DD12/27/07 HARD WORK AND PERSEVERANCE

A day late one, of my favorite songs…
LOU & PETER BERRYMAN
HARD WORK AND PERSEVERANCE
A mama fly she laid two eggs and left them on the floor
An arbitrary breeze arose and blew them out the door
One landed in a parking lot, the other with a splat
Was blown into the Shangri-la of one decaying cat
Subsequently they were hatched as maggots, Dick and Doug
And Dick, upon the cat, became a fat and healthy bug
Although he starved in anguish on the asphalt where he fell
One day they met and Doug asked Dick, how do you look so well.
CHORUS:
Hard work and perseverance, grim determination of the soul,
I’d say, from your appearance, you could use a little self-control
A couple yellow pencil stumbled off a pencil truck
One careened across the berm and kerplopped in the muck
Subsequently rescued by a hobo and his troupe
He was alternately used to scratch and stir the soup
The other pencil bounced into the royal limousine
And bonked into the slot that was the cleavage of the queen
His years were spent in splendor gazing out across the moat
One day he spied his tattered friend, and penciled him a note
CHORUS:
Hard work and perseverance, grim determination of the soul,
I’d say, from your appearance, you could use a little self-control
A couple grapes were lounging separated from the bunch
A grackle grabbed them both, but then she sneezed and dropped her lunch
One fell down the chimney of a winery below
And plopped into the mash that was to b e a fine Bordeaux
The other grape, he landed on a raisin-drying rack,
Destined for a Danish in a bar in Fon-du-Lac
Through a fluke, they ended up upon the same buffet
The raisin said "How did, you get so fancy s’il vous plait?"
CHORUS:
Hard work and perseverance, grim determination of the soul,
I’d say, from your appearance, you could use a little self-control