CHORUS:
Some live days, some live years,
that's life, life span
A life cycle for everything is part of
the whole plan-et
That's life

Amoeba is a single cell,
how long he lives no one can tell
A turtle may well live to be
one hundred and thirty
A dog will be your lifelong friend,
fifteen years right to the end
An alligator you will see
can live to be fifty

A redwood tree is very old,
three thousand years, or so I'm told
It's very rare that you or me
will live to be one century
(That's one hundred years)
A mayfly he will live and die
In just one day, his life goes by
An elephant for sixty years
will flap his giant ears

Every living thing you see
has a special role that it will play
A lifetime is how long you live
until it is your time to pass away
That's okay

A birthday party in the sea,
a great blue whale turns seventy
Bald eagles can often soar
until they're forty-four
All things live, all things die,
important to the chain of life
Our different cycles start at birth
We help each other live upon the earth