Accentuate the Positive

"I am certain that your energy, optimism and sense of humor will help you to defeat the illness...I sincerely wish you fast and complete recovery." V.V. Putin

As do we all.

To the tune of:

(Laura Michelle Kelly in the 2009 London staging)


In medical emergencies
You may be troubled by disease
But is that really something we should fear?
For me the only way to live
Is just keep thinking positive
And then
Disease
Will simply disappear—

For a spoonful of Clorox
Helps the chloroquine go down,
The chloroquine go dow-own, chloroquine go down,
Just a spoonful of Clorox helps the chloroquine go down
And kicks the Covid out the door!

And for the noble and the great
Who manage our affairs of state
A similar encouragement applies:
If things just now look bad to you,
Perhaps you're merely feeling blue;
Do you
believe
me, or your lying eyes?

For a spoonful of Clorox
Helps the chloroquine go down,
The chloroquine go dow-own, chloroquine go down,
Just a spoonful of Clorox helps the chloroquine go down
And kicks the Covid out the door!

So keep on never saying die
And holding that umbrella high,
And don't be vanquished by a little rain.
For though it may be wet today
Those eighteen greens won't go away;
For now,
Indoors,
It's snowing pure cocaine!

For a spoonful of cocaine
Helps anxiety go down
Anxiety go down, an-xiety go down,
Yes, a spoonful of Clorox helps the chloroquine go down
And that's what we were aiming for!