Making Good Noise

Making Good Noise
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 2003 HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Good noise. (Good noise.)
Good noise. (Good noise.)
Take your fingers and you snap snap snap.
Take your hands and you clap clap clap.
Snap. Clap. Snap. Clap.
What’re we doing? We’re making good noise!
Call the men and the women and the girls and the boys.
Bring your hands and your feet and your instrumental toys.
Forget about the weather, we’re all here together
We’re fabricating music and making good noise.

Good noise. (Good noise.)
Good noise. (Good noise.)
Take your mouth and you pop pop pop.
Take your feet and you clop clop clop.
Pop. Clop. Pop. Clop.
Then the lady downstairs says, “Stop that boys!”
“Come on up we’re making good noise!”
Call the men and the women and the girls and the boys.
Bring your hands and your feet and your instrumental toys.
Me and my poppy in a big old jalopy,
Just fabricating music and making good noise.

The fingers snap and the hands go clap.
The mouth goes pop and the feet go clop.
Roll up the carpet, take away the chairs,
Here comes the lady downstairs.

Call the men and the women and the girls and the boys.
Bring your hands and your feet and your instrumental toys.
Call the tall and the short and the stout and the lean,
The old and the young and everybody in between.
Call the fish and the fowl and the flora and the fauna.
Bring a flipper and a flapper and your cousin in the corner.
Forget about the weather, we’re all here together
We’re fabricating music and making good noise.
When it comes down to it one of life’s great joys
Is fabricating music and making good noise.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Making Good Noise CD.

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