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One (from Hello Numbers​!​)

from An Album Of Unnecessary Detail by Helen Arney

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A song about the number one, based on the counting book "Hello Numbers! What Can You Do?" by Edmund Harriss and Houston Hughes with illustrations by Brian Rea.

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One is a person or a place or a thing
One head on your shoulders
One note that you sing

You could use the word “it” but there’s another way
When you’re counting
One’s what you say

And that includes you
Yes, you’re a One too!
One person
Unique in the things that you do
Doobee doobee doobee doo

You’re the one
You’re the one
You’re the one for me

In the thoughts that you think
In the dreams that you dream
That’s what makes you One:
Your identity

Now, back in your brain, in the place you see One
What games can One play
When One wants to have fun?

Come on let’s play some games!
Hide and seek?
Catch me if you can?
Pass the parcel?
This doesn’t work when you’re on your own…

On a blank canvas
One can get around
It can move left and right
It can move up and down
But among so much nothing
Poor one can’t begin
To tell where One is
From where One has just been

You’re the one
You’re the one
You’re the one for me

When One’s the only one
There’s one thing wrong
That One needs another to know they’re not lonely
One needs a friend to run from or run to
Doobee doobee doobee doo

You’re the one
You’re the one
You’re the one for me
In the thoughts that you think in the dreams that you dream
Doobee doobee doobee doo

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from An Album Of Unnecessary Detail, released September 1, 2020
Written and sung by Helen Arney, produced by James Hughes

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Helen Arney London, UK

"Geek Songstress" Helen Arney is the UK's finest purveyor of comedy songs with a scientifically verified twist.

"Champion of musical whims" Evening Standard
**** ”Harnesses the spirit of Ben Folds & the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon… delightful” (Chortle)

Also one third of Festival of the Spoken Nerd and author of "The Element In The Room" ... more

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