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"It Takes All Sorts" is a song from the fourth The Land Before Time film, The Land Before Time IV: Journey through the Mists. It is the third song sung in the film, and is sung by Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Ali. The song is about how variation amongst creatures adds flavor to life on earth.
Description[]
After Ali has rescued Cera from the rapids she had fallen into in the Land of Mists, she tells the others that because her herd migrates so frequently, she has only ever become acquainted with her own kind; longnecks. She then tells them that their experiences together have taught her that having friendships with diverse species is better, and begins a song about how different sorts of creatures help make life interesting. After she has sung the first verse, the others excluding Spike and Tickles (both of whom are mute and thus unable to sing) then join in.
The song also appeared as a sneak peak preview promoting the aforementioned Land Before Time production, featuring various clips from the film, including those from the song, associated with a limited time mail-in rebate offer for any Timmy the Tooth episode purchased with The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving starting from the VHS release date until June 1996, including both previews on the original United States release, with the latter being an edited version of the commercial aired on television, with an instrumental track of "You Are My Friend" from that show's episode "Lost My Brush".
"It Takes All Sorts", along with "Friends For Dinner" and "The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur", are the songs in the bonus features of the 2003 DVD release of The Land Before Time.
Lyrics/Transcript[]
First part[]
to make a world
Short and tall sorts
large and small sorts
To fill this pretty planet
with love and laughter
To make it great to live in
tomorrow and the day after
without a doubt
Dumb and wise types
every size types
To do all the things
that need to be done
Find our place in the sun
And the brightest way
the rightest way
According to reports is simply to
take all sorts
to make our day
a place worth being
to try and make our future
a future really worth seeing
that's truly worthwhile
That knows how to smile
how to do things in style
and securest way
which everyone supports is simply to
Second part (The Land Before Time III VHS preview)[]
With new songs and adventures!
Brushbrush,
Bubbles,
Ms. Sweety,
and the Cavity Goon for The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth.
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