25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Why We Like Spelling

[CONEYBEAR]
The chaotic life
Of a twelve-year-old
Is too hard
And you never know what’s coming next
But in spelling

[SCHWARZY]
Things have logic and line

[CONEYBEAR]
And in spelling

[SCHWARZY]
There’s a greater design

[OLIVE]
Though in school we seem strange
At the bee, we seem better

[CONEYBEAR]
As we count out each letter in our mind

[SCHWARZY]
And we find

[OLIVE]
We like spelling

[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE]
People love to hate us
‘Cause we’re too damn smart

[MARCY]
In our hearts we do not believe that we’ll succeed

[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE, MARCY]
We’re annoying

[SCHWARZY]
‘Cause we think on our feet

[OLIVE]
I’m enjoying
My new need to compete

[CONEYBEAR]
We love nouns

(spoken)
That’s our sport

(sung)
We love talcum on our towels

[OLIVE]
We love consonants and vowels
And we feel
Kinda real

[CONEYBEAR, SCHWARZY, OLIVE, MARCY]
We like spelling

[BARFEE & MARCY]
I like spelling too
It’s a way to not feel rotten

[CHIP]
All the slights are all forgotten

[OLIVE]
And you feel almost normal

[SPELLERS]
We are fearless spellers who love scary words
We’re the nerds with the dictionary on our knees

[MARCY]
Underrate us

[BARFEE]
With our chronic congestion

[MARCY]
Or debate us

[BARFEE, spoken]
That’s a stupid suggestion!

[SCHWARZY]
‘Cause we’ll pummel your butt
When we prove who knows what

[CONEYBEAR]
Though we’re frightened by the sound of the bell

[The bell sounds and the SPELLERS scream.]

[SPELLERS]
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love words
We love spelling

[CHIP]
I love spelling too
That's before I choked on "Tittup"
Losing that word brought so much shit up
That I’ll never recover!

[SPELLERS]
The chaotic life
Of a twelve-year-old
Is too hard
And you never know what’s coming next
But in spelling
Things have logic and line
And in spelling
There’s a greater design

[OLIVE]
Though in school we seem strange
At the bee we seem better

[GIRL SPELLERS]
As we count out each letter in our mind

[SPELLERS]
And we find
We love spelling
It makes us feel normal
We like spelling