Hands On Your Ears

Hands On Your Ears is a Wiggles song from the 2007 DVD, Getting Strong! written by Kathleen Warren.

Song Credits

 * Music, Lyrics and Arrangement: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page, Kathleen Warren
 * Musical Arrangement: The Wiggles, Dominic Lindsay
 * Producer: Anthony Field
 * Engineer and Mixer: ?
 * Recording Location: Hot Potato Studios
 * Publisher: Wiggly Tunes
 * Copyright: Universal Music Group

Musicians

 * Vocals - Paul Paddick
 * Bass - Chris Lupton
 * Electric and Acoustic Guitar - John Field
 * Piano - Dominic Lindsay
 * Organ - Dominic Lindsay
 * Bouzouki - George Tseros
 * Drums/Percussion - Anthony Howe
 * Trumpet - Dominic Lindsay
 * Clarinet - Anita Thomas

Song Lyrics
Captain Feathersword: Let's all do an exercise song, me hearties.

(singing) Hands on your ears, bend and touch your toes

Hands on your waist, fingers on your nose

Walk on your toes, stretch up tall

Now walk on your heels and be sure you don't fall!

(stops singing) Ho-ho, that was great, me hearties. This time, we're gonna go a little faster. Really get the heartbeat going.

(singing) Step to the front, jump up and down

Spread your arms wide and you turn around

Run on the spot, this is what you do

Now jump around the room like a kangaroo

(stops singing) Hoo-hoo-hoo! Wow, that was great, me hearties. But now, we're gonna slow it down. Sort of like a warm-down. Here we go.

(singing) Arms up wide, swing them to the back

Swing them round in circles and you make your body slack

Bend from the waist, turn from side to side

Roll your shoulders round and round and stretch your legs wide

(stops singing) Ho-ho, well done, me hearties.

Songwriting

 * Kathleen Warren wrote the lyrics for this song with Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field and Greg Page while Murray, Jeff & Anthony wrote the music.
 * In the album's songwriter credits it only mentioned The Wiggles and Kathleen Warren while in the video's songwriter credits it mentions The Wiggles, John Field, Dominic Lindsay and Kathleen Warren. but the album and video versions are the same.
 * Murray, Jeff, Anthony, and Greg arranged the music. They also arranged the lyrics with Kathleen.

Origins

 * A similar song called Up, Down, Turn Around was later performed 5 years later, on Surfer Jeff.
 * In the video, John Field, Dominic Lindsay, John O'Grady, Anthony Howe, George Tseros, and Anita Thomas play music on screen.
 * For some reason, none of The Wiggles played any of the instruments during this song's recording sessions.

Idea

 * Kathleen Warren came up with an idea for this song at Hot Potato Studios.