# Tinga, Tinga, Tinga, Tinga
# Tinga Tinga is a land
- # Full of stories and surprises - Tell me about it!
# If you like to wonder why
# Tinga Tinga is a land of whys
# You won't believe your eyes
# Why I swing from tree to tree
# Why my trunk is long
- # Why I'm so slow - Why my skin is smooth and sleek
- # You ask why, why, why, why, why - Why?!
# You ask why, why, why, why, why
- # There's a story - Lots of stories!
# Beneath a Tinga sky Tinga, Tinga, Tinga, Tinga
# Tales from Africa
- # Tinga, Tinga, Tinga, Tinga - Tales from Africa
- # Tinga, Tinga, Tinga, Tinga. # - Look at all my friends!
I'll tell you why!
Why Flamingo stands on one leg!
Ooh! Ooh!
THEY LAUGH
Has the stir up started?
- No! - The morning stir up, come on, quickly!
Ooh, I love it when the crabs dance the morning stir up!
- Me too! - Me three! - Me seven!
Here they come.
Attention, crabs.
Right, feeding time.
Shells into position. Legs lively.
Legs lively, I said!
Come on, right. Claws up!
Let's stir things up!
THEY LAUGH
# Stirring feeling
# Stirring feeling Stirring feeling... #
Stir things up! Ha-ha, ha!
- Oh! - I love it!
Look!
ELEPHANT TRUMPS
The sky has turned all pink!
Pink flying clouds.
I don't think those are clouds, Elephant.
What are they?
I don't know, what is that?
Hmm?! You see there was a time when no-one in Tinga Tinga
had ever seen a flamingo.
- TORTOISE: - It's like the heavens are falling!
# Stirring feeling... #
Huh?! What's that?
Sti.. Fee... Ah!
Uh! Ah! Ah-ah!
Oh. Pfft!
Eurgh!
We are feeding here!
Good morning, charming creatures.
What beautiful water - so clean and so much room!
Ha-ha, it talks! Ha-ha, ha!
Pfft! Uh!
Lion, we have strangers!
LION: Mmm-hmm.
Greetings, um...pink things. I am king of Tinga Tinga.
Karibu, welcome.
Good morning to you, King.
We are fla-ming-os
and we have flown many days
over many lands looking for a new home.
Well, you are most welcome here...Flamingo.
- Ha-ha, ha! - Ha-ha!
THEY LAUGH
Um...your majesty, these strangers have messed up
our morning manoeuvres.
Oh, little crab!
I'm so sorry about your morning man... manu... mano... No, um...
Manoeuvres! Morning manoeuvres!
I don't know what it means.
We stir up the bottom of the water hole, it means we,
and a lot of other animals, can feed! It's very important.
Come now, Crab.
I'm sure we can make room for Flamingo AND your manoeuvres.
And how are we to do that when THAT stranger has filled up
OUR water hole with all of her legs?!
I'm sure we can make room for you.
Wait, wait, wait! YOU make room for US?!
We were here first!
Crab, that is no way to talk.
The flamingos are our guests
and we should treat them with kindness.
It is nature's way.
Now, please, continue!
Oh! Very well.
Crabs, attention!
Shells into position!
Legs lively!
Claws up!
Let's stir things...up!
CRABS GROAN
Ooh! ha-ha, ha!
FLAMINGOS GIGGLE
They're tickled pink! Ha! Ha! Ha!
That's funny, Tortoise.
THEY LAUGH
Tickled pink! Ha-ha, ha!
How is Crab doing?
Oh! Ah! Ay-ay!
I...
That's it, that's it! THAT'S IT!
Abandon manoeuvres!
Abandon...manoeuvres!
Your majesty, manoeuvres are now impossible.
Uh-oh, Crab looks a bit crabby.
- THEY LAUGH - That's funny, Elephant! - Is it?
- You made a joke! - Did I?
Ha! Ha! Ha!
What was it, then?
My crabs can no longer stir, nor can they feed.
These flamingos will have to go.
But we have flown such a long way...
That may be, madam, but we...
..And we have nowhere else to go.
That may BE, madam, but...
And we like Tinga Tinga SO much!
THAT MAY BE, MADAM! But...
- Crab! - Yes.
If the flamingos stick to one side of the water hole
and the crabs to the other, there will be room for all of you.
But! But! But!
No "buts"!
Oh, very well.
We'll try.
- Flamingo? - Let's all walk to one side, huh?
Make room for the little crabs.
Oh! I could pinch her.
Crabs! Positions, please!
Oh! Move. Move.
Move, huh? Move.
Uh! Ah! Just move...
Move... Move the...
Crabs! Let's try and stir things up!
Ah!
Sir! This is impossible!
The flamingos have to go!
- Now! - But we've only just arrived.
And now it's time to leave.
But we don't want to go...
SILENCE!
Water belongs to every beast.
But it's OUR water hole and YOU'RE... Oh...
Oh! Ah!
Argh!
Right. If those flamingos WON'T leave our water hole,
then we'll have to make them.
Crabs! Gather round, please.
Gather round.
I have a plan...
CRAB WHISPERS
Hmm.
Crab is up to something, I know it.
Well, things look a LITTLE calmer,
but we still have a most baffling problem -
too many animals and not enough water hole.
Tortoise, any suggestions?
Well, you majesty, I was just wondering if may...
Ouch!
Ooh! Ah!
Ouch! Ouch!
Oh, no! The crabs are pinching the flamingos!
Somebody do something!
Look at what is happening!
Chaos, again!
Yes, but look!
- Ouch! - Ay! - Ouch! - Ooh!
Huh?
TORTOISE WHISPERS
Clever, Tortoise. Very clever.
SILENCE!
Ah! Ooh!
CRAB!
Ah! Coming.
It appears that together you have found the solution
- to your problem. - Huh?
Now, crabs!
Give the flamingos a pinch on the count of three.
Hee-hee, hee!
One-two-three!
Crabs! Pinch!
Ay! Ah...
Hold the legs, Flamingo, hold the legs up!
Now, Crab. All of you turn sideways.
You heard Lion!
Sideways! Turn!
# Sideways turn. #
Now see if you can move from one side of the water hole to the other.
# We are moving. #
Now back the other way!
# Back the other way. #
Uh-uh, Flamingo.
One leg up, one leg up!
Not bad, sir.
Not bad at all.
Oh, actually it was my...
Thank you, Tortoise. Now back!
# Go back. #
Come forth.
# Come forth. #
It works! Leg up, Flamingo! That's it! Oh, well done!
Marvellous!
To the middle...and out again!
Oh, yes!
# Middle and out
# Stirring feeling Stirring feeling
# Ooh
# Stirring feeling
# Ooh... #
Whoa! Hee-hee!
Oh, it looks lovely!
And no more pinching.
Ha-ha, ha-ha!
Ha-ha, hey!
He-hey!
Ha-ha, ha-ha!
Ooh, ha-ha!
There's room for everyone!
And that's why Flamingo stands on one leg -
to make room for the crabs!
And from that day on, Crab always walks sideways,
so everyone was happy!
Excellent! Excellent!
Ha, ha-ha!
And back...and forth!
Flamingo, don't get tired!
And Lion's roar? Well, that's a whole other story.
Hee-hee, hee!
# Beneath a Tinga sky
# Tinga Tinga, Tinga Tinga... #
Hee-hee!
Tales from Africa!
# Tales from Africa. #