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  • (foot steps)

  • - Uh, taxi.

  • (door slams)

  • - Ah, well, hello sir and welcome to Grover's Taxi.

  • - Oh no, it's you!

  • - Well yes, it is I, your furry, blue taxi driver.

  • What can I do for you, sir?

  • - (sighs) I want to go to the library.

  • - Oh, a very wise choice.

  • The library is a wonderful place with books to read

  • and you can listen to records like

  • The air is alive with the sound

  • Of music ♪ - I know that.

  • Let's go.

  • - And you know, you can take home books

  • from the library too, if you bring them back, of course.

  • - I know.

  • That's why I'm going there.

  • - Of course, you could also go to the zoo.

  • - I don't want to go to the zoo.

  • - Why?

  • There are lions and tigers there, and the lions go (roars).

  • And do not forget the monkeys.

  • They are so cute, they go oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo

  • and you can buy a balloon there.

  • - I don't wanna hear hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.

  • I don't want a balloon.

  • I want to go to the library!

  • - I am only trying to be helpful, sir.

  • (passenger sighs)

  • How 'bout the museum?

  • You know you can go there and look at the pictures

  • of pretty flowers and the mummies

  • and the daddies, ha, ha, ha.

  • - I do not want to look at the mummies and the daddies!

  • (car clangs)

  • Hey!

  • - Hey, watch it Harry.

  • May I suggest a nice movie, perhaps "The Sound of Music."

  • The air is alive

  • - I don't want to go to a movie!

  • I don't wanna go to the zoo!

  • I don't wanna go to the museum!

  • I want you to drive me to the library!

  • - Gladly sir, if you do not mind waiting.

  • - Waiting, waiting for what?

  • - Until I get my car fixed, it is broken.

  • - I can't wait 'til your car's fixed.

  • I'm in a hurry.

  • - Oh all right sir, if you are going to be difficult.

  • Hey Harry, forget the garage, first go to the library.

  • (car revs)

  • Do not worry sir, we should be there in a few hours,

  • vroom, vroom,

  • vroom, vroom. - But I'm in a hurry.

  • Hey, what's goin' on?

  • - Oh in that case, I shall call you a taxi.

  • Taxi, taxi, got a library job.

  • Taxi, they never stop when you need them.

  • Have you ever noticed that?

  • Taxi!

(foot steps)

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