is.

Woodpecker: [Tapping]

Quincy: [Chuckles] Now he's over there.

Woodpecker: [Tapping]

Leo: [Laughs] Now he's on that tree.

Woodpecker: [Tapping and flute playing]

Quincy: Now, that's a funny woodpecker.

June: He's not just any woodpecker. He's an Ivory billed woodpecker.

Woodpecker: [Flute playing while tapping]

Annie: Whoa! He's a good tapper.

Leo: Come on. Let's wave hello to him. Say "hello, tapper". Hello, Tapper.

Tapper: [Tapping and flute playing while he lands on Leo's Baton]

Leo: It's nice to meet you, tapper.

Tapper: [Flute playing, translates "Nice to meet you too! And what's your name?"]

Leo: My name is Leo, and these are my friends.

Rocket: [Jingles]

All except Leo: Hello!

Annie: Where are your friends, Tapper?

Tapper: [Flute playing, translates "It's a long story..." as he plays a friendship song]

Quincy: Listen. Tapper is trying to call a friend!

June: That must be his friendship song!

Tapper: [Plays his friendship song again]

Leo: He's calling for another ivory-billed woodpecker to come play with him!

Annie: Uh-oh. Nobody is answering!

June: Maybe tapper doesn't have any friends.

Tapper: [Flute playing sadly]

Quincy: Leo. Do you think tapper has any friends?

Leo: Of course Tapper has a friend.

Leo: Everybody has friends.

Tapper: [Flute playing]

Leo: Tapper, you need to play your friendship song someplace where everyone can hear you.

Leo: Someplace... like... Up there! At the top of the ozark mountains.

Tapper: [Flute playing]

Leo: If you play your friendship song up there, I promise a friend will hear you!

All: [Laughing]

June: Tapper has never had another ivory billed woodpecker to play with before.

Leo: Will you help tapper find a friend? You will?! Great! We've got a mission!

[Baton Jingles]

Leo: We're going to help tapper get to the top of the ozark mountains, so he can call a friend!

Quincy: Look! Tapper is going to lead the way.

Leo: We better hurry and blast off!

Annie: Yeah!

Quincy: Let's go!

Leo: To Rocket!

All: ♪We've got a mission!♪

Leo: Come on! Welcome aboard. Buckle your seatbelts.

All except Leo: Seatbelts buckled!

Leo: Prepare for blast off! We're going to need a lot of power to blast off. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket revving]

Leo: June is patting. Quincy's patting. Annie's patting.

[Annie giggling]

Leo: But we need more power! Put your hands on your laps and pat with us. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Faster! Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket revving]

Leo: Now raise your arms as high as you can and say blast off!

All: Blast off!

Annie: Hold on tight, 'cause here we go!

All: Whoa!!

Leo: Now let's go to the top of the ozark mountain so tapper can call a friend!

June: Absolutely!

Annie: Yes!

[Rocket jingling]

Annie: Look, Rocket, there's Tapper!

♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

♪You won't be all alone♪

♪Help us find a friend!♪

♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

June: Wow!

Quincy: Cool!

Leo: Way to go, Annie! You made up words for tapper's friendship song.

Annie: That's what I do best!

All: ♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

All: ♪You won't be all alone♪

All: ♪Help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

[Rocket jingling worriedly]

June: Uh-oh. Rocket can't find tapper. Can you find tapper? You found him! There he is.

[Tapper jingling a warning]

Leo: It sounds like tapper is trying to tell us about a problem.

Quincy: A problem? What problem?

Annie: Uh-oh. That sounds like... falling branches!!!

Leo: Rocket! Look out!!

[Crash]

Leo: Phew. Thanks for warning us, Tapper.

June: Oh, no! Tapper, watch out!

[Crash]

Quincy: Uh-oh. Tapper is trapped behind those branches.

Leo: Don't worry, tapper, we'll get you out of there.

