The theme for this writing prompt was “Home”. So I wrote this song.
Home, Home, Here I’ll Stay
(sung to the tune: Home on the Range)
by Harvey Heilbrun 3/23/2020
I work on my own
When I stay here at home
When I’m not, I am out in a crowd
Telling stories to teach
All the students I reach
And share writings
That I do, out loud.
Chorus
Home, home every day
Where I’m told that is
where I must stay.
I will try to keep fit
Though I’ll probably sit
And pray soon it will all go away.
Just before it began,
I could shop with a plan
For the things
that we needed like meat.
Then the panic struck in
Now the stock is so thin
There is not much to find we can eat.
Chorus
Now we’re all stuck at home
Though outside we can roam.
But make sure
should we happen to meet
Not a hand should we take
We must bow and not shake
Social distance is at least six feet
Chorus
You must do what they say
Wash hands twelve times a day
Or more if you touch anything.
Paper products are nil
Hoarders emptied the till
So there’s nothing left, but for to sing.
Chorus
Where you once were alone
In the place that you own
Now they’re people there
all day and night.
Let us all say a prayer
As they get in your hair
That our world soon will fix itself right.
Chorus
Très bon moment passé lors de l’écoute. J’ai partagé le lien avec toute ma famille. Merci Harvey. Vincent
That’s great. It’s an historical song. Thank you Harvey.
I never thought of it that way. But you are right, a note in history of this pandemic.