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