ZOOM lyrics

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page originally published on 6 July 2020; latest edit: 19 May 2022

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lyrics to ZOOM (original series, 1972-1978) songs, transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff)

  • Come On and ZOOM (Newton Wayland)
  • Send it to ZOOM (Newton Wayland) – seasons 1 and 2 — titled “Address Song – Send It To Zoom!” on the 1974 album Come On and ZOOM
  • Always Friends (Jeri Dreifuss)
  • Fannee Doolee (Theresa Zamorski, Newton Wayland)
  • at least partly written by Newton Wayland, ZOOM musical director:
    • Send it to ZOOM #2 –  titled “Address Song #1” on the 1977 ZOOM Tunes album
    • Send it to ZOOM #3 –  actual title unknown
    • SASE song (season 4) – actual title unknown
    • Blue Balloon (Newton Wayland*)
    • Zoomba – actual title unknown
    • SASE song (season 5) – actual title unknown

some others not yet transcribed

  • early ‘Write ZOOM’ song featuring the same music as “Send it to ZOOM” but mostly different lyrics (season 1)
  • “Little Red Riding Hood” – season 4
  • “Zoomba,” long version – season 4
  • “City Child #1,” and “City Child #2” – tracks on the 1977 album ZOOM Tunes; season 4 production number where the cast members are seen playing on the streets of Boston
  • “Address Song #2” – track on the 1977 album ZOOM Tunes; possibly used in season 4 or 5 of ZOOM

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Come On and Zoom (Newton Wayland) season 1 version —  lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff) on 23 January 2017; minor edit on 6 August 2017

Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom-a zoom
You gotta zoom, zoom, zoom-a zoom
Everybody’s doin’ it, everybody’s movin’ it
Everybody’s havin’ a ball, yeah!

So won’t you zoom, zoom, zoom-a zoom?
Come on and zoom-a zoom-a zoom-a zoom

I’m Joe
I’m Nina
I’m Kenny
My name’s Tracy
I’m Tommy
I’m Nancy
I’m Jon

Who are you?
What do you do?
How are you?
Let’s hear from you!
We need you!

We’re gonna zoom, zoom zoom-a zoom
Come on and zoom-a zoom-a zoom-a zoom
Come on, give it a try
We’re gonna show you just why
We’re gonna teach you to fly high!

Come on and zoom!
Come on and zoom zoom!
(Repeat last two lines)

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Send it to ZOOM (Newton Wayland) –  lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff) on 27 July 2017, from the season 1 (1972) version; latest edit: c. October 2020 — The song was also performed by Season 2 (1972-1973), cast 1 of 3 on the show. A version of the song titled “Address Song – Send It To Zoom!” appears on the 1974 album Come On and ZOOM.

Say you wake up in the middle of the night
You got an idea that’s outta sight

So you jump out of bed, look around your room
You gotta write it down and send it to ZOOM

Or say you’ve just seen something on this show
Or someone cool you just gotta know

Write it all down, don’t make a mess
And don’t forget your name and address

Include a stamp so we can drop you a card
Then dip your note in a bucket of lard

Joe doesn’t know what he’s talking about
You put it in an envelope, without a doubt

Then take your typewriter, pencil, or pen
And if you make a mistake you gotta do it again

Write ZOOM Z-double-O-M
Box 3-5-0
Boston MASS 02134

on lyric variants:

  • In the season 2, cast 1 of 3, version, line 3 is changed to “You’re gonna write it all down and send it to ZOOM,” and line 11 is changed to “David doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
  • In the version on the 1974 Come On and ZOOM album, which also features some other variations from the original lyric, lines 11 and 12 go

Lard’s what you use for soap, you dope
You put your note in an envelope

  • The address section forms a coda in all versions of the song, but the version on the 1974 Come On and ZOOM album has an extension added to end of the coda where all sing “Send It to ZOOM!” The revised coda, with the “Send it to ZOOM!” ending, was subsequently included at the end of later ZOOM address and SASE songs.

