Free Range by Bill Whitehead for July 30, 2022

Be sure to don your “running” for your life shoes.

Cue Jo Stafford, for whom “On The Sunny Side Of The Street” was a hit in 1945.

I used to walk in the shade, with my blues on parade.

And don’t be a chicken – cause they never cross the road

Hurry up, Sonny, the light is about to change.

I like the sign down the street better…

Wake up, fall out of bed

Drag a comb across your head

Find your way downstairs and drink a cup

And look up, and notice you are late.

Find your coat and grab your hat

Make the bus in seconds flat

Find your way upstairs and have a smoke

And somebody speaks and you go into a dream

Love it!

I’ll be singing it the rest of the day.

I’d be dancing across that street!

Directing him to Famous Footwear.

With the heat this summer, I’ll stick with: “I used to walk in the shade”

Must be Tin Pan alley.

And by the time you’ve finished reading all that, the light has changed and you’re run over by the next car going through the intersection.

This is why they don’t let songwriters design traffic signals.