0:00:05 > 0:00:11Hello! Come on, everybody, take a seat.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Wow!
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Woo!
0:00:14 > 0:00:15BOTH: Hello!
0:00:15 > 0:00:18- BOTH:- Hello!
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Wiggle your fingers and cross your feet.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26Are you ready?
0:00:26 > 0:00:31One, two, three, watch me.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37Four, five, six, I've got some tricks.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42Seven, eight, nine, it's almost time.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43Ten!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46ALL: Magic hands!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Just look at my magic
0:00:49 > 0:00:51# My magic hands
0:00:51 > 0:00:54# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:00:54 > 0:00:55Magic Hands!
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- BOTH:- Hello!
0:01:02 > 0:01:03My name is...
0:01:07 > 0:01:09And my name is...
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Look at what my hands can do!
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Oh, look! It's a hat.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I wonder who would wear a hat like that.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34I'd like to wear a hat like that if I was dressing up.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35Who could I be?
0:01:36 > 0:01:37Hang on...
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Don't we know a poem about a man who wore a hat just like that?
0:01:43 > 0:01:45He was called The Pied Piper,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49and he played magic music on a pipe, like this...
0:01:52 > 0:01:56His story is told in a poem by a very famous poet called
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Robert Browning.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02It's called The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Do you want to hear it?
0:02:09 > 0:02:13The story begins in a little village that was overrun by lots
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and lots of rats.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Eeurgh!
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Then the magic piper came along.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Are you ready to hear about what he did?
0:02:47 > 0:02:52Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, by famous Hanover City.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58The river Weser, deep and wide,
0:02:58 > 0:03:01washes its wall on the southern side.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05A pleasanter spot you never spied.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08But, when begins my ditty,
0:03:08 > 0:03:12almost 500 years ago,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14to see the townsfolk suffer so
0:03:14 > 0:03:17from vermin, was a pity.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Aargh!
0:03:30 > 0:03:31Rats!
0:03:34 > 0:03:36They fought the dogs
0:03:36 > 0:03:40and killed the cats,
0:03:40 > 0:03:43made nests inside men's Sunday hats...
0:03:46 > 0:03:50..and even spoiled the women's chats,
0:03:50 > 0:03:52by drowning their speaking
0:03:52 > 0:03:55with shrieking and squeaking
0:03:55 > 0:04:02in 50 different sharps and flats.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Did you see those rats?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Aren't they horrible?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Well, the people of the town get together with the mayor
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and talk about how they really need help.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Suddenly, there's a knock at the door.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:04:28 > 0:04:31"Come in," the mayor cried, looking bigger...
0:04:33 > 0:04:36..and in did come the strangest figure.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43His queer long coat from heel to head
0:04:43 > 0:04:46was half of yellow and half of red.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53And nobody could enough admire
0:04:53 > 0:04:57the tall man and his quaint attire.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03He advanced to the council-table
0:05:03 > 0:05:07and, "Please, your honours," said he, "I'm able,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10"by means of a secret charm, to draw
0:05:10 > 0:05:14"all creatures living beneath the sun,
0:05:14 > 0:05:16"that creep
0:05:16 > 0:05:19"or swim,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21"or fly or run,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24"after me so as you never saw.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29"And people call me the Pied Piper."
0:05:41 > 0:05:45And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48you heard as if an army muttered.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51And the muttering grew to a grumbling,
0:05:51 > 0:05:55and the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.
0:06:05 > 0:06:10Great rats, small rats,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13lean rats, brawny rats,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16brown rats, black rats,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20grey rats, tawny rats.
0:06:20 > 0:06:27Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives
0:06:27 > 0:06:30followed the Piper for their lives.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35From street to street he piped advancing,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38and step for step they followed dancing,
0:06:38 > 0:06:44until they came to the river Weser
0:06:44 > 0:06:47wherein all plunged and perished.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar,
0:07:03 > 0:07:06swam across and lived to carry
0:07:06 > 0:07:09as he, the manuscript he cherished
0:07:09 > 0:07:13to Rat-land home, his commentary
0:07:13 > 0:07:14which was...
0:07:18 > 0:07:22"At the first shrill notes of the pipe,
0:07:22 > 0:07:25"I heard a sound as of scraping tripe...
0:07:28 > 0:07:33"..and putting apples, wondrous ripe,
0:07:33 > 0:07:38"into a cider-press's gripe,
0:07:38 > 0:07:42"and a moving away of pickle-tub boards,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46"and a leaving ajar of conserve cupboards."
0:08:05 > 0:08:10"Mmm. Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14"and just as a bulky sugar-puncheon...
0:08:14 > 0:08:18"..just as methought it said 'Come bore me!'
0:08:18 > 0:08:22"I found the Weser rolling o'er me."
0:08:26 > 0:08:29You should have heard the Hamelin people
0:08:29 > 0:08:35ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37"Go," cried the Mayor,
0:08:37 > 0:08:42"and leave in our town not even a trace of the rats."
0:08:42 > 0:08:47When, suddenly, up the face of the Piper perked in the market-place,
0:08:47 > 0:08:52with a, "First, if you please,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54"my thousand guilders!"
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Wasn't the piper clever?
0:09:01 > 0:09:04I wonder if they'll pay him.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09Did you see how the rats followed the piper, because the magic music
0:09:09 > 0:09:12made them imagine lots and lots of delicious things
0:09:12 > 0:09:15like sugar and butter and pickles?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Why don't you have a think about what delicious ideas would
0:09:21 > 0:09:23make you get up and moving?
0:09:25 > 0:09:26- BOTH:- Bye!
0:09:30 > 0:09:31ALL: Magic hands!
0:09:33 > 0:09:35# Just look at my magic
0:09:36 > 0:09:38# My magic hands
0:09:38 > 0:09:42# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Magic Hands!