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Always Friends (Jeri Dreifuss) — lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff), 22 Jan 2017

We didn’t want to say goodbye
To each other, so we tried
In our hearts to find a way
That we wouldn’t have to close the door
On each other — We were sure
In our hearts that we should stay

We really do belong a team
And we had the simple dream
That we wouldn’t have to break apart
And so, even as the music ends
We remain just like the start
Always friends

I never want to say goodbye
To a friend — I don’t know why
Other people think it’s fine
To say “Guess we’ll call it all a day”
No, we won’t let that be us
There’s so much of you that’s mine

So, seems like we were meant to be
And I guess the world can see
Nothing can be done to change this heart
And so, even as the music ends
We remain just like the start
Always friends

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  • See the post Fannee Doolee for videos featuring the following song.

Fannee Doolee (Theresa Zamorski, Newton Wayland) — lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff), on 26 April 2021, from a production number performed in ZOOM, Season 2, Episode 1

Who is Fannee Doolee?

F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E
F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E

Once, to be funny, Fannee Doolee replied
There’s something about me that I cannot hide
I hate to read, but I love a good book
I hate to bake, but it’s fun to cook
I hate colors, but I do love green
I hate centers, but love things in between

Golly gee, Fannee Doolee
When are you gonna tell us who ya be, be, be?
Won’t you give us a clue
Tell us whadda we do, what do we do
To find out who you be

F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E
F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E

I hate to learn, but I think schools are groovy
Cartoons are a ball, but I can’t stand a movie
I’m a friend to both rabbits and bunnies
In newspapers all I read are the funnies
Hot weather’s a drag, but I really dig summer
Don’t like to sing, but, oh boy, I’m a hummer

Golly gee, Fannee Doolee
When are you gonna tell us who ya be, be, be?
Won’t you give us a clue
Tell us whadda we do, what do we do
To find out who you be

F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E (5 times)

Good reason there is for this rhymable rhyme
And if you don’t know what I mean by this time
Listen not to the words that are in the telling
Hurry and take a quick look at the spelling

F, A, double N, double E, D, double O, L, double E (3 times)

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The following song is titled “Address Song #1” on the 1977 ZOOM Tunes album. However, I’ve decided to call it “Send it to ZOOM #2,” here, and elsewhere on the site. I believe the song was introduced by cast 2 of 3 of ZOOM, Season 2. They sang it in the closing. It was also performed by cast 3 of Season 2.

Send it to ZOOM #2 – at least partly written by Newton Wayland
lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff), 8 July 2020

You got an idea sitting on the shelf
Send it to ZOOM
Send it to ZOOM

Or a poem or a play that you wrote yourself
Send it to ZOOM
Send it to ZOOM

A story or a riddle that no one can guess
Or something for the barrel that’s a sure success
Well, you write it all down with your name and address
‘Cause you still gotta send it to ZOOM
Whom?

Why, ZOOM Z-double-O-M
Box 3-5-0
Boston MASS 02134

Send it to ZOOM!

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Send it to ZOOM #3 – at least partly written by Newton Wayland; actual title unknown
lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff), 26 July 2020

Special idea?
Yeah.
Wow!
Write it yourself?
Yep.
Send it now!
Send it where?
Send it to ZOOM.
Send it to whom?

Poem or thought?
A play?
Whatever you got.
Take your time.
A story or game?
You bet!
A riddle, a feeling you get.
Now why don’t you send it to ZOOM
Whom?

Name and address.
A stamp?
Yeah.
A SASE too?
Of course.
Now why don’t you send it to ZOOM.

Write ZOOM Z-double-O-M
Box 3-5-0
Boston MASS 02134.

Send it to ZOOM, yeah!

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SASE song (season 4) – at least partly written by Newton Wayland; actual title unknown
lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff) on 23 October 2020

Here in the land of the Zooma tree
We’re waiting for you to send a SASE
‘Cause if you want ZOOM to send a ZOOM card to you
Then that’s the very thing that you have to do

Well, what the heck is a SASE?

