Track 1
Battle of the Beetle and the Bee

Oral Introduction

When I was just a little boy...I’d say about so high,
I had one simple pride and joy; I never did know why.
I used to love to watch bugs fight...to test their strength and power.
I’d search for insects day and night, then watch them by the hour.
I’d put a yellow queen bee inside a bottle and hide ‘er.
And then I’d find a juicy beetle and place him right beside ‘er.
They’d twist and squirm and crawl and bite, both hungry for their dinner.
There never was a stranger sight and I’d always pick the winner.
So how’s about your close attention, while I tell you all about it?
Though incidentally I might mention, you’ve ev’ry right to doubt it!

Chorus

I put a bitty beetle in a bottle with a bee
And bet a buck the bee would bite the bitty beetle.
What a battle in the bottle when the beetle met the bee.
No better bout between two bugs could ever be!

Now the belly on the body that the beetle had was bigger
Than the belly on the body of the bee.
But the beetle had no business in the bottle with the bee
In the BATTLE OF THE BEETLE AND THE BEE!

The bee began to buzz a bit about the beetle’s back
As the beetle boasted bravely how he’d break the bee to bits.
Then they both began to bicker back and forth about the bottle
In the BATTLE OF THE BEETLE AND THE BEE!

By and by the busy bee began to bite the beetle’s back
And made the beetle’s body bounce about the bottle.
So the biting by the buzzing bee had brought about the end
Of the BATTLE OF THE BEETLE AND THE BEE!