A THING CAN BE DONE IF YOU THINK THAT IT MUST Or can simply be done for the fun Do it wrong, make it right as you work through the night But just do it until you are done All the reasons for you not to try it Are considered to be lame excuses They […]

FLYING IN AN AIRPLANE Can cause people to complain No worries mate go buy yourself A ticket on a train Looking out the window You can watch the world go by Remembering the olden days Of flags and apple pie Ride the rails on business trips Or take the train for kicks Relaxing in a […]

NO RAIN IN CALIFORNIA Crime is up, employment’s down Traffic’s rough and times are tough In cities and in towns The Middle East is blowing up Ukraine’s a big snafu Health care costs and money lost And things that make us blue Phones are small computers We relate to more than others And so we […]

I WISH I HAD A MILLION BUCKS A fast Italian car A super-model wife, my friends I’d be the best by far I wish I were a movie star With lots of avid fans A football stud adored by all The people in the stands Well money can’t buy happiness And cars crash into walls […]

I WISH I WERE A CARPENTER But I’m not very handy I’d build myself a tree house That my wife would think was dandy She reminds me every day That there are things to fix When I drive nails I always fail And I cannot lay bricks The other day she pointed out A door […]

WE ALL WAKE UP TO FACE EACH DAY And do the things we do I think when it’s all said and done We haven’t got a clue We race around and spend and make And waste or save our bread We drive in cars and hang in bars And live inside our heads We go […]

YOUR BIRTHDAY’S HERE AGAIN These days they seem to come so fast It seems like only yesterday That we observed your last In your life you’ve seen a lot Of comings and of goings You’ve lived and learned a million things And gained so many knowings You’ve shared yourself and given And your spirit is […]

SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME What yawning’s all about The studies can’t explain it And have left us all in doubt Maybe it’s a vestige Of some long-past evolution Or perhaps it clears our brains Of CO2 pollution And what is yawn contagiousness We do it when we see it? All at once we get […]

I’VE READ THE TEN COMMANDMENTS And the Code of Hammurabi Rules from God and government And special-interest lobbies Codes for doing good are learned And living life’s your quiz But you don’t need a manual We all know what it is Making laws to live by And enforcing them with might In the end is […]

EVERY COUPLE YEARS The great Olympic Games are aired We have to turn on NBC To see how countries fared We see the skaters sitting Crying tears and giving smootchies As they are being interviewed By Kristi Yamaguchi The network’s spending billions So that we will watch “Today” In hopes that they can sell some […]