Luyện nghe bài hát 14 Carrot Love

Polly by a country fence, looking over 13 carrots, laid out in a row)

Polly Darton: Oh, hi there. My name is Polly Darton, and I'd like to sing a song for you, but I can't. The song I'd like to called, "14 Carrot Love", but as you can see, I only have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 carrots. Mm-hmm.

(Benny Rabbit, with a carrot in his mouth, hops by behind her, and then to look on)

How can I sing a song about 14 carrot love, when I only have 13

(she Benny)

Uh-oh. (tries to sneak away)

Polly Darton: Look! Did you see that with that carrot?

(Benny stops, skyward, his escape foiled)

I wonder if he'd let me borrow it. (calls) bunny, bunny, bunny!

(spitting out the carrot) Hey! Don't call me Bunny! The name is Benny!

Polly Well, I'm sorry, Benny. I was wondering if I could borrow that carrot there.

Benny: (shocked) No! No way, no chance! No how! This is my carrot, and I gotta get downtown, so goodbye! (picks up in his mouth again)

Polly Darton: Oh please? You have one carrot and I have 13 carrots. (Benny puts carrot back down) If I add carrot and my 13, I'll have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2...

Yeah yeah yeah...

Polly ...3, 4...

Come on, I gotta get downtown!

Polly ...5, 6, 7, 8...

Benny: yeah yeah...

Polly ...9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 carrots.

14, yeah.

Polly Darton: And I can my song.

No, no way, forget it!

Polly Darton: Aw, Don't do it for me - do it for the little children! Please?

Benny: (Squeaks his teeth as he thinks about it) Oh, all all right all right. You can borrow my carrot. But you have to give it back. And you can't, I say you can't nibble on it, okay?

Polly Okay, okay. Thank you! Thank you, you -

Benny: yeah yeah...

Polly ...wonderful little bunny, you!

Benny: (appalled) Don't me Bunny! The name is BENNY!!!

(music starts, she now sings)

Polly Darton: These from the garden
Are as you see
In one great big
As as can be

(unimpressed) Yeah...

Polly The bunch has 13 carrots
But it takes a shove

(Benny starts into the beat)

To add carrot
And get 14 love!

14 love!

(Benny starts his teeth in time to the music)

14 love!
That is what we got -
14 love!
It's better some flowers
Or on a ring

(Benny's getting into it)

And it's all 'cause of
I have song to sing

14 carrot love!
14 love!
That's what we got -
14 love!

(music ends, but Benny keeps singing, leaning on the fence)

Benny: 14 love! 14 carrot love!

Darton: (calling to him) Hey hey! Benny! Song's over, Benny!

Benny: (still singing) That's what we've got here! 14 ca- (stops) Oh yeah yeah yeah, right right, well I gotta go anyway. Yeah yeah, I'm just gonna take my here, and get outta here ...

Polly Darton: Hey, hey you can all those carrots, Benny. Just my way of sayin' thank you.

(blown away) Oh! Oh gee, well, um ... but I don't know what to say!

Polly Darton: Aw, you know he is a sweet little bunny!

Benny: (shouting) Don't me Bunny! The name is Benny!

(squeaks his teeth as last of the song replay)