[Hissing music playing]

Leo: I hear music. Do you see who's making that music? Oh, yeah. It's coming from that... rattle snake!!

All: A rattle snake?!

Leo: Tapper, be careful!

[Tapper tapping branch in rhythm]

Quincy: I cannot believe it! Tapper is trying to break through the branches!

Annie: Hurry, tapper! Here comes the rattlesnake!

Quincy: Tapper needs our help. Let's play the drums to help tapper break through the branches, like this.

[Drumming in rhythm]

Quincy: Ready? Drum that rhythm on your lap.

[Drumming; tapping in rhythm]

Quincy: That's it. It's working. We're helping tapper breaks through the branches. But here come the snake! Drum louder!

[Drumming; tapping louder]

Quincy: Louder!

[Drumming; tapping; breaking sound]

Annie: Yahoo!

Quincy: We did it!

June: Tapper is safe!

Quincy: Thanks for drumming with me.

Annie: Look, look, look! The rattle snake has a friend.

June: Aw, rattle snake wasn't coming to get tapper. She was looking for her friend.

Leo: Rattlesnake found a friend, and now we're going to help you find your friend, Tapper, just like I promised.

Quincy: Yeah!

Annie: Let's do it!

Leo: Let's get to the ozark mountains!

Annie: ♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

♪You won't be all alone♪

♪Help us find a friend!♪

♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

Leo: Whoa! Check it out! It's a swamp.

All: Ooh.

[Rocket jingles]

June: Rocket has a plan.

[Whirring]

June: Rocket turned into a swamp boat!

Leo: Cool!

Quincy: Good thinking, Rocket.

Annie: A swamp boat can take us all the way to the ozark mountains!

Annie: Whoo-hoo!

Quincy: Go, Rocket, go!

Tapper: [Flute playing while tapping on logs]

June: Tapper loves tapping on the logs.

Quincy: Hmm. That log looks kind of strange.

[Bonging music playing]

Leo: And it sounds strange, too.

Annie: I don't think that's a log. What is it? [Gasps] It's an alligator! Yes! Don't tap, tapper! It's not a log! It's an alligator!

[Bonging music playing]

Leo: Hurry, Rocket! The alligator is trying to get tapper!

Quincy: Oh-no! The alligator is getting closer!

June: We have to go faster!

[Tapper jingling]

June: That's a great idea, tapper! We can do a dance to make Rocket's fan spin faster and faster, a fan dance. Fan, fan, fan, fan! We need your help. Can you make circles with your hands to the beat? Yes! That's excellent! The fan is spinning faster. Uh-oh. But we need to go even faster to get away from the alligator! Come on. Let's make bigger circles. Even bigger!

Leo: Whoo-hoo!

Quincy: You did it!

Annie: Hooray!

June; That was excellent fan dancing!

Annie: Oh-no! There is a big pile of logs blocking the swamp!

Leo: It's a log jam!

Quincy: But how will we get tapper to the ozark mountain? Nobody can get past the log jam.

[Bonging music playing]

June: Uh-oh. I know that sound. It's the alligator!

[Tapper tapping in rhythm]

Annie: Tapper, what are you doing?

June: Incredible! Tapper is trying to break through the log jam. Go, tapper!

Leo: You can do it!

Quincy: Tapper is going to need extra help to break through that giant log jam. What can we do to help tapper break through the log jam? Yes! We can drum with him on our drums! Let's drum the rhythm with tapper. Drum with me.

[Drumming in rhythm]

Quincy: We're doing it, but we have to drum louder! Here comes the alligator! Even louder!

[Drumming; break]

June: Yahoo!

Annie: Yay!

Quincy: We did it! We broke the log jam!

Leo: Hurry, Rocket. Go through the log jam before the alligator gets here!

[Whoosh]

Annie: Phew. We made it though just in time.

June: Uh-oh! The alligator followed us through the log jam!

Leo: But look! The alligator isn't trying to catch tapper. He wants to play with his friend.

