Caterpillar Blues

Caterpillar Blues is a song in JumpStart 2nd Grade.

Description
A song sequence for Caterpillar Blues plays when accessing the Cave Writings activity for the first time, when CJ and Edison meet Arvin. Arvin sings the song in reference to himself. Caterpillar Blues can also be listened to in the Jukebox activity, where it costs $1.87 to play it.

The song teaches some concepts about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Lyrics
I'm a caterpillar, I get no respect

People say I'm just a grubby-chubby insect

Pollen, pesticide, food denied

Brushed aside, stepped on by shoes

I've got the little-leggy-lumpy-looking

Lettuce-lunching lonely larva blues

I crawl really slow, I've got too many feet

I'm hungry all the time, all I do is eat

They say I'm a pest, I have passed

Like the rest, and look at me with ooze

I've got the backbones bug-bashing bird-biding bad bug blues

But things won't be like this when I spin my chrysalis

Come out as a beautiful butterfly

They'll see my pretty wings and my new antenna things

I'll be way up high when I fly (yeah!)

(instrumental break)

But things won't be like this with my metamorphosis

I'll be a beautiful butterfly

They'll see my pretty wings and my new antenna things

I'll be way up high when I fly

Yes, I'm a caterpillar, I get no respect

But all of that will change, I'll be a brand new insect

No more pesticide, food denied

Brushed aside, stepped on by shoes

But until then I've got lonely larva caterpillar blues

(Look out world, here I come!)

Song Credits
Original Children's Music: Mark Beckwith

Trivia

 * In the Jukebox activity, the song's title is misspelled as "Caterpiller Blues".
 * Arvin's lip sync is off when he sings the song.