a beautiful, American song
and low and behold my teacher
caught the tune and disappeared, gone.
And as I stopped at my locker,
the melody continued to ring.
for behind me, a couple kids
were walking and whistling.
From one to another the song caught on
like laughter, the flu or a yawn.
But after awhile we forgot the tune.
the song had disappeared, gone.
I walked home quiet and down,
the earth was quiet like a tragedy
But behind my green front door
my parents whistled the melody.
Excitedly I turned on the tube
and switched it to CNN
and low and behold the tune
was ringing out once again!
America for once was care free
the song carried on for miles
and upon the billions of faces,
I found my teacher with the biggest smile.
