Okay, so a friend sent me a greeting with the words, "Oh what a beautiful morning, O what a beautiful day." That reminded me of something I wrote, so I dug through my piles of crap and found it. Written way back when we had a major problem with drainage in Los Angeles caused by trash that had been dumped in the LA River and clogging most of the outlets. So long ago, I don't remember when it was, but it inspired me to produce one of my magnificent and epic lyrics set to the tune of Oh What a Beautiful Morning.

The Sewer Song

There's a dense, dingy fog o'er the city,
There's a smell in the air that ain't pretty,
The sewers backed up with an odorous goo,
An' it looks like it's gonna come out this way too.

Oh what a terrible mornin',
Oh what a frightenin' day,
I've got a horrible feelin',
Everythin's comin' my way.

All the people are runnin' so quickly,
To escape from that odor so sickly,
They don't turn their heads as they run right on by,
An' I'm packin' my bags as the odor draws nigh.

Repeat chorus

Oh the screamin' of people in panic,
An' the honkin' of horns sounds so frantic,
The smell is so bad that I cain't hardly see,
An' the car wouldn't start, why's this happ'nin' to me?

Repeat chorus

~J. Richard Jacobs