"The Great Big Book of Everything" is a song from Playhouse Disney's Stanley about the The Great Big Book of Everything. Mentions of the book and getting the book cause a problem for Stanley's best friend and pet goldfish Dennis because it always gets his fellow pets Harry and Elsie's attention, and they always sing the book's theme song, which Dennis finds irritating.
The lyrics to the first half of the song always stays the same (but only when it comes to the book)*, while how the second half goes depends on what animal the episode is about.
The album version is longer, with more and original lyrics created for the album.
(* An alternate version is used when Stanley and whoever accompanies him is researching on the Internet.)
Lyrics[]
Harry:
Where do you go
When you need to know
And you've run up against a wall?
Elsie:
We know what to do
Let your fingers perrruse
Harry and Elsie:
That thick, beefy book with it all
Elsie:
With it all
Harry and Elsie:
It's The Great Big Book of Everything
With everything inside
See the world around us
This book's the perfect guide
With everything from A to zoo
Just by flipping through
Elsie:
Know how, show how
From kangaroo to moo cow
The scuttlebutt from soup to nuts
Harry, Elsie, and Stanley:
We can look it up
Harry:
Info, to go
From cockatoo to buffalo
Harry and Elsie:
All the scoop from A to zoo
Just by flipping through
It's The Great Big Book of Everything
With everything inside
See the world around us
This book's the perfect guide
Everything from A to zoo
Just by flipping through
Elsie:
Oh yeah.
Harry:
Uh huh. Ha ha ha. You go, girl!
Harry and Elsie:
We can look it up!
Elsie:
Yeah!
From your bow-wow
Harry:
To your meow
Elsie:
It's in the book
Harry and Elsie:
You bet!
In The Great Big Book of Everything
They fly and creep and crawl
Fur or fins or feathers
This book has got 'em all
It's The Great Big Book of Everything
With everything inside
See the world around us
This book's the perfect guide.
Harry:
Cockatoo? Gotta look that up.
It's The Great Big Book of Everything
With everything inside
See the world around us
This book's the perfect guide.
Now we're going online
To find out everything
We'll surf the Internet
For the answers it can bring
The World Wide Web's the way to go
To find the things we need to know.
