Boundin’ poem written by Bud Luckey
Here’s a story on how strange is life with its changes,
and it happened not long ago.
On a high mountain plain where the sagebrush arranges
a playground south of the snow
lived a lamb with a coat of remarkable sheen
it would glint in the sunlight all sparkly and clean.
Such a source of great pride that it caused him to preen,
and he’d break out in high steps and dance.
He would dance for his neighbors across the way.
I must say that they found his dancing enhancing
for they’d also join in the play.
Then one day…
The animated short shows the proud sheep is kidnapped and dumped back after being sheered,
Then a boundin’ up the slope
came a great American jackalope.
This sage of the sage, this rare hare of hope
caused to pause and check out the lamb.
“Hey, Kid, why the mope?”
“I used to be something all covered with fluff,
and I’d dance in the sunlight and show off my stuff.
Then they hauled me away in a manner quite rough
and they sheared me and dropped me back here in the buff.
And if that’s not enough, now my friends all laugh at me
’cause they think I look ridiculous, funny and pink.”
“Pink? Pink?! Well, what’s wrong with pink?
Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think.
Does it matter what color? Well, that gets ‘nope.’
Be it pink, purple or heliotrope.
Now sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down,
When you find that you’re down, well just look around;
You still got a body, good legs and fine feet.
Get your head in the right place and hey, you’re complete!
“Now as for the dancin’, you can do more.
You can reach great heights, in fact you can soar.
You just get a leg up and you slap it on down,
and you’ll find you’re up in what’s called a bound.
Bound, bound and rebound,
bound and you’re up right next to the sky.
And I think you can do it if you give it a try.
First get a leg up, slap it on down.”
So every year, ‘long about May,
they’d load him up and they’d haul him away,
and they’d shave him and dump him all naked and bare.
He learned to live with it, he didn’t care.
He just bound, bound, bound and rebound.
Now in this world of ups and downs,
so nice to know there are jackalopes around.
Boundin’ is a 2003 Pixar computer-animated short film, which was shown in theaters before the feature-length film
A dancing sheep loses his groove when all his wool is sheared off. Can he find the drive to dance again?
Release date: November 5, 2004
(USA)Director: Bud Luckey
Narrator: Bud Luckey
Screenplay: Bud Luckey
Initial DVD release: March 15, 2005
Cast: Bud Luckey