I Wish You Joy!

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Well, this is turning out to be not so bad a V-Day at all...

I happen to love this tune as a mood booster, so I will give it to you today:



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How not to celebrate now, why to sorrow from various woes?
For our apartment block now has an amazing neighbour, you should know!
We the neighbours didn't know and our luck we could not tell ---
For our neighbour plays the trumpet and the clarinet as well!

[Jazz-scat]

In the morning rings the alarm clock, I don't need no alarm clock
For I trust and trust completely the new neighbour on our block.
Early he will wake me and I'll get to work on time again
For he has his own cares --- children's lessons begin then!

[Jazz-scat]

There are those who don't like music, I don't care for their angry part,
But the children know this song now and they've learned it all by heart ---
I grow more and more used to it, and my friends, believe me here
That now I can't go to sleep if this music I don't hear:

Pa-pa, papa-rapa-pa-pa, papa-rapa-pa-pa, paparapa-pa lalalala,
Pa-pa, papa-rapa-pa-pa, papa-rapa-pa-pa, paparapa-pa!

(This is by Edita Pieha, and she has an absolutely beautiful accent, with her higher and closer vowels.)