Quincy: Aw, alligator looks happy to be back with his friend.

Annie: See you later, alligator!

[Bonging music playing]

Leo: Okay, tapper, alligator is with his friend, and now it's time to help you find your friend.

[Tapper jingles]

Annie: ♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

♪You won't be all alone♪

♪Help us find a friend!♪

♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

[Tapper jingling excitedly]

Leo: I think tapper found the ozark mountains. Do you see the ozark mountains? Yes, there they are!

June: Hooray!

Annie: We found them!

Leo: Get ready for blast off, team! We're going to the top of the ozark mountains, so Tapper can call a friend! Buckle your seat belts.

All: Seat belts buckled!

Leo: Prepare for blast off! We're going to need a lot of power to blast off. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Now raise your arms as high as you can and say blast off!

All: Blast off!

Quincy: Yay, Rocket! Whoo-hoo!

June: Wonderful! Amazing!

Annie: We made it!

Quincy: A friend will definitely hear you from up here, tapper.

Leo: This is it, tapper. It's time to play your friendship song to call a friend.

Leo: Are you ready? I'll use my baton to conduct.

[Tapper tapping to Orchestral Suite Number 2: Minuet and Badinerie]

Quincy: Uh-oh. Nobody is answering.

June: Tapper's song isn't louder enough.

Annie: We need to help tapper play louder!

[Hissing music playing]

Leo: Wait, I hear someone. Who does that sound like? t's the rattle snakes, yeah! The rattle snakes are going to help tapper play his song louder.

Annie: Yay, rattle snakes!

June: That's very thoughtful.

[Bonging music playing]

Quincy: Hey, guys, I hear another animal.

Leo: What animal does that sound like? It's the alligators! Right!

June: The alligators wants to help tapper, too.

Leo: And I know how we can help Tapper. We can sing the friendship song with him!

Quincy: Yeah!

Annie: Great idea, Leo!

Leo: But we're going to need your help. Will you sing the friendship song with me? Great! Okay. Get ready. Now sing!

All: ♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

All: ♪You won't be all alone♪

All: ♪Help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

[Tapper jingles]

Leo: Tapper wants us to be even louder. Sing louder!

All: ♪You will find a friend, Tapper!♪

All: ♪You won't be all alone♪

All: ♪Help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Oh, help us find a friend!♪

All: ♪Yes, help us find a friend for Tapper!♪♪

Leo: Shh. Now let's listen for tapper's friend.

[Orchestral Suite Number 2: Minuet and Badinerie playing high-pitched]

Leo: It worked! We called another ivory billed woodpecker!

Quincy: Hooray!

June: Yay!

Annie: We did it! Tapper looks so happy.

Quincy: He has a friend!

[Tapper and his friend singing Orchestral Suite 2]

Leo: Aw. They're playing tapper's friendship song together. Hello, tapper. Hello, tapper's friend. I'm glad you two found each other.

[Tapper and his friend jingling]

June: Look, they're saying thank you!

Quincy: You're welcome.

June: Hooray!

Leo: All right!

Annie: Yay, Tapper!

Leo: Mission completion!

[Baton jingles] Leo: It's time for...the curtain call!

[Applause]

Leo: Let's clap for our team! Clap with us! Let's clap for Annie! Quincy! June!

Others: Leo!

All: Rocket!

[Rocket jingling]

Leo: Clap for Tapper and his friend!

[Tapper and his friend jingling]

June: Let's clap for the art! Clap for "Pool in the Woods" by George Inness!

Leo: And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: Let's clap really, really hard for the special music we've heard today!

["Orchestral Suite Number 2: Minuet and Badinerie" playing]

Leo: "Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor: Minuet and Badinerie" by Johann Sebastian Bach!

All: Yay, Bach!

June: You've helped a lot today.

Quincy: Give yourself a hand. Go on, clap for yourself.

June: Bravo! Bravo!

Annie: Yay for you!

Leo: See you on the next mission!