Requiem for Pigeon and Possum

I feel so badly about stealing the life of the greedy, french-fry gobbling pigeon on Friday afternoon, that I have decided to post the lyrics to "Happy Working Song" from the faaaabulous movie, Enchanted.* Also for the possum whose life was cut short in 1988.

"All right everyone, time to tidy things up!

Come my little friends

As we all sing a happy little working song

Merry little voices clear and strong

Come and roll your sleeves up

So that we can pitch in

Cleaning crud up in the kitchen

As we sing along

And you’ll trill a cheery tune in the tub

As we scrub a stubborn mildew stain

Lug a hairball from the shower drain

To the gay refrain

Of a happy working song

We’ll keep singing without fail

Otherwise we’d spoil it

Hosing down the garbage pail

And scrubbing up the toilet

Ooh!

How we all enjoy letting loose with a little

La-da-da-dum-dum

While we’re emptying the vacu-um

It’s such fun to hum

A happy working song

Oo-ooh, a happy working song

You could do a lot when you got

Such a happy little tune to hum

While you’re sponging up the soapy scum

We adore each filthy chore

That we determine

So friends even though you’re vermin

We’re a happy working song

Singing as we fetch the detergent box

Or the smelly shirts and the stinky socks

Sing alongIf you cannot sing then hum along

As we’re finishing our happy working song!

Ah...wasn’t this fun?"

*Kayte, have you seen this movie? Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey are just too cute to be imagined in this twist on the Cinderella story. The girls and I screamed with laughter through the whole thing, especially when Gisele tries to get the divorcing couple to reconcile.