Electricity, Electricity

"Electricity, Electricity" is a song in Schoolhouse Rock!, which can be seen in Science Rock. The song teaches listeners about electricity.

The Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks cover by Goodness has the only music video to have any live-action clips, particularly by the band. Although Pearl Jam's Mike McReady participates, he does not appear in the video.

Lyrics[]

When you're in the dark and you want to see,
You need uh...
Electricity, electricity

Flip that switch and what do you get?
You get, uh...
Electricity, electricity

Every room can now be lit
With just, uh...
Electricity, electricity

Where do you think it all comes from?
This powerful...
Electricity, electricity

Through high wires to here it comes,
They're bringing, uh...
Electricity, electricity

Every building must be wired
To use it, uh...
Electricity, electricity

Power plants most all use fire
To make it, uh...
Electricity, electricity

Burnin' fuel and usin' steam,
They generate...
Electricity, electricity

Turn that generator by any means,
You're making uh...
Electricity, electricity

A generator is a machine that contains a powerful magnet that creates a magnetic field.
When wires are rotated rapidly through this field, then a current of electricity is produced.

Now, if we only had a superhero who could stand here and turn the generator real fast, (Electricity, electricity)
Then we wouldn't need to burn so much fuel to make...
Electricity, electricity

Benjamin Franklin flying his kite
Was searchin' for...
Electricity, electricity

He knew that it had somethin' to do with lightnin',
It's all uh...
Electricity, electricity

Rubbin' a comb with wool or fur will give you
A charge of static...
Electricity, electricity

Strokin' a cat to make it purr,
You're buildin' up static...
Electricity, electricity

Electricity at rest is called static electricity. Like in the winter, wearing a heavy coat, you get a shock off the doorknob.
Or you scrape across a carpet and sneak up on your very best friend,
and zap him on the ear with a shock of-
Electricity, electricity

Current flowing to and fro,
Makes a circuit of
Electricity, electricity

Voltage is the pressure that makes it go
It's pushin' uh...
Electricity, electricity

Watts will tell you just how much
You'll be usin', uh...
Electricity, electricity

Powerful stuff, so watch that plug!
It's potent
Electricity, electricity

Electricity, electricity
(fade)

Trivia[]

The song is sung by Zachary Sanders and shows a superhero; however, it is not Verb. (Verb would be an obvious "callback" choice.)
When the song was included on Disney+, the flashing "Electricity" words are slowed down to prevent seizures.
Voted #4 of the top 25 favorite Schoolhouse Rock! songs.

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Media
Schoolhouse Rock! • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong

Songs

Schoolhouse Rocky
Multiplication: My Hero, Zero • Elementary, My Dear • Three is a Magic Number • The Four-Legged Zoo • Ready or Not, Here I Come • I Got Six • Lucky Seven Sampson • Figure Eight • Naughty Number Nine • The Good Eleven • Little Twelvetoes
Grammar: Unpack Your Adjectives • Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here • Conjunction Junction • Interjections! • Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla • Verb: That's What's Happening • A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing • Busy Prepositions • The Tale of Mr. Morton
America: No More Kings • Fireworks • The Shot Heard 'Round the World • The Preamble • Elbow Room • The Great American Melting Pot • Mother Necessity • Sufferin' Till Suffrage • I'm Just a Bill • Three Ring Government • I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College • Presidential Minute
Science: The Body Machine • Do the Circulation • Electricity, Electricity • The Energy Blues • Interplanet Janet • Telegraph Line • Them Not-So-Dry Bones • A Victim of Gravity • The Weather Show
Money: Dollars and Sense • $7.50 Once a Week • Where the Money Goes • Tax Man Max • Walkin' on Wall Street • This for That • Tyrannosaurus Debt • The Check's in the Mail
Earth: Report from the North Pole • The Little Things We Do • The Trash Can Band • You Oughta Be Saving Water • The Rainforest • Save the Ocean • Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song • A Tiny Urban Zoo • Solar Power to the People • Windy and the Windmills • Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch • The Three R's

Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
Theme • Hardware • Software • Number Cruncher

Characters
Schoolhouse Rocky • Lucky Seven Sampson • Bill • Interplanet Janet