Coronavirus Blues

Got some good feedback on my Facebook post, so might as well include this here. 

CORONAVIRUS BLUES  © 2020 Doug Goodkin

Woke up this morning with coronavirus on my mind (2x)

Sat down for breakfast and began to write these lines. 

It started in China and soon spread to other lands (2x)

We’ve got to contain it, so remember to wash your hands

Stay away from big parties, don’t go on a Princess Cruise (2x)

We don’t want to keep singing the Coronavirus blues

Don’t listen to the President, stay informed with reliable news (2x)

Listen to the doctors while we’re singin’ the virus blues. 

The virus keeps spreadin’, each moment there’s another case (2x)

Use your hand sanitizer and keep your hands from touchin’ your face.

Schools are closin’ and the lessons are going online (2x)

The store shelves are empty, no more T.P., beer or wine.

(BLUES BREAK HERE)

You can still read a book, go out on a hike

Play with your family, go ride your bike

Learn ukulele, sing a new song

We hope that this won’t last very long

Got the Coronavirus Blues (2x) 

From the top of our head to the bottom of our shoes.

We gotta learn a lesson from this public health scare

Everyone deserves some decent health care. 

We’re all interconnected, each one with the other

Now’s the time to understand we’re all sisters and brothers

Got the Coronavirus Blues (2x) 

From the top of our head to the bottom of our shoes.

We’ve got the same problems, the big and the small

You can’t keep out a virus by building a wall.

We can’t control a germ or make laws about the weather

It’s time to realize that we’re all in this together.

Got the Coronavirus Blues (2x) 

From the top of our head to the bottom of our shoes.

We’re all of us worried, ain’t none of this fun

If we get through it, we can’t keep doing what we’ve done

So let’s get to work, start to think a new way

Do what we’ve gotta do to make it go away

The choice is up to us, yes, it’s up to us to choose

Spread love instead of germs, And then no more Virus blues.