The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

by Maxwell King

What do you do with the mad that you feel / When you feel so mad you could bite / When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong, and nothing you do seems very right / What do you do / Do you punch a bag / Do you pound some clay or some dough / Do you round up friends for a game of tag or see how fast you can go / It’s great to be able to stop when you’ve planned a thing that’s wrong / And be able to do something else instead—and think this song— “‘I can stop when I want to / Can stop when I wish / Can stop, stop, stop anytime / And what a good feeling to feel like this / And know that the feeling is really mine / Know that there’s something deep inside that helps us become what we can / For a girl can be someday a lady, and a boy can be someday a man.’” Senator Pastore’s dramatic and very famous closing line: “I think it’s wonderful. I think it’s wonderful. Looks like you just earned the twenty million dollars.”