You Oughta Be Saving Water

"You Oughta Be Saving Water" is a Schoolhouse Rock! Earth song sung by Dewey Drop and the Drips (voiced by Sean Altman, Elliott Kerman, and Barry Carl, who were former members of the vocal group Rockapella). The song focuses on water conservation.

Song Lyrics[]

Dewey Drop: One, two, three.

Men: (singing) If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you oughtta (Hey!)

You oughtta, (Hey!) you oughtta, (Hey!) you oughtta (Hey!)

Dewey Drop: That's right.

Men: If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you oughtta

Dewey Drop: Here we go.

(singing) You know you can't live without me

Our relationship's gone real swell

And I've always been right there for you

But I'm not a bottomless well

No, no, no, no, no

We both wanna go on forever

But I'm having my doubt

It seems strange, but without a change

Our love might end in a drought

Men: If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you oughtta (Dewey Drop: Hey, hey)

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you ought, you oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

Dewey Drop: Second verse.

(singing) Give a faucet an assist with a twist

You can stop that drip

Water: Every day you save a whole 20 gallons

Dewey Drop: Take a minute shorter shower

Use a water-saving head, get hip

Water: Every month save 1500 gallons

Dewey Drop: Washing clothes or dishes, fill up the machine

Water: 800

Dewey Drop: Keep the hose closed while you scrub your car clean

Water: 600

Dewey Drop: If you're not conserving water

You ought to, you ought, you ought to

You ought to, you ought, you ought to

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

(speaking) Bridge over troubled water.

All: You might forget that I'm more than a drink

People use water for more than you think

Farmers, factories, cities and towns

Draining, draining reservoirs down

Underground aquifers serve many homes

Too many wells suck them dry as a bone

We can't let our water just go down the drain

You can keep helping without too much pain

Drip, drip, drip

Dewey Drop: If your lawn isn't wilting

It don't need water at all

Water: Every month save thousands of gallons

Dewey Drop: Clean your driveway with a broom, not a hose

That's a real smart call

Water: Every month you can save 600 gallons

Dewey Drop: It's okay to use me but please don't abuse me

Show me you're ready and we'll keep going steady

Keep me treating right and our future looks bright

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

If you're not conserving water

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

You oughtta, you oughtta, you ought oughtta

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Media
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Songs

Schoolhouse Rocky
Multiplication: My Hero, Zero • Elementary, My Dear • Three is a Magic Number • The Four-Legged Zoo • Ready or Not, Here I Come • I Got Six • Lucky Seven Sampson • Figure Eight • Naughty Number Nine • The Good Eleven • Little Twelvetoes
Grammar: Unpack Your Adjectives • Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here • Conjunction Junction • Interjections! • Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla • Verb: That's What's Happening • A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing • Busy Prepositions • The Tale of Mr. Morton
America: No More Kings • Fireworks • The Shot Heard 'Round the World • The Preamble • Elbow Room • The Great American Melting Pot • Mother Necessity • Sufferin' Till Suffrage • I'm Just a Bill • Three Ring Government • I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College • Presidential Minute
Science: The Body Machine • Do the Circulation • Electricity, Electricity • The Energy Blues • Interplanet Janet • Telegraph Line • Them Not-So-Dry Bones • A Victim of Gravity • The Weather Show
Money: Dollars and Sense • $7.50 Once a Week • Where the Money Goes • Tax Man Max • Walkin' on Wall Street • This for That • Tyrannosaurus Debt • The Check's in the Mail
Earth: Report from the North Pole • The Little Things We Do • The Trash Can Band • You Oughta Be Saving Water • The Rainforest • Save the Ocean • Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song • A Tiny Urban Zoo • Solar Power to the People • Windy and the Windmills • Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch • The Three R's

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Schoolhouse Rocky • Lucky Seven Sampson • Bill • Interplanet Janet