[SOUR KANGAROO] (singing)
UP OUT OF THE JUNGLE,
UP INTO THE SKY,
UP OVER THE MOUNTAINS,

[SOUR KANGAROO, & BIRD GIRLS]
TEN THOUSAND FEET HIGH,

[SOUR KANGAROO]
THEN DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS

[SOUR KANGAROO, & BIRD GIRLS]
AND INTO THE NEWS

[ALL] (except HORTON)
WENT HORTON THE ELEPHANT
CHASING THE WHOS!

[WOMEN]
CHASING THE WHOS!

[MEN]
CHASING THE WHOS!

(The CAT enters as a HELICOPTER NEWCASTER, wearing headphones. SFX: Helicopter blades.)
[CAT IN THE HAT] (as NEWSCASTER, spoken)
This is the Cat in the Hat
Live from Skycam Five.
Folks, the Jungle of Nool
Is one heck of a drive.
We got monkeys backed up
To the Three-Oh-Two.
I'd find alternate routes
If I were you!

(The CAT "flies" off.)

[WICKERSHAM BROTHERS, SOUR KANGAROO, & BIRD GIRLS] (singing)
THEN OVER THE DESERT,
THE DESERT OF DREZE,
AND INTO THE FOREST
WITH THOUSANDS OF TREES,
PAST SNEETCHES ON BEACHES

[SOUR KANGAROO]
AND SOUR KANGAROOS!

[ALL (except HORTON, & "VOCALLY LOW" MEN), & ("VOCALLY LOW" MEN)]
WENT HORTON THE ELEPHANT
CHASING THE WHOS (CHASING THE WHOS!)
(CHASING THE...)
CHASING THE WHOS (CHASING THE WHOS!)!
(The WICKERSHAM BROTHERS stop running and surround HORTON, holding the clover just out of reach.)

[WICKERSHAM #1] (spoken)
Still chasin' your dust?
Why, it's safe as can be.

[WICKERSHAM #2]
We're monkeys to trust.
Or don't you agree?

[WICKERSHAM #3]
Wеll, just to be sure
We arе handing it off

[WICKERSHAMS]
To a black-bottomed eagle named–

[VLAD VLADIKOFF]
Vlad Vladikoff!
(an eagle shriek)
AAAHHH!

(VLAD VLADIKOFF swoops in and grabs the clover. HORTON gives chase again.)

[HORTON]
No! Please! Wait!!
[BIRD GIRLS] (singing)
ALL THAT LATE AFTERNOON
AND FAR INTO THE NIGHT,
THAT BLACK-BOTTOMED BIRD
FLAPPED HIS WINGS IN FAST FLIGHT,
AND HE PAID NO ATTENTION
TO HORTON'S LOUD CALL:

[HORTON]
A PERSON'S A PERSON
NO MATTER HOW SMALL!

(We see the WHOS being swept from side to side as the eagle swoops. JOJO is with them. They all cling to one another in terror.)

[WHOVILLE CITIZENS] (spoken)
(Screaming)
Oooh...aaahhh!!!
Oooh...aaahhh!!!

[WHOS] (singing)
WE'RE WHOS HERE! WE'RE ALL WHOS HERE!
PLEASE DON'T LET US FALL!

[WHOS] (spoken)
(screams)
Aaah!!

[WHOS] (singing)
WE'RE WHOS HERE. WE COULD BRUISE HERE!
HELPLESS, WEAK AND SMALL.

[CITIZENS OF THE JUNGLE, & WHOS]
ON HORTON TRAVELED
AND ON THAT BIRD FLEW.
AND, OH, THERE WAS TROUBLE,

[WHOS]
TROUBLE ON WHO!

[ALL] (including WHOS)
THAT BLACK-BOTTOMED EAGLE
WAS CRUEL AS COULD BE...

[HORTON] (spoken)
'Cause at six fifty-six. Vlad Vladikoff dropped it.
The clover went tumbling and nobody stopped it!
And head over heels, a hundred miles down,
Fell the poor little Whos and their whole tiny town!

[WHOS]
(Scream)
Aaaah!!

(The CAT IN THE HAT appears in the midst of this grim moment and blithely freezes the WHOS in mid-fall.)