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03x16 - The Little Star That Twinkled

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Gerbert". Aired: May 1, 1988 – December 25, 1991.*
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A friendly, loveable puppet named Gerbert teaches children about making right choices and learn different lessons about life.

03x16 - The Little Star That Twinkled

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well hello there friend Rory and I are

so glad to see you you always make us

feel so good hey before we begin our

story we have something to show you

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[Laughter]

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sh

a

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uh uh-uh

[Applause]

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I just got to say I want to spend my day

with you you are my best friend I want

to share the things you do little baby

make me

smile I just want to spend my day with

you

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baby make me smile little o o wow I just

want to spend my day with

you I just want to spend my day with you

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look Rory how can anybody read this

stuff if I knew how I might be able to

learn to play it I thought all you had

to do is pick up a to and just do it

that sure doesn't sound right how can

anybody learn to play just from looking

at all those little

lollipops if I can't be the best white

B if I'm worse than all the rest why

care

if I'm only half as good as I really

wish I would be why try it

all if I can't get it right I try it I

try with all my heart and

soul if I give it all I've got and still

I'm not so hot oh I try it

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all there's so many things i' like to

do I try my best but it's no

use when I fail I feel so small so why

even try at

all there there so many things I'd like

to

do I try my best but it's no

use when I fail I feel so small so why

even try I think I'm going to cry why

even

try and all

wolf

King

a a d e u

s

moort just think Rory he wrote Twinkle

Twinkle Little Star when he was just a

little bitty

good I wonder what this Mozart was

really like he must have been some kind

of Genius to write Twinkle Twinkle

Little

Star I guess I'm not a genius at all

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a

[Applause]

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[Applause]

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Rory did you have to do that this

morning oh no Rory I don't want to wear

the wig today and I don't want to wear

those stiff cloes either

today all I want to do

is play today is

play

yippe I want to be like all the other

children I want to run and skip and play

hopscotch on a sidewalk I want to laugh

and Shout Yahoo I want to swing on a

silver swing set I want to play I want

to play K the can Red Rover Red Rover

let Mozart come

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over I want a dress like all the other

boys no more fancy

clothes relax roro the mro will

understand he was a little boy once

himself you

know roro my baseball camp

thank

you today is play day today we run and

jump and swing a Come What May Day just

like the first day e

spring and your waights outside our

door that's what a day like today is for

today is play day we'll laugh and sing

and dance about oh what a great day I

feel so good I want to

sh Adventure wakes outside our

door that's what a daylight today is

for that's why a daylight today is a

super good bir day is that's what this

wonderful day

is today is play day we'll play like we

never had before

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[Applause]

stay here for more

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ger okay kids here comes

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gber oh L Rory isn't this

grand

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grand you said Grand Master Mo it's the

only thing Grand about your morning

Master moar there'll be practice on the

grand

piano

practice

again practice must I really practice

again my strong indeed my little genius

practice makes

perfect what in the world are you doing

in those

Rags we must work oh please mro let it

be time to way sh you were once a little

boy yourself never and don't call me

Shirley I was born old and poor this is

just what you'll be if you spend your

youth ramping and and and piddling and

pursuing such

Folly you are a gifted child we must

develop that talent to its Highest

Potential you must rest

Ah that's my little

wory the king and the queen were very

pleased with your performance last night

I've been playing two concerts a day for

the last 6 weeks I wish we could stop

long enough for me to play Oh wolfy

playing games as for ordinary boys you

are special then you play you startle

and Delight your audience you share your

blessed

gift practice practice

practice practice practice practice

that's all I ever do practice eat

perform sleep practice eat perform sleep

practice perform sleep practice for

Sleep practice for Sleep practice

perform sleep practice perform sleep

that's what I do all week but I never

get to

play practice de perform sleep some may

think my life's neat but I have

something to

say even though I am a genius I'm still

a little boy I may play for kings and

princes but there's more that i'

enjoy I'd like to be an ordinary fellow

eat with cream and jell and make a giant

M I'd like to play and Run and Jump and

holl put a frog in someone's collar and

be like all the

rest

super

super

super practice a perform sleep learning

doesn't come cheap though sometimes I

wish it

would practice keep perform sleep

practice more and I'll keep playing as

good as I

should even when I don't feel like it

practice always helps me learn and I

know I'll play much better when the M

said your turn i' like to be an ordinary

fellow eat wh cream and Jell-O and make

a giant mess I like to be a kid like all

the rest but to be the best I'll

practice ever more I like to be

anary eat with and yellow and

giant don't go away girl will be right

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back and now more G

Mory every seat in the theater has been

sold the audience is glittering with

jewels laughter Tinkles like a breeze

through a crystal chandelier there is

even a British Earl who has traveled

many miles to hear you play perhaps he

might ask you to go to England to play

for their Kink hurry now

hurry roro my Wiggy poo

hurry it is

time thank you thank you thank you thank

you very

much thank you

[Music]

thank you thank you thank

you I guess the only way to be as good

as I'd like to be is to

practice practice practice practice

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if you want to be as good as you can you

got to try with all your heart and

soul if at first you're not a hit don't

you go and quit just keep moving

on well you know it might not feel so

simple though it's not an easy thing to

do if you want to succeed practice is

what you need you'll be playing

good if it first you don't

succeed practice is the thing you

need if you don't feel so small it

happens to us all

the

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if it first you don't

succeed practice is the thing you

need if you don't feel so small it

happens to us

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all see you later alligator hell was

that

Rory well thank you for spending part of

your day with me friend I always like

being with you I think you're so needle

oh before we go

[Applause]

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oh ahop

[Applause]

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I love you friend remember keep

wondering keep dreaming cuz that's how

you grow after a while crocodile

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[Applause]

wow what a neat letter H I just love it

when people write me letters you can't

to here's

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how Texas in my 3

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54 hi I'm gerbert I like learning new

things sometimes they take a lot of

practice but the more you practice the

better you get at it do you have

something you're learning about reading

or learning to play a musical instrument

I hope you'll find one if if you don't

have one already because learning is a

lot of fun see you later alligator