Lyrics | Crab Jubilee

Crab Jubilee! Crab Jubilee! Crabs look so happy, so fancy and free!
So graceful, so tasteful, so glad to be part of a wonderful Crab Jubilee!
Now the crabs come a dancin’ out onto the land!
They merrily waltz right into your pan!
It’s a joyous occasion, something to see
The crabs celebrating the Crab Jubilee!

Chorus

Crab Jubilee! Crab Jubilee! Sounds like death and dyin’ to me!
The oxygen’s used, decomposing algae. So we can flee or die,
and that’s your Crab Jubilee!

My buddies the oysters cement themselves down.
They’re not built for moving around.
So like all the critters that cannot swim far,
when the oxygen drops, they die right where they are.

So when the crabs leave the water, you know somethin’s wrong !?
We’d much rather stay down where we belong.
So when life underwater can’t be sustained…..
Then we sadly depart as we sing this refrain

Chorus

Water contains dissolved oxygen
down here we breathe through our gills as we swim
down in the mud under the bay
bacteria decompose things every day
then the oxygen drops, OH NO !
most of life stops, OH NO !
anoxia, OH NO where did the oxygen all go ?

Crab jubilee! Crab Jubilee, it sounds like death and dying to me
it isn’t a party, there’s no cause for glee ,
it’s sad to be part of a crab jubilee, yes, I hope there’s no more crab jubilee

Written by Bill Brennan, Paul Seydewitz and Betty Truszkowski

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