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 by former group leader Sean Altman, who co-wrote the song with David Yazbek. It was the theme song to the Peabody Award-winning game show of the same name that ran on PBS from 1991 to 1996. 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 maintained public awareness via The Today Show (NBC-TV), which licensed the song for its annual "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?" campaign in the years 2000–2005.

[edit] Lyrics

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

• "Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina"
• "She’s a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize"
• "She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China"
• "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 and run a scam in Scandinavia"
• "Then she’ll stick 'em up Down Under and go pickpocket Perth"
• "She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima"

[edit] External links

• Lyrics for this song provided by LyricWiki

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