Terry D. Sutherland

GARDENIA MORRELLI

Gardenia Morrelli had written a song
Lyrics were lengthy it was two hours long
Singers worked shifts to sing it all through
What it was about they didn’t have a clue

The chorus sang it so loud and so clear
The audience listening all had tin ears
The more they listened the clearer it was
Gardenia had written it just for because

The song writer’s guild had warned her once
Never write songs that last through lunch
She edited the song and song-writing manner
Now it sounds like the “Star Spangled Banner”

The patriotic overtones, Gardenia had built
Would be sung much better by men in kilts
It’s still two hours at thirty three and a third
When the men sing it at seventy eight it’s a blur