Endangered Love

**Endangered Love**, also known as **Barbara Manatee**, is the tenth Silly Song with Larry.

While watching the television soap opera, "Endangered Love", Larry sings of his love for the main character, Barbara Manatee, while dancing with a stuffed manatee doll.

## Lyrics

**Announcer:** And now it's time for Silly Songs with Larry, the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings a silly song. *(cut to Larry watching TV with his Barbara Manatee plush)* We join Larry as he follows the tragic saga of Barbara Manatee in the day time drama, *Endangered Love*.

**Larry:** *Barbara Manatee.*

**Backup Singers:** *Manatee, manatee.*

**Larry:** *You are the one for me.*

**Backup Singers:** *One for me, one for me.*

**Larry:** *Sent from up above.*

**Backup Singers:** *Up above, up above.*

**Larry:** *You are the one I love.*

**Backup Singers:** *Barbara, oh Barbara.*

**Bill:** *Please don't cry Barbara. You're a nice manatee. You've been so good to me. But I must go into the world and do noble things for the good of all. And you can't come because you don't speak French.* Au revoir!

**Barbara:** *But if you leave, Bill. Who will take me to the ball? Who's going to take me to the ball, Bill? I have a new dress and shoes, and new manatee lipstick! Who will take me to the ball?*

**Larry:** *(Jumps off couch)* I'll take you to the ball, Barbara Manatee!

**Barbara:** *Please don't go.*

**Bill:** *I must.*

**Barbara:** *Don't go.*

**Bill:** *I must.*

**Barbara:** *Don't!*

**Bill:** *Must!*

**Barbara:** *Don't, don't!*

**Bill:** *Must, must!*

**Larry:** *Barbara Manatee.*

**Backup Singers:** *Manatee, manatee.*

**Larry:** *You are the one for me.*

**Backup Singers:** *One for me, one for me.*

**Larry:** *Sent from up above.*

**Backup Singers:** *Manatee from heaven.*

**Larry:** *You are the one I love.*

*(Larry dances the tango with his stuffed Barbara Manatee)*

**Larry:** *Barbara Manatee.*

**Backup Singers:** *Manatee, manatee.*

**Larry:** *I'll be your mon ami.*

**Backup Singers:** *Mon ami, mon ami.*

**Larry:** *I'll take you to the ball.*

**Backup Singers:** *To the ball, to the ball.*

**Larry:** *I hope you're not too tall.*

**Backup Singers:** *You might have trouble dancing.*

**Barbara:** Bill, I've learned French.

**Bill:** You have?

**Barbara:** Mais oui, je sui manatee. See?

**Bill:** *Oui, oui, mon ami. I always knew you could. I really hoped you would. Now can we go into the world and do noble things for the good of all?*

**Barbara:** Yes. But first, Bill. *Will you take me to the ball?* Oh, Bill. *Will you take me to the ball?*

**Bill:** I can't dance.

**Barbara:** You can't?

**Bill:** No.

**Barbara:** I must go!

**Bill:** *Please don't go.*

**Barbara:** *I must.*

**Bill:** *Don't go.*

**Barbara:** *I must.*

**Bill:** *Don't!*

**Barbara:** *Must!*

**Bill:** *Don't, don't!*

**Barbara:** *Must, must!*

**Larry:** *Barbara Manatee.*

**Backup Singers:** *Manatee, manatee.*

**Larry:** *You are the one--*

*(Larry is interrupted by Bob opening the door.)*

**Bob:** Larry, what are you doing?

**Larry:** Just watching a little TV, Bob.

**Bob:** Well, maybe you should read a book.

**Larry:** Yeah. Okay.

*(Cut back to the title card)*

**Announcer:** This has been Silly Songs with Larry. Tune in next time to hear Bill say:

**Bill:** Barbara! I've learned to dance!

**Barbara:** Oh, Bill.