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Plankton Soup

from Only One Ocean by Banana Slug String Band

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    Dive in! Swim with us, alongside sea turtles and whales, on a musical odyssey into the Earth's one mysterious, marvelous – and precious – ocean.

    ONLY ONE OCEAN is 14 rockin’ new songs from the Banana Slugs all designed to inspire young people and their families to learn about and care for the ocean.

    Special guests include George Winston, Brett Dennen, Zach Gill & Grammy winners Victor Wooten and BeaSoleil avec Michael Doucet.

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Did you know that about half of the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny plants in the sea? That's right -- phytoplankton!

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PLANKTON SOUP

If you live out in the sea then the thing that you should eat
It’s a mix of plants and meat called Plankton Soup
Out where algae grows in a lovely sea meadow
That's where you'll find a batch of Plankton Soup

CHORUS:
(2x) Plankton soup, plankton soup
Aye! You really ought to try some
The ocean is alive with plankton soup

Now the diatoms catch some sun, then the soup it has begun
That's how you cook a batch of plankton soup
Then the zooplankton can munch on a phytoplankton lunch
There's a food chain in each bite of plankton soup

[Chorus]

The great whale takes its fill of plankton soup with krill
A thousand pounds each meal of plankton soup
The whale filters soup between its strainers called baleen
And spits off the briny broth of plankton soup

[Chorus]

Plankton plants make oxygen which we must all breathe in
All of life depends on plankton soup
It’s such a little thing but life is what it brings
So let us all now sing to plankton soup

[Chorus]

If you sail out on the sea and you meet a salt like me
I'll show you where to find some plankton soup
It's the staff of life out here. There's a new batch every year
The ocean is alive with plankton soup

[Chorus]

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from Only One Ocean, released January 11, 2011

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Booty-shakin' music for kids ... or anyone 'young' enough to love this precious Earth!

"The best thing about Banana Slug String Band albums? An adult can listen to them [i]almost[/i] as many times as the kids want them played and not experience an urge to strangle a purple dinosaur.
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