Alex Stangl wrote the music for "Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes" a few years ago, and he performed the original version--his first try at a children's song. Although it will always be a Stangl song to me (incidentally, if you've joined Songramp in the past few years and don't know who Alex is, here's our favorite collaboration on a "regular" song), Joe Martin does a great job with Bus Driver when we put on our poetry & music shows at schools. I'm posting this version mostly because the little kids singing along are so adorable.
Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes
Words: Jeff Mondak
Music: Alex Stangl
Live performance by Joe Martin
Nobody knows where our bus driver goes
While all of us kids are at school
Does he study the map
Does he take a nice nap
Or lazily lounge by the pool?
Nobody knows where our bus driver goes
Nor what he may do with his time
Does he work for the mayor,
Is he cutting off his hair,
Or secretly out fighting crime?
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Where our bus driver goes
Nobody knows where our bus driver goes
He's prob'ly a spaceman from Mars
But he might be a spy
Or a rock-n-roll guy
Who's flailing on electric guitars
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Where our bus driver goes
Nobody knows where our bus driver goes
He leaves us each morning at eight
All that we see
Is our bus back at three
And, boy, we're sure glad he's not late
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Where our bus driver goes
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Where our bus driver goes