Kinetic and Potential Energy

KINETIC AND POTENTIAL ENERGY

1. The rolling boulder crashing down the mountain,
Thaaaat’s Kinetic Energy (Kinetic!)
The boulder sitting high up on the mountain —
Thaaaat’s Potential Energy (Potential!)

Chorus.
Energy in motion is Kinetic
Energy that’s waiting is Potential
But whether it’s Kinetic or Potential
Boooooth of them are energy!
Ole!

2. You stretch a rubber band and then release it —
Thaaaat’s Kinetic Energy (Kinetic!)
You stretch a rubber band and then you hold it —
Thaaaat’s Potential Energy (Potential!)

3. The heat that comes when gasoline is burning —
Thaaaat’s Kinetic Energy (Kinetic!)
The energy that gasoline has stored up —
Thaaaat’s Potential Energy (Potential!)

— from “Ballads for the Age of Science,” by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer
— recorded by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans, “Energy & Motion Songs”
Motivation Records MR 0314, Argosy Music Corporation, NYC