The Tapir in Machu Picchu

"The Tapir in Machu Picchu" is a song that appears in JumpStart Reading for Second Graders.

Description
"The Tapir in Machu Picchu" plays when the player clicks on Tapir at the Machu Picchu location. Tapir himself appears to be singing the song. The song doesn't contain any educational concepts.

Lyrics
High in the Andes

Ancient Peruvians

Built this city of stone.

How did they haul

These rocks up the hill?

With their own bare hands?

By their own sheer will?

Somehow the Incas

Finished their Fortress, and

They just disappeared.

All of this land

Became overgrown

For four hundred years

It remained unknown.

Impossible! Impossible!

It's got to be impossible!

I am a tapir...

A tiny little tapir,

To me a boulder is BIG!

Machu Picchu must have been quite a dig.

Here in the city was a special stone

That was carved from a single rock,

They used this stone as a sundial -

It told the time - like a clock.

Long ago was a palace here,

And a tower to view the stars.

Where did the people go?

No one seems to know.

One day an explorer

Hiked up the mountain

Led by a native from town.

Imagine the look

He had on his face!

To find a stone fortress

In this far-off place.

Impossible! Impossible!

He must have thought impossible!

He said, "I am a human

A tiny little human

This lost city is big!

How did they move these rocks without a rig?

Machu Picchu must have been quite a dig!"

Song Credits

 * Music Composer and Producer: Randy Hale
 * Lyrics: Adryan Russ
 * Vocal Performances: Michael Gough
 * Song Arrangements: David Pinto