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