• Something to Watch Over Me

    From Jim Goulder@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 27 05:43:02 2021
    Animal House: Ferrets, Guinea Pigs, Lizards Accompany Students to Campus - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/college-pets-emotional-support-animals-dogs-cats-11631735988


    To: "Someone to Watch Over Me" [George Gershwin, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics, 1926]

    Ella Fitzgerald Someone To Watch Over Me
    https://youtu.be/TYEeAOTIQ2c

    Someone To Watch Over Me - Solo Jazz Piano Arrangement https://youtu.be/WfAyMZ5nFpk


    INTRO

    Colleges exhort kids to seek support,
    Animals, in short, are their first resort.
    So into 'most ev'ry college dorm they swarm, cavort.

    Animals galore, spreading campus-wide,
    What they're needed for mustn't be denied.
    Now for all these critters pals must be supplied.

    But are these animals really so gregarious?
    Could it be this phenomenon's precarious?


    VERSE

    Now that I'm in college, life can be bleak,
    Maybe I'm weak.
    I had to seek,
    Something to watch over me.

    I would need to have a ferret or cat,
    Guinea pig--fat,
    Even a rat,
    Could help to watch over me.


    BRIDGE

    Unless I cuddle with my ferret,
    I simply can't bear it:
    Campus insensitivity.


    VERSE

    Yet I know that I will still have to get,
    Friends for my pet,
    So it won't fret,
    And then can watch over me.

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