The Ballad of Covid

(Sung to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island Theme)

 

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale

A tale of the Covid trip

That started on a chopping block, a bloody, slimy drip

The airports they were crowded, the pilots brave and sure

The passengers on board that day, for an around the world tour

Around the world tour

 

They fevered and they start to cough, the meals they were tossed

Instead of serving drinks that day, crews should have thrown them off

They should have thrown them off

 

The planes set down around the world, amid man woman and child

The passengers, the Covid too

The millionaires, and their wives

The movie stars, the professors and the fear began

Covid is here for awhile

 

So this is the tale of the Covid trip, It’s here for a long long time

We’ll have to make the best of things, it’s an uphill climb

 

The front line staff, the doctor’s too

Will do their very best

To save the lives of those they can

In this Covid mess

 

No jobs, no trips, no soft TP

Not a single luxury

Like living in a third world town

Not where we want to be

 

So park your car, hunker down

You’re sure to hide awhile

From Covid and it’s tragedy

We’ll bear the Covid Trial!

 

Alan Otway