Schoolhouse Rock!

"Them Not So Dry Bones"

Original Air Date

May 5, 1979

This song teaches about the human skeleton; the song is based on the traditional song "Dem Bones." This song was voted the 23rd best song on the 30th Anniversary DVD Top 25.

Lyrics to Them Not-So-Dry Bones

Them bones, them bones, them dry bones

Now they're the working of the Lord

Bones are heard of, but seldom seen

Except each year around Halloween

But I've got a shockeroo

Right now there's a skeleton locked up inside of you! (Ha-ha-ha)

Minus bones you're just a blob

Being framework's their main job

All your organs, muscles, too

They need your bones to hold them safe and sound inside for you

Your heart and lungs are tucked away

In there behind your ribs

Those bones have been protecting them

Since we were little kids

Look out! Here comes a bonehead play!

Birding his brain (tweet, tweet, tweet) what a day!

Don't take much to overwhelm it

But luckily those bones up there work like a built-in helmet!

Shin bone connected to the knee bone

(That means the tibia connects to the patella)

Knee bone connected to the thigh bone

(That means the patella connects to the femur)

And here's how they really fit together

Ligaments are what link bone to bone

Cartilage that cushions in between

Muscles hook on by the tendons

So here's what's happening in your knees

Most every time you bend them

Now there's a lot of skeleton

We never get to see

But it holds other little parts

That show quite obviously

I'm talking about those thirty-two

That we all call our teeth

We got to feed them right and keep them clean

Or they can come to grief (OUCH! Ow!)

So please remember

You've got to do it while you're young

Feed your bones some good old calcium

Drinking milk - a glass or two

Will help your bones to stay in shape

And do their job for you

(Your skeleton)

It's a framework (yes, yes) holding you together

Shielding organs, yeah, that's its job, too!