SATURDAY COVER MAN
(TO: “Popeye the Sailor Man”)
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I’m a Saturday Cover Man,
I work when one has other plans…
I substitute
But this was my route,
Most things I understand!
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Was hired to work weekends
It’s been a long time since then…
Was switched to week nights
With all those delights,
‘Til now, haven’t returned again!
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He and I became friends,
From seven years of weekends…
Our sympathy
To his family,
Next week this covering ends.
–Jonathan Caswell
THE PEEPERS HAVE RETURNED!
(Tune: “Oh Jerusalem!”)
Last night as I was walking
Around the fact’ry grounds,
I came around a building to hear glorious sounds….
I came around a building there to hear glorious sounds!
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The peeper frogs,
The peeper frogs,
Cheeping for all their worth:
In Springtime they are most welcome,
Sure signs of a warming earth,
In Springtime they are most welcome…
Sure signs of Springtime birth!
–
A thought then occurred to me–
It was an instant thing—
Not gradually but all at once
The frogs began to sing…
Not gradually but all at once
Our frogs began to sing!
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Our peeper frogs,
Our peeper frogs
Singing for all their worth…
Their arrival is very welcome,
Mating calls of great mirth…
Their outbursts signal Springtime,
Is breaking out on the Earth!!!!
–Jonathan Caswell
TAISA’S HOMELAND
(Can be sung, to “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” but you don’t have to!)
I haven’t dared ask as yet,
Ukrainia was their home…
And often-times they’d visit
The remaining folks back home;
Taisa was rather nice,
We grew up side-by-side…
Appreciating each other’s
Intense ethnic pride.
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I hope their relatives o’er there
Are safe and un-endangered…
A troubling time Ukrainians
Have definitely endured;
Please pray for Orthodox churches
Priests, bishops and all
That they might offer comfort
In the midst of political walls!
–Jonathan Caswell
THE STORY OF MEPHIBOSHETH*
(tune of “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV theme)
Now…
This is the story of Mephibosheth
Who was dropped by his nurse
After his Daddy’s death,
Raised in a home
Way down in “Loe-dee-bar”**
The son of Jonathan to be a star!
(Because of his father…he was redeemed!)
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Now…
The next thing you know
This Jonathan’s boy
Was hidden away
So he wouldn’t be destroyed…
But then found grace
In the eyes of a king
Because of David, his praises would ring.
(Restored lands…and supper, too!)
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For the sake of his Dad,
Mephibosheth was made to stay
At King David’s table
And not be sent away,
When David was forced to
Leave his kingly throne,
Mephibosheth mourned
Until David came home!
(Didn’t comb…a single hair.)
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Now…
David came back to
His throne and concubines,
With Absalom gone
Everything was back in line…
Mephibosheth came and
Gave up all his land
Just welcome to David
To his land!
(Split the land..with a Ziba-man!)
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So…
Mephibosheth stayed
And had him a son,
He was redeemed for
What his Daddy’ed done…
David and Jonathan
Were the best of friends
And that is how this
Story ends!
(Faithfulness…paid on down!)
–Jonathan Caswell
* Story contained in the Old Testament Book of 2nd Samuel, Chapter 4: Verse 4; Chapter 9: 1-13; 16:1-4; 19: 15, 24-30…nearly any translation or version of the Bible.
** Phonetic spelling (sounds like this!)
HOLIDAY LONG WEEKEND
(To “THE KING IS COMING”, one verse and the chorus)
The parking lot is empty,
All the offices are closed…
Many folks are heading out toward
Family on rain-slicked roads…
Houses filled with preparation
For the grandkids and sons’ wives,
Smells of baking and of cooking
We remember all our lives…..
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THANKSGIVING is coming,
THANKSGIVING is coming,
Wednesday night will see a service
In the churches here around….
THANKSGIVING is coming,
THANKSGIVING is coming,
Oh, taste and find God’s firm ground!
–Jonathan Caswell
WATER PILL WOBBLE
(“Yellow Rose of Texas”)
He got his medications
With double water pills,
Flushing out his fluid
Will take care of his ills…
With water weight reducing
He’ll easier breathe,
So he’ll not have to quickly
Make out a will to bequeath!
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He’s feeling rather wonderful
As he runs for the pot,
Cloresterol reduction
Is not all that he’s got…
All this extra exercise
Is doing good as well,
As long as he wobbles
Carefully to avoid a spill!
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His doctors have him taking stuff
With scientific names,
But when they say the name brand
He thinks they’re playing games…
It’s him who must coordinate
Between health services,
So there’s no duplication
Of what the other says!
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He’s healthier but faces
Changing what he eats,
To not binge out on candy
Or salty tasty treats…
This is the hardest thing of all
But he’s got little choice,
He’s got to stop fooling himself
His doctors all voice!
–Jonathan Caswell
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