Our Premiere Music Video: Go Play Outside
Let Grow will soon be launching our Summer of Independence promoting unsupervised outdoor play, bike rides, lemonade stands, and kids doing things on their own. What does every movement need? An anthem!
Here is Let Grow’s: “Go Play Outside,” filmed at, by, and with the wonderful NYC Guitar School. So go on now go — go play outside!
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Just Go Outside: The Let Grow Anthem
Sung to “I Will Survive”
Lyrics by Let Grow President Lenore Skenazy ([email protected] )
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
I thought my kids could not survive if they weren’t safe inside
But then they spent so many days
Eating Fritos on the floor
Sponge Bob blaring on the tube, I couldn’t take it anymore
And now I’m back, from that scared place
I just walked in to find my kids with that glazed look upon their face
So I unchained my front door lock
And I turned off my big TV
And I told my kids exactly what my mama had told me:
Go on now go, walk out the door!
Just take some chalk now, cause you’re not staying in no more
Weren’t you the ones who whined there’s nothing fun to do?
So got out and tumble
Or find some dog to play with you!
The weather’s fine
So go outside!
As long as there’s no streetlights on you can’t come back inside
You’ve got lots of things to do
Take a Hula Hoop with you
So go outside. Go play outside. Hey hey.
It took all the strength I had just to let them go
Kept thinking Nancy Grace would come and put me on her show
And I spent oh so many days just feeling doubtful of myself
Then I said hey
And re-watched “50 Shades of Gray.”
And now my kids, they’re like brand new!
They’re not those chained up little monsters swigging Mountain Dew
And they know how to kick a ball
And they know how to climb a tree
Now I’m hearing all the other parents sayin’ just like me:
Go on now go, go play outside!
As long as there’s no streetlights on you can’t come back inside
You’ve got so much more to do
Take your sister out with you
So go outside —-
Hey hey …
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