Billy B. - The Natural Science Song and Dance Man

Well, the sun comes
streaming out of the sky
making everything grow
and keeping us alive
and our main connection
to the sun are the green leaves,
only they can make food
with sunshine energy.

Oh, photosynthesis,
yes, photosynthesis
it’s a process
you wouldn’t want to miss-
that photosynthesis.
You know it’s true,
we’d all be through
without the rock and roll
of photosynthesis.

What keeps the leaves green
and the sunlight stashed
are those chlorophyll
containers called chloroplast.
There are millions of them
moving around in each leaf
they get excited
when their leaf gets lighted
and become
the tree’s food factories.

Oh, minerals and water
come up from the ground
which is where the rain falls
and the roots are found
they travel just beneath
the bark up into the leaves.
Leaves use what they need
to make food for the tree,
and the rest is vaporized
as it’s released.

Now, where the vapor slips out
carbon dioxide slips in
just as the leaf releases
water’s oxygen.
It makes it free for you and me.
It’s a living example of harmony.
So the next time you think
everything’s all wrong
go breathe among the leaves,
you’re gonna know you belong.

Now, when the leaves
get sunshine and water, too.
And carbon dioxide
from you and me.
They make that sugar
people called glucose.
It becomes other sugars
in the bark and is stored
as starch.
Yes, food flowing where and
when the tree needs it most.