Monday, April 13, 2020

Quarantine Parody of "Downtown" (original sung by Petula Clark)

Quarantine Parody of Downtown - written March 20, 2020

When you’re alone and life is making you lonely
You can never go - downtown.
When you’ve got trouble, wait, it’s going to double,
But don’t try to go - downtown.

Just listen to the chirping of the birds you see around you,
Linger on your front porch where no viruses surround you.
There you’ll be safe.

The threat is much less at home
You can watch television, sleep,  or play on your phone
Just don’t go downtown
Things are too scary in downtown
The risks are too hairy in downtown
COVID is waiting for you.

Just enjoy all the time you’ve been given
Forget the movies downtown
Away from your boss it’ll just feel like heaven
No fighting traffic downtown

Just listen to advice from all the doctors, that they give ya
Maintain your distance, brother, so that COVID doesn’t get ya
Happy you’ll be.

Your family’s so much safer home
You can play games together or make up a poem
So stay there
Where all the germs are clean, stay there
Where you can have sweet dreams, stay there
You’re gonna be alright now.

Someday we’ll be free again to roam throughout the city,
Someday we’ll have reason to get dressed up real pretty,
Won’t that be great?

So maybe I’ll shoot you a text
We can forget all our troubles and not get too vexed
And think of some day
Things will be fine, you know, someday
TP’ll be back in stock, someday
Just don’t go downtown til then
Downtown
Downtown
Downtown
Downtown


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