Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (song)

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"Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" is a song made famous by the vocal group Rockapella, and currently performed by that group as well as former group leader Sean Altman, who co-wrote the song with David Yazbek. It was the theme song to the award-winning PBS-TV game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? that ran on PBS from 1991 to 1995. Every episode of the show ended with Rockapella singing the song, surrounded by a gleefully dancing studio audience. Rockapella's original recording appears on the 1992 BMG/Zoom Express album Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? and Television's Greatest Hits Volume 7: Cable Ready (TVT 1996). The song has stayed in the public eye via "The Today Show" (NBC-TV), which has licensed the song for its annual "Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?" campaign in the years 2000-2005.

[edit] Lyrics

The lyics of the song contain many references to, and puns on, place names around the world. Some examples are:

• "She’s a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize"
• "Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry uncle"
• "From the Red Sea to Greenland they’ll be singing the blues"
• "Well they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle"
• "Well she’ll ransack Pakistan & run a scam in Scandinavia."
• "Then she’ll stick ‘em up Down Under & go pick-pocket Perth"
• "She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima"