Handmade Music Rastamouse

# Zooba zooba zooba dan

# Zooba zooba zooba day

# Rastamouse and Scratchy and Zoomer

# Also known as the Easy Crew

# Crime fighters They're very special agents

# Playing reggae when the work is through

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad ting good. #.

-Ah, come on, keep up, guys.

-Yeah, man!

-Ah, me love Ragga Muffins.

-Me, too. What you having, Rastamouse?

Me can't, me no got time.

Me got to help Toots go and finish that new song.

-Man, that's so cool. Say yo to Toots from me.

-And me.

-Sure ting. Now, you gonna be OK without me?

-Sure.

We gonna get some food then head back to Nuff Song

-to finish the cleaning up.

-Hurry back, though.

There's three in the Easy Crew, you know? Not two.

Laters.

-Uh-huh. Those guitars are cool.

-BOTH: Yo, Jimi!

-Hey, guys.

You gonna miss Rastamouse.

But now we got a chance to show we can do things right.

And maybe there'll be a crime that needs investigating, too.

-Nah, we'd never be that lucky. Wait, did you move Rastamouse's guitar?

-No.

Well, me no touch it. And Rastamouse, him not take it with him.

-RADIO BUZZES

-Rastamouse, come in! Come in!

Are you reading me? Message from President Wensley Dale.

-Come immediately. Oh! Uh... You think we should go?

-For sure!

-Let's shift!

-Wicked!

SHE LAUGHS

Hey! Yeah, man!

Coming through!

Ah, Easy Crew, me glad you're here. Some...thing... Oh...

-Where's Rastamouse?

-Him gone to help Toots with his new tune.

Oh, that's right! But me need him help urgently. What me going to do?

Don't worry yourself, President. Rastamouse, him not here,

but the rest of the Easy Crew can still help you out.

Oh... OK.

Scratchy, Zoomer, me glad you're here cos something bad a-goin' on.

Them little orphans,

them wake up and find that all of dem yo-yos, dem gone!

Yo-yos have been thiefed from the orphanage? Man, that is dread!

Them orphans, they can't stop them crying.

And Bandulu, he very upset, too.

Cos him not know who could do such a thing.

That's why me call on you. Two.

You no worry, Mr President, the Easy Crew is on the case.

-Scratchy and Zoomer will find the yo-yo thief.

-Thanks, Easy Crew.

-Our first crime without Rastamouse!

-He-he! This is going to be fun.

Wo-hoo!

Easy Crew, thank goodness you're here.

Bandulu, you no worry,

Scratchy and Zoomer are going to sort out all your problems.

Now, where were those yo-yos taken from?

There's nothing going to confuse us.

That's the crazy thing - them yo-yos, them come back again!

What you say? They've been un-thieved? Why?

And if them yo-yos back, why the orphans still so sad?

Cos them yo-yos are back, but them no have no strings now.

What we going to do?

Ha-ha! Me got the answer.

-Who in Mouseland needs string?

-Me no know.

-Bagga T.

-Why?

-For his string vest. What else?

-You sure about this?

-You got any better ideas? Come on.

-Bagga T?

Him helping Fats and Little Patch repair the Jammin' Dodger.

-But me no tink he would thief...

-Thanks, Bandulu.

-..string. No.

-Ah-ha!

-What? What's going on?

-Return these orphans' yo-yo strings!

Yo-yo strings? Orphans? Ha-ha - that's mine, boy.

-You're certain of that?

-Me name's Bagga T, Bagga Trouble, Double G.

All I know, this vest belong to me.

-Ah, me sorry.

-Now, have you seen Fats?

Him was meant to bring his tools to help me fix the ship,

but him no here yet.

-Him missing, just like me other oar.

-What? Someone thiefed your other oar?

Hmmm - a thiefed oar, thiefed yo-yo strings...

Hey, maybe that's what's happened to Fats - him been thiefed as well!

Me no been thiefed. But me tools have.

And the piece of wood me was going to use to mend the Jammin' Dodger.

There's thiefing all over the island. What we going to do?

Look for more clues. Come on!

What? Them tools - they're back. And a piece of wood as well. He-he!

-But look!

-Something's been cut out of it.

