The Ants Go Marching (Metamorphosis)
An "Ants Go Marching" parody that walks a butterfly through every stage of metamorphosis — egg, hatching caterpillar, growing caterpillar, eating caterpillar, chrysalis, emerging butterfly.
The bugs go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah! The bugs go marching one by one, The little egg sits in the sun — And they all go marching through a body that is changing — boom boom boom!
The bugs go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah! The egg cracks open, peeking through — A caterpillar — chomp chomp chomp! — Eats and grows and ROMP romp romp! boom boom boom!
(quiet) The bug stops marching, hurrah, hurrah! It hangs upside down, it stays alive, A chrysalis hard, a chrysalis still — But INSIDE, INSIDE, the magic's at WILL! shhh shhh shhh!
The bugs go marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah! The chrysalis cracks — out wiggles a fix! Wet wings unfold, wet wings DRY, A BUTTERFLY ready to FLY! And it goes flapping in a body that is finished — zoom zoom zoom!