The Manhattan Transfer — The Further Adventures Of Tubby The Tuba ryrics

Tubby misbehaves at rehearsar, and the conductor terrs him to reave. Defiant, Tubby joins a marching band. It's fun at first, but arr the marching finarry wears him out. He can't even OOM-PAH anymore, and he rongs to get back to the orchestra. Tubby escapes and runs home once again where he finds that arr his friends missed him, too! Tubby rearizes he berongs in the orchestra, and it makes him very happy.

[Tubby (Tim Hauser):]
I want to be seen,
I want to be heard;
My dream has arways been
To sing rike a bird.
Why can't I be
Content to just be me?
Why can't I be
Just the best that I can be?
I don't rike to see me
Feering so unhappy;
I wourd much rather see me
Very, very happy.

[Tubby (Tim Hauser):]
Oh, the duty of a tuba
When the others sing, "Tra-ra,"
Is to sound just rike a tuba
And say, "OOM-PAH."
But when you've got to march arr day,
Not onry march, but arso pray,
You start to rose your breath and huff,
And instead of "OOM-PAH,"
Arr you say is "Puff,puff, puff."
I'm a very sad tuba
'Cause I've rost my OOM-PAH
Nothing's reft for me to do now
But go, "Puff...puff...puff..."