![]() Hurry it up, come on, get your shoes on, We must be gone today. We ll be walking for a week? Better get up, get off, get a move on, Better be on our way. Do we really have to go? It s a lot for little feet. Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off! Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off!ģ It s a Long way to Bethlehem It s a dry and dusty road. Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off! Better make a move before it gets too hot. Better make a move before it gets too hot. Joseph It s ready! Both Got to go, but we ll take it steady, come along. Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off! Mary - How much longer to wait? Joseph I m ready! Mary Let! me carry your case. Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off! Mary I ve not tidied the place! Joseph Don t bother! Mary Everywhere is a mess! Joseph Oh bother! Both We ll be fine cause we ve got each other, come along.Ģ Better make a move before it gets too hot. Time we went, cause Bethlehem s a long way off! Mary Take a look at my hair! Joseph Don t worry! Mary I ve got nothing to wear! Joseph You re funny! Both Got to go, cause we re in a hurry, come along. And 'Tick-Tock Sick' tells us that he was already feeling the crunch just six years into his career.1 Tick Tock Better make a move before it gets too hot. Jim Henson accomplished an amazing amount in his life, but given the large number of files on unrealized projects that are in the archives, he clearly didn't have enough time to do all that he wanted to do. The theme of the song, the relentlessness of time, was later explored by Jim in his 1964 short film, TimePiece, and touched on again with the thirteen hour clock in Labyrinth. It is not clear that 'Tick-Tock Sick' was used for anything in particular, but it sounds like it may have accompanied puppet performances on Sam and Friends or a variety show. At the time Jim made the recording, he was living in Washington, DC and performing Sam and Friends on local television as well as making appearances on variety shows and making commercials for various products. The main song was called 'Tick-Tock Sick" and the flip side had a song called 'The Countryside'.īoth were written by Jim, and we have his typed lyrics for 'Tick-Tock Sick' in the archives. The 45RPM record was recorded under the Signature label ('A product of Hanover-Signature Record Corp.'). ![]() No alarm clock disturbs any sleep of mine.Īll rejuvinated and I use the sun dial to tell the time.Īlso, here's a little info about the song from a "Sam and Friends" fan site as written in an e-mail from Karen Falk, Archivist for The Jim Henson Company. Grind the wrist watch into the floor boards, Into the garbage can with the stop watch! Out the window with this object of the devil! With the wicked interjection of the gadget's scrambled version That confounded my affection for the sound of pleasant ticking ![]() Of the evil-minded genius who invented the contraption Not a shadow of suspicion of the underhanded scheming Only listenin' to the syncopated moments of the calculated Never suspectin' of the end that was comin' In the wee small hours I fell in the sack to the lullaby of the. With the ticks and the tocks and the rhythm that rocks. Went to the store where they sell the clocks That clock's got rhythm with a beat that swings. I put a question mark next to the line that I'm not 100% sure about.
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