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Unknown: thank you very much i hope you enjoyed meeting the musicians and i hope none of them bit anyone the it's my pleasure now to introduce one of my good friends and fantastic composer and if you've been here before you might have met him

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already this is greg smith and he's written a brand new piece for you today called the zoo song sarah came to the zoo where she knew she would meet lots of animals but when she went through the entrance gate all

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she saw were lots of people so many people that she was a little frightened then while dodging strollers and cameras carrying bags and elbows she heard a sound it was a beautiful sound and even though she didn't know

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which animal had made the sound she knew that before her day at the zoo was through sarah mccullough mccartney would find out taking her father by the hand she set out to find the

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beautiful animal that had made the beautiful sound the first animal she came to was a well she didn't know she knew it was the bird she could see its wings it was widened oh and skinny and it stood on one leg so she stood on one leg too it wasn't so easy

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for sarah to stand on one leg at the flamingo could do it all day long now to find out what a flamingo sounds like sarah did her best to make the sound she was looking for and the flamingo answer wasn't exactly what she wanted to hear

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but not wanting to be rude she said thank you very much with heartfelt gratitude there was the beautiful sound again it seemed to be moving away so she followed it to where she found a pride of lions sleep a

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whole lion family like pillows in the lyoness the mother opened one eye and looked at sarah so sarah sang to her that got her roaring

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then sara's new friend went back to her snoring from up ahead sarah hurt the beautiful sound again so she followed it to the aviary where lots of birds were making lots of sounds it was like a busy airport and the more she listened the more it sounded

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like music it's safe to say they turn to wisdom blurp than mr cheat and tweaked and scattered in the fleet but they didn't go no not at all

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and as they flew through the air like world war one aces she thought sure is good to have friends in high places there was the sound again it seemed far off so she raised the head or she came upon a pool of murky water where there seem to be

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nothing except two little ears and two little eyes and oh by the way that the two little ears were swollen swatting flies soon it began to rise and what she saw was of enormous size back and forth he moves quite slowly his body swayed to and

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fro his belly nearly touched the ground sarah listen carefully for the sound but not being one for talking the hippo just kept walking so sarah saying the sound the hippo raised a brown then saying an astounding sound that sounded like

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a cow it wasn't the sound she was looking for but sarah had met one hip hippo

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sara knew this sound it was an elephant following closely behind was a baby elephant she watched as the baby elephant tried to do everything its mother did pretty soon there was a whole line of elephants it was like a

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packet or raid as the elephants passed by sarah realized she'd forgotten about the sound she listened for it but it wasn't there she sang the sound but no one answered she was afraid but she

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wasn't going to give up suddenly there was a beautiful animal graceful tom was the tallest animal she'd ever seen it's long time why is he swiping leaves from the highest branch of the tree

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sara thought this must be the one that makes the beautiful sound she was very excited after all this was the moment she'd been waiting for so she listened

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and she listened now it may be beautiful wide eyed and tall but except for the crunching from all the munching the giraffe makes no sound at all then in the distance she heard the sound it was bad because the sun was now high and hot overhead as you

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follow the sound into the shade of trees but she wasn't alone from high in the trees and low to the ground many eyes were watching her sara thought at first they were people they look like people and were grouped together and families and like

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people they had many different names lemur slender loris bow recording oracle su tt pale headed suchen mandrem columbanus red cap manga mama tamaryn spider man goldies monkey squirrel monkey the process monkey blitzer white

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nose monkey silverleaf monkey black howler monkey watching the ranga 10 bornean orangutan ape chimp gorilla primates on sara searched meaning giraffes and zebras leopards and tigers bison deer and bears she listened to snakes seals tigers

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roar alligators below elephants trumpets coyotes hyenas suddenly she was back at the entrance gate it was time to go home as they were leaving sarah's father noticed a tear on her cheek and wondered what was wrong and sarah said she never

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found the animal that made the beautiful sound he didn't know what she meant so sarah showed them as she has shown all the animals she'd met deep in the zoo the animals listened to her call and sensed

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her sadness it was the hippo who answered first then the flamingos all the birds and the lions sarah had called out and animals had answered as for which one

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made the sound maybe the sound she heard wasn't made by an animal at all maybe it was a kind of song maybe it was the song of the rain forests what the song of the oceans prairies on the savannas for tundras maybe what she heard

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was the song of life Whatever it was, Sarah knew she could come back to the zoo again and again, not only to find out who made the sound, but to visit her friends for now. Sarah was tired from her beak to her feet.

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But as she turned to go, there stood one last friend to meet was a bird of some kind. All crimped and full of pride. Sarah had this step back, as its tail Open wide. The shy and colorful word had been with her

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all day long. But now the time has come. For the peacock to sing its song. Her day was complete. Sara McCullough McCartney had found what she was looking for.

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And she never forgot pursue adventure. Makes you wonder. Could the same thing happened to you? All depends. on whether you have friends where the song never

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ends, the zoo. Thank you all very much. I hope you had a nice time. Bye