♪ Helping music for a child's heart, body and mind. ♪
- The Book About Tony Chestnut.
Written by Laurie Monopoli,
song lyrics by The Learning Station,
illustrated by Wendy Sefcik.
This is a story about a shy boy named Tony Chestnut
and his little sister, Eileen.
They had just moved to a new house
and today was the first day at their new school.
Tony Chestnut smiled as he thought about how nice
it would be to make some new friends.
His little sister Eileen felt sad.
All she could think was saying goodbye
to her best friends Gracie and Lexi.
She thought, who will hold and turn the other end
of the jump rope now that I'm gone?
It was a beautiful sunny day.
All the children ran outside
to the playground to play.
Some climbed on the jungle gym
and began swinging back and forth across the bars.
Others raced to the swings and started pumping their legs
back and forth.
Their swings climbed higher
and higher towards the sky.
Another scooped up the big red ball
and tossed it way up in the air towards the clouds.
All that was left on the playground
was a big yellow bench.
Tony Chestnut and Eileen sat down on the big yellow bench.
Eileen looked out at the playground filled with smiling,
giggling children all happy at play.
Suddenly,
Eileen began to cry.
It made Tony Chestnut very sad
to see his little sister crying.
He got down on his knees and begged,
please stop crying but she just cried harder.
(Eileen sobs)
Then he stood up on his hands
and walked around like a circus clown.
Eileen just cried even harder.
He even tried making Eileen's favorite silly monkey face.
(monkey grunts)
Eileen just cried been harder
with even bigger tears.
Tony didn't know what else to do.
Then shy Tony Chestnut did something
that he never thought in his wildest dreams
he would have the courage to do.
He stood up brave and tall,
took a deep breath,
climbed atop the big yellow bench
and he began to sing.
Tony Chestnut sang so loud
that all the children on the playground stopped.
They stopped climbing on the jungle gym,
they stopped swinging on the swings,
they stopped tossing the big red ball.
And as he sang his song,
the most wonderful, incredible thing began to happen.
♪ Toe knee chest nut ♪
♪ Nose eye love you ♪
♪ Toe knee nose ♪
♪ Toe knee chest nut ♪
♪ Nose I love you ♪
♪ That's what what toe knee nose ♪
♪ Toe knee ♪
♪ And his sister Eileen ♪
♪ And Eileen loves Neil ♪
♪ And Neil loves Pat ♪
♪ But Pat still loves Bob ♪
♪ And there's Russell ♪
♪ And Skip ♪
♪ This song is silly ♪
♪ But it's hip ♪
♪ How it ends ♪
♪ Just one man knows ♪
♪ And guess what ♪
♪ It's toe knee chest nut ♪
- Tony Chestnut, his little sister Eileen,
Neil, Pat, Bob, Russell and Skip
became good friends
and played happily together ever after
and so did Spot, the ladybug
and her new friends.
The end.
Thanks for listening to The Book About Tony Chestnut.
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