Ants'hillvania is a Sparrow Records production that was written by Jimmy and Carol Owens

Jimmy and Carol Owens

Jimmy and Carol Owens are a husband and wife songwriting and author team. They are best known for the Christian children's album, Ants'hillvania which was nominated for the Grammy Award, Best Album for Children, for the Grammy Awards of 1982...

 with Cherry Boone O'Neil and produced by Dan Collins. It is well known for being full of "Ant

Ant

Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...

"-pun

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s. It was nominated for a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 for Best Album for Children

Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

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for the Grammy Awards of 1981

Grammy Awards of 1981

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It uses the Bible's

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, "Parable of the Sower

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," and, "Parable of the Prodigal Son

Parable of the Prodigal Son

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," to tell the story of a colony of ants and the misadventures of a particular ant named Antony. Antony's story was continued in the sequel titled Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure

Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure

Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure is a the second album in the Agapeland related series, Ants'hillvania. It was written by Jimmy and Carol Owens with Cherry Boone O'Neil. It is well known for being full of "Ant"-puns...

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Featuring:

• Antony: Wendell Burton
  Wendell Burton
  Wendell Burton is an American television executive and former motion picture actor and television actor, best known for his co-starring role with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 movie The Sterile Cuckoo....
  
  
• CommandAnt: Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
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• Millicent Millipede: Jamie Owens-Collins
• Story teller: James Hampton
  James Hampton (actor)
  James Wade Hampton is an American actor, television director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Though born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Hampton was reared in Dallas, Texas, where his father operated a cleaning business. He majored in theatre arts at the University of North Texas in Denton...
  
  

Plot

The track tells the story of an ant colony

Ant colony

An ant colony is an underground lair where ants live, eat and mate. Colonies consist of a series of underground chambers, connected to each other and the surface of the earth by small tunnels. There are rooms for nurseries, food storage, and mating...

 in a beautiful forest called Ants'hillvania(a pun on Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. The colony is filled with kind, fun-loving, and virtuous ants, led by their village leader, the CommandAnt. The ants value work and each other, and live by "the Wisdom From Above", or in other words, the word of God, which keeps their colony together through hard times.

However, the CommandAnt's young teenage son, Antony, is restless and tired of the same old settings of his life, and strives to explore the world and become rich and famous without expending labor and looking out for number one. The CommandAnt, though disappointed with this change of events, gives Antony his trust and gives his son his inheritance

Inheritance

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Antony sets out on a journey through the wood. Two of his friends, Briant and Samanttha, join him in his quest, and throughout their journey, they learn the meaning of what is right and more about the Wisdom from Above.

Track listing

1. "Ants'hillvania"
2. "Work Song"
3. "Independ-Ants Song"
4. "All It Really Is"
5. "Mr. Worm"
6. "Seeds"
7. "The Choice Is Up To You"
8. "The Toast of the Town"
9. "The Riddle"
10. "Repent-Ants Song"
11. "Come On Home"
12. "Antshillvania Reprise"