-A four-pointed star. But why?

Hmmm. Me can't understand what's going on.

Come on, Zoomer, let's get back to the studio

and try and work this all out.

-What?

-That's Rastamouse's guitar.

-Safe and sound.

Everything that's thiefed come back.

Except for the yo-yos strings and that star shape in the wood.

-Zoomer, you said you would clean up.

-Me did clean up.

-The what's this pile of dust doing here?

-Nothing to do with me.

PHONE RINGS

-Yo, Scratchy, Zoomer.

-Yo, Rastamouse.

-Go on.

There's this crime wave all over Mouseland,

but no worry, cos Scratchy and Zoomer, we got it all under control.

You sure? You got clues and everything?

Sure we got clues - plenty of clues!

-Give me that.

-Tell me about them clues, maybe me can help.

First, them orphans' yo-yos were thiefed.

But them come back again, except with no strings.

Then Fats' wood got thiefed.

But that came back again, except with a star cut out of it, you see?

OK, no worry, me come back as soon as me can.

But for now, this is what you do.

You need to look at the bigger picture.

-The bigger picture.

-Catch you later.

-Sweet.

-What you doing?

-Making the big picture, right?

Uh, me think Rastamouse just meant we should try and work out

what it means when you put it all together.

-Nah! He mean draw a big picture. Come on.

-Oh, OK.

-Voila.

-If this is the bigger picture, me no understand it.

That's cos it needs to be even bigger.

-This is big enough!

-Nah, you no right.

-You no right!

-Yo, breda and sister, what's going on?

-Rastamouse, you're back.

Thank goodness! We really need your help.

Ah, come on, we work together. Tell me about them clues again.

Well, like we said on the phone,

things went missing then come back again.

That guitar went missing,

then come back again, along with that pile of dust.

Hmmm... Ah! That not just dust. That's sawdust.

Wait! Look what them shapes make.

Oh! That's your guitar!

The thief must have drawn round my real guitar to get the shape.

-But why? And who thiefed it?

-Me not know.

SHE SIGHS

Maybe if the three of us work together, we can think of something.

-True that. Like when we play as a band.

-Wait! The band! That's it!

Me think me got an idea about catching that thief.

You have? Oh, me love that.

You better call the President then, Scratchy.

PHONE RINGS

Greetings. Hello. Scratchy. You have? Oh, thank goodness. Mm-hmm.

Oh! That plan does sound proper. Scratchy.

That's one clever plan, Scratchy.

Come on - we got to let the whole of Mouseland know there's going

to be an audition for a new member of the Easy Crew.

-Ha-ha!

-That's what the thief will think, anyway.

-Thanks, Ron. That comb and paper was, um...

-Interesting?

-That's it.

-Interesting.

-Yeah, man!

-Who's next?

SHE SCRATCHES AND WAILS

-You fiddle proper, Aunt Jenessa. You really made it your own.

-Who's next?

-Oh, Jimi H. Let's see what you can do.

-Give me a phat rhythm.

HE HOLLERS WILDLY

That's my missing oar.

And that's the shape cut out of my piece of wood.

And those are missing strings from the little orphans' yo-yos.

Jimi, you got something to say to us about where you got that guitar?

Me just want to be like you, Rastamouse.

But me no have the money and things to buy a proper guitar.

But you must now see that it was wrong to take all them things.

Me so sorry. Me didnt' think. Me not want to make them oprhans sad.

But now that you show me what me done,

me can see straight away it was bad.

But me no know how to make everything better.

Me think me know a way you can make a bad thing good.

Fats, Bandulu, Little Patch,

me sure you got some odd-jobs you need doing.

-Sure!

-Ha-ha - me can always do with a hand.

And me could do with some help on the ship for sure.

Good. And once you put things right,

maybe you can earn some proper money to buy your own guitar.

-Sounding good!

-True, that.

RADIO BUZZES

Easy Crew, come in! Come in! Are you reading me?

Message from President Wensley Dale. Listen up, you three.

Rastamouse, come in! Come in!

Me loved Scratchy's wicked plan and Zoomer's big picture was genius.

Thanks. They love that. Irie, man.

# Give it up, give it up Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solving mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad thing good. #