Ah! Got a full, uninterrupted eight hours of
sleep, woke a few minutes before my alarm went off at six, did a brisk workout
followed by a healthy breakfast and a protein shake, then hopped into the
shower. While scrubbing myself clean and
shaving in the hot spray, a bird just outside the open bathroom window
serenaded me … a hauntingly but familiar melody from my youth …
NAH, Nah, nah –
Na-nuh Na-nuh Nah! Nah!
Over and over
again:
NAH, Nah, nah –
Na-nuh Na-nuh Nah! Nah!
As I got out and
toweled off, it suddenly came to me.
Could it really be? Yes! It is!
The theme from Fat Albert! “Nah, nah, nah, gonna have a good
time! Hey hey hey!”
Needless to say,
that damn bird brought a smile to my face, and to my wife’s, when I related the incident to her.
* * * * *
However, after giving it a generous amount of thought, I don’t think that little creature really was singing the theme song
of Fat Albert to me. I think, that if we had a sparrow-to-English
translation device (perhaps on Google), that song’s lyrics would go something
like this:
I
must
Confess
that I am only dust.
But
once a rose within me grew;
Its
rootlets shot, its flowerets flew;
And
all the rose’s sweetness rolled
Throughout
the texture of my mould;
And
so it is that I impart
Perfume
to them, whoever thou art.
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