I Am a Promise

I Am a Promise is a song that was featured in More Sunday Morning Songs with Bob & Larry. It was also featured in Worship Songs. The first version is sung by Junior Asparagus and Larry the Cucumber, both of whom also sing the second version along with Jimmy Gourd and Mr. Lunt.

Lyrics[]

More Sunday Morning Songs with Bob & Larry version[]

Junior: I am a promise

I am a possibility

I am a promise

With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality

And I am learning

To hear God's voice

And I am trying

To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything He wants me to be

Come on, kids! Sing with me!

Larry, Junior, and Kids: I am a promise

I am a possibility

I am a promise

With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality

Junior: You are too, Larry! (Larry: You talkin' to me?)

All: And I am learning (Oh yeah!)

To hear God's voice

And I am trying (Junior: You know I am!)

To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything God wants me to be

Junior: Alright, stay with me here. (Larry: Okay.)

Junior and Kids: I can go anywhere that He wants me to go

Junior: And

All: I can be anything that He wants me to be

Junior: And

All: I can climb the high mountains, I can cross the wide sea

All: I am a great big promise you see (Junior: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)

All: I am a promise! (Larry: Ooh!)

I am a possibility

I am a promise (Larry: Uh-huh!/Junior: Woo!)

All: With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality

Junior: I do-ah! I-do-I-do-ah! (Larry: Ooooh)

All: And I am learning (Junior: I'm learning!)

To hear God's voice

And I am trying (Sure am!)

To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything God wants me (Larry: To be)

Junior and Kids: I'm a promise to be

All: Anything He wants me

I'm a promise to be

Junior: Anything He wants me to be-e (Larry: Oh yea-a-a-a-a-a-ah! Woo!)

Worship Songs version[]

Junior: I am a promise

I am a possibility

I am a promise

With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality,

Oh yeah

And I am learning

To hear God's voice

And I am trying

To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything He wants me to be

Jimmy: Mind if we all sing?

Junior: That'd be great!

All: I am a promise

I am a possibility

I am a promise

With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality (Mr. Lunt: Oh, you know that's right.)

And I am learning

To hear God's voice

And I am trying (Junior: I'm trying!)

To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything God wants me to be

Mr. Lunt: Take it, kids!

Kids: I can go anywhere that He wants me to go

Larry: I can be anything that He wants me to be

Jimmy: I can climb the high mountains

Mr. Lunt: I can cross the wide sea

All: I am a great big bundle you see

Jimmy: Oh yeah!

Larry, Junior, Jimmy, and Mr. Lunt: I...am...a...promise! (Larry: Ooh!)

All: I am a possibility

I am a promise (Mr. Lunt: You got it!)

All: With a capital P

I am a great big bundle of potentiality (Junior: I do-ah! I-do-I-do-ah!)

And I am learning (Jimmy: Yeah, I'm learning!)

To hear God's voice

And I am trying (Larry: I really am!)

Junior and Kids: To make the right choices

I'm a promise to be

Anything He wants

Kids: I'm a promise to be (Larry: I know you are!)

Anything He wants

Junior: I'm a promise to be

Anything God wants me to be (Mr. Lunt: Oh, you got it, man! Take it home!)

Jimmy: You go, short stuff!

Mr. Lunt: You the promise!

Junior: Oh yeah

Yeah!

Fun Facts[]

Trivia[]

There are several differences between both versions of this song:
- In the Worship Songs version, after Junior sings the first stanza, he adds an "Oh yeah!", which he does not do in the original version.
- During the second chorus, Junior says "You know I am" in the original version after the line "And I am trying" is sung, while in the Worship Songs version, he instead says "I'm trying."
- The word "and" is added before the second and third parts of the bridge in the original version, but not in the Worship Songs version.
- The final line in the bridge in the original version is "I am a great big promise you see," while the Worship Songs version replaces "promise" with "bundle" for this part.
- In the original version, Junior says "I'm learning" after the line "And I am learning" is sung in the final chorus. The Worship Songs version has Jimmy saying this line during this instance.
- The original version has Junior saying "Sure am!" during the final chorus after the line "And I am trying," while the Worship Songs version replaces this with Larry saying "I really am!".
- The Worship Songs version swaps the second word of the lines "Anything God wants" and "Anything He wants me to be" near the end of the song.

Inside References[]

Junior's line "Yeah!" is re-used from Lyle the Kindly Viking.