What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?

"What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel?" is a song written and sung by PBS personality Fred Rogers in the PBS children's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It was influential early in the funding process of PBS as noted by Senator John Pastore[1] and as shown in the documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018).[2]

"What Do You Do?" redirects here. For the song by The Proclaimers, see Sunshine on Leith (album).

The lyrics are available at an archived web page from PBS Kids.[3] The title and first line in the song come from a question Rogers received from a concerned boy, who asked "What do you do with the mad that you feel when you feel so mad you could bite?"[4] The song first appeared on his program in 1968.[4]

References
  1. Heaps, Jonathan R. (2019-10-15). "Feelings, Mentionable and Manageable". In Mohr, Eric J.; Mohr, Holly K. (eds.). Mister Rogers and Philosophy. Open Court Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 9780812694819.
  2. American Rhetoric: Mr. Rogers - Testimony Before the U.S. Senate on Funding for PBS transcript, americanrhetoric.com
  3. "What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?". Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. Retrieved 2019-02-18.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link), accessed February 18, 2019
  4. Long, Michael (2015-03-13). Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 50. ISBN 9781611645699.
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