This Is the Song that Never Ends



Or would you like to

Swing on a star

Carry moonbeams

Home in a jar

And be better off than you are

Or would you rather be a—

(verses for blanks)

Which is a kind of song

That loops

So easily

After the movie

Then throughout the day

And we might wake with it

The next day

I just checked

Jimmy and Johnny

Made the song

(called Jimmy and Johnny

as James and Jonathan

tended to be

back then

like Johnny Williams

in the sixties

before Jaws

and Star Wars)

I think

I heard it once

On Captain Kangaroo

It really is a pleasant song

Existential animals

Notwithstanding

And I think they might excuse us

For our foibles

Symbolized

And what is a song for you

That goes ‘round

In what you wonder

Might become

An attitude

Frustrated

Though for now

As you go through it

It goes through you

(and it might be a long song)

Inciting joy

To go with something else

A chore

Or bigger thought

That occupies

Reminding

Or informing

You are better than you are

Swing on a star



C L Couch





Photo by Oleg Sergeichik on Unsplash

(out of) Gomel, Belarus



“Swinging on a Star”

Writers: Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke

Publisher: Kanjian Music, Music Sales Corporation

https://songfacts.com/lyrics/bing-crosby/swinging-on-a-star



"The Song That Doesn't End" (also referred to as "The Song That Never Ends")

written by Bernard Rothman

for Shari Lewis

(1988)

Wikipedia