If you don’t know now, don’t you give up hope
It’s a self-addressed stamped envelope
Self-addressed, that means addressed to yourself
Add a stamp, and then it will return itself

I get it, SASE means self-addressed stamped envelope.
But what the heck to you do with a SASE?

Take another envelope and a pencil or pen
In the upper left corner write your name again
Your number and your street and your city and state
And don’t forget the zip, so you won’t have to wait

Okay, okay, but what happens to the SASE?

Take whatever you want to send to ZOOM
And put it in the envelope, but leave some room
Now take your SASE and fold it right
And put it in the envelope and seal it tight

Then, on the envelope…

Write ZOOM Z-double-O-M
Box 3-5-0
Boston MASS 02134

Send it to ZOOM!

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Blue Balloon (Newton Wayland, Christine Stark*)
lyric transcribed by doc (Jim Radcliff), 2 July 2020

If you were on the moon
What would you do?
Would you play,
Would you eat,
Would you build a zoo?
A zoo?

How would you get there
To build a zoo?
In a plane,
In a train,
In a blue balloon?

Come fly away
In a blue balloon
Up to the moon
Fly high away
In a blue balloon
Gonna visit the man in the moon
(Or maybe it’s a woman)

Who would you take,
Your sister or aunt?
Would you take animals,
Like a horse,
Or maybe a plant?
A plant?

What would you eat?
What would you eat?
Maybe carrots, ice cream,
Or how about a beet?
How about a beet?

Come fly away
In a blue balloon
Up to the moon
Fly high away
In a blue balloon
Gonna visit the man in the moon
(I’m sure that it’s a woman)

What would wear
If it’s cold up there?
Would you wear shorts
Or sweaters
Or coats made of hair?
Of hair? Bleah!

But how would you get there?
You haven’t told me that
How do you know you’ll get there
For a fact?
For a fact

Maybe it’s a dream
Or maybe it’s true
But if you ever get there
You know what to do
To play and eat
And to build a zoo

I really hope to go with you
If you want me to

Come fly away
In a blue balloon
Up to the moon
Fly high away
In a blue balloon
Gonna visit the man in the moon

(repeat last section 2 x)

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Zoomba – at least partly written by Newton Wayland; actual title unknown
lyric transcribed by doc, 26 July 2020

First you move it around a bit
Then you shake it about a bit
Now you twist around a bit
Then you swing it about a bit

Now you know
Know know know know
Now you see
See see see see
You’re wooing with me

Kanyaka boomba boomba boomba
Come on and Zoomba Zoomba Zoomba
Kanyaka boomba boomba boomba
Come on and Zoomba-Zoomba-Zoomba-Zoomba Zoomba

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SASE song (season 5) – at least partly written by Newton Wayland; actual title unknown
lyric transcribed by doc, 29 October 2020**

How many envelopes?
Send us two
A big one for ZOOM
And a small one for you

Put your name on the small one
Your house and your street
And your city and state
Hey, that’s neat!

But where’s the stamp?
You almost forgot
That’s very important
Yeah, thanks a lot

The bigger one’s easy
You know what to do
Drop everything in it
And then rush it to…

To ZOOM Z-double-O-M
Box 3-5-0
Boston MASS 02134

Send it to ZOOM!

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* The back of the 1977 ZOOM Tunes album indicates that “[a]ll original tunes and arrangements” are by Newton Wayland, Musical Director of ZOOM. However, some of the original songs are based on poems sent to ZOOM by various children. The words to “Blue Balloon” are based on a poem by Christine Stark, age 10, of Middle Village, NY. The “City Child” lyric is based on poems by three different children, ages 8-10. On the ZOOM Tunes album, there are two versions of “City Child,” titled “City Child #1” and “City Child #2.”

In the introduction to “City Child,” as it appears in an episode of the show, cast member David Sales identifies the contributing children as Valerie Lacy of Chicago, Illinois; Patricia Kaline of Manchester, New Hampshire; and Tammy Fishnick of Berlin, Illinois.

** ‘SASE song (season 5)’ lyric transcription — In the “cheerleader” version of the number, the question “To whom?” is asked (by Levell) before the “To ZOOM Z-double-O-M” section.

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