Another recitation

As most know, Jeremy LOVES, LOVES anything Dr. Seuss. For those who don't know (or don't remember) a lot of the Seuss stories are life lessons. For example, the book: Oh The Places You'll Go, from what I can tell is about self confidence and "getting up when getting knocked down". The one he has memorized in the video is the Sneetches. Beyond the book, we found a YouTube video which also inserts songs. The lesson (again from my viewpoint) is to treat everyone the same, and I guess in a larger sense about discrimination. Basically: Initially, Sneetches with stars on their belly were the in-crowd and plain bellies were out. The Fix-it-Up Chappie has 2 machines (a star-on and a star-off) and comes in to sell Stars to the plain belly Sneetches, then turns around and sells star removals to the starred belly. And so on. Here is Jeremy's version with the words below the video. The best part, of course, is Jeremy trying to pronounce ABDOMINAL and ABOMINABLE.

Now we know who is who and there isn’t a doubt
The best kind of sneetches are sneetches without
The old fashion custom of walking about
With stars on your belly is O-U-T Out.

Abdominal stars we cannot abide
Abdominal stars are abominable
Abdominal…abominable
Abdominal stars are abominable
O-U-T Out, O-U-T out
That old status symbol is O-U-T Out.
Then, of course, those with stars all got frightfully mad.
To be wearing a star now was frightfully bad.
Then, of course from THEN on, as you probably guess,
Things really got into a horrible mess.

(Makes his own sound effect – I think of a car horn tooting)
All the rest of the day, on those wild screaming beaches,
The Fix-it-Up Chappie kept fixing up Sneetches.
Off Again! On Again!
In Again! Out Again!
Through the machines they raced round and about again,
Changing their stars every minute or two.
They kept paying money. They kept running through
Until neither the plain nor the star-bellies knew
Whether this one was that one…or that one was this one
Or which one was what one…or what one was who.

Then when every last cent
Of their money was spent,
The Fix-It-Up Chappie packed up
And he went.
And he laughed as he drove
In his car up the beach,
“Ha-Ho! They never will learn – no you can’t teach a Sneetch”