| Can you imagine a world without music? No songs, | | | | rhymes would have to be chanted or recited instead |
| no tunes, no rock, no roll, no jazz, no hymns, no | | | | of sung. School music programs would of course be |
| boogie-woogie, no country-western, no symphonies. | | | | non-existent, as would school choirs and orchestras |
| No singing in the shower. No whistling Dixie. Lovers | | | | and bands. When the school football team plays, |
| wouldn't have songs to romance to. There would be | | | | there would be no school fight song. Cheerleaders |
| no such thing as "our song." Sinatra couldn't fly to the | | | | would have to cheer and dance minus any music. |
| moon. Elvis couldn't complain about people stepping | | | | And when those birthdays roll around, we would |
| on his blue suede shoes. Tony Bennett would have | | | | have to all recite together in a monotone "happy |
| to write a letter about how he left his heart in San | | | | birthday to you." And when duty calls, what would |
| Francisco. Willie might go on the road again, but | | | | soldiers march to? What would take the place of |
| without a guitar. And Ray Charles would look pretty | | | | music in parades, since there would be no marching |
| strange up on stage without a piano telling us that | | | | bands? John Philip Sousa would have had to get a |
| Georgia is on his mind. Then when the wedding day | | | | day job. And on the 4th of July there would be no |
| arrived, what would the bride march down the isle | | | | patriotic songs - just speeches. At Christmas time |
| to? A poem? Silence? Applause? And when the | | | | there would be no Christmas carols. No rousing gospel |
| happy couple marched out of the church together, | | | | music at Easter, no hymns in church. And can you |
| would they do it to the bark of neighborhood dogs, | | | | imagine radio without music? Nothing but news and |
| or perhaps all the wedding guests talking at once? | | | | talk shows and bla bla bla bla.... I don't know about |
| And at the reception, what would they dance to? | | | | you, but I've had it up to here just thinking about it. |
| The Funky Chicken just isn't the same without music. | | | | I'm heading for the piano now to celebrate the fact |
| Since rhythm is part of music, no drums would even | | | | that our Creator gave us the wonderful and inspiring |
| be allowed. And the honeymoon I suppose would | | | | and uplifting gift of music that we all take for |
| take place with radio news on, or perhaps the | | | | granted. |
| educational channel accompanied by the drone of an | | | | I think I'll play a nursery rhyme or two, then the |
| air-conditioner. When baby arrives, do we lull her to | | | | wedding march, then Silent Night, then Auld Lang |
| sleep with a reading from Shakespeare? Or perhaps | | | | Syne, then Fur Elise, then the blues, then a little jazz, |
| random readings from the dictionary or encyclopedia? | | | | then...and then... |
| Could we bore her to sleep with words? Nursery | | | | |