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If you go down to the ocean floor

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There is a celebrity you may not have seen before 

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Not on the stage or the silver screen

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But the intertidal zone where the waves caress the shore

 

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It's my favourite echinoderm

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She looks just like she fell from the night sky

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And I learn to look for her when I'm at the seaside

 

 

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Would you teach me how to be a sea star?

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Teach me how to be a sea star

 

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She takes good care of her habitat

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Cleaning up the rocks and sand, Salty water in her veins

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And with that tough spiny skin of hers

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For fending off the predators, she lives to shine another day

 

 

 

 

 

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It's my favourite echinoderm

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She looks just like she fell from the night sky

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And I learn to look for her when i'm at the seaside

 

 

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Can you teach me how to be a sea star

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Teach me how to be a sea star

 

 

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Down in the abyssal zone, where the sun has never shone

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There is a familiar face

 

Where everything looks strange to us – deep and dark and dangerous

 

A friendly sea star finds it's place…

 

 

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It's my favourite echinoderm

            Em                         F                                  C

She looks just like she fell from the night sky

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And I learn to look for her when i'm at the seaside

 

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Can you teach me how to be a sea star

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Teach me how to be a sea star

 

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So I take care of what I love

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The water and the air above

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The plants that grow beneath my feet

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The clothes I wear, the food I eat

 

 

 

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Can you teach me how to be a sea star

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Teach me how to be a sea star

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By Laura Newman