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Versuri Animaniacs (OST) & Rob Paulsen feat. Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille – When You're Traveling from Nantucket lyrics

[Narrator, spoken]
And now, Yakko Warner sings about time.

[Yakko]
When you’re traveling from Nantucket through Chicago to St. Paul
And you’re standing at an airport and you look upon the wall
There’s a clock for every city and a different time for all
From Asia through Malaysia to Peru
Did you ever wonder why that when it’s ten o’clock in Maine
At precisely the same moment, it is 3 AM in Spain?
When it’s breakfast time in Rome they’re having lunch in the Ukraine
And it’s supper up in upper Kathmandu

If the Earth were spinning faster as the sun is going past her
Then a day would only be an hour long
And school, when they begin it, would only last a minute
Before everybody has to run along
[Wakko & Dot, spoken]
All right!

[Yakko]
If the Earth were the planet that was closest to the sun,
A year would be much shorter and you’d have a lot of fun
Cause by the time you were in first grade, you’d be over twenty-one
And you’d live to be nine hundred-three or four

Time is relative, dependent, you can save it, you can spend it
Doing things you like to do or learning how
[Wakko]
You can’t see it, you can’t taste it
[Dot]
But you certainly can waste it
[Yakko]
Which is really what we’re doing here right now

The international date line’s an imaginary cleft
Today is on the right side and tomorrow’s on the left
So when you cross it, do you then arrive the day before you left?
That’s how it’d work, it’s quite berserk, you see
So if you were born in China while I’m born in Carolina,
Well, then, you’re a day ahead of me, you see
So the way I’ve got it reckoned, if we’re born in the same second,
Then why should you be a day older than me?

But it really is no miracle, the difference in our birth
Because the world is spherical, that’s why around the Earth
[Yakko, Wakko & Dot]
There’s always different times for Moscow, London, Boston and Fort Worth
[Yakko]
And that’s the way it’s always gonna be

So remember, when you’re traveling from Nantucket to St. Paul,
And that airport as you’re staring at those clocks upon the wall,
You should think about this song, my friend, and then you will recall
[Wakko]
That it was mildly amusing
[Dot]
But then totally confusing
[Yakko, Wakko & Dot]
And we bet you wish we hadn’t sung at all!