Norman Rockwell - “Paintings in Song” by John Myers

Every day I come to work here, and I settle down in my chair, counting all the columns in the books, adding up the numbers in the rows. And I must double-check them, double-check them, double-check, double-check. In every chair I settle down. I'm not funny, and I seem to make the audience laugh. But he always loves a game of checker. Maybe we could even let him win. Okay, let's do it. Let's get the board and line up the pieces. Let's bring the table over here. Let's try to bring our friends some cheer. Hey, Poki, do you want to play? The show's starting two hours late today. We can take just a little time to do a little game. Just to be fair, since you are so much better than we are, here we go. We move first since we know that you are the best. Let me see what I can do. I might surprise myself. All right, it's your turn now. Sing, Sam. I can see a pattern here. I can see a pattern here now. We can lift this group of pieces as we would have hoped. King me, king me, king me. Oh no, we're in for it now. We don't have many pieces left. We will carry on. Sing, Sam. Jump across. Sing, Sam. Jump. We are. We are, we are, we are. We will. We just speak. This is the faith I have chosen. Events we serve. Decisions we make. Await our rapture. Oh, Sam. Here's something right to say. Each according to her dictates. We know. This is our time together. Come join. Here we are on earth. It's so nice to be back no more. We share our lives together. Good things in store. We can't wait to be back no more. We share our lives together. Good things in store. We can't wait. Everybody's here. We have so much. Life suffers on its way. We can't wait. We have ways to get around. We're here. We're here today. This is our time together. Come join. Here we are on earth. It's so nice to be back no more. We have so much. We have so. We have so much. Oh, boy. Please sit down. We're ready to begin. Let's join hands. Let's sing thanks for what we're given. Oh, boy. Look at all that food. Look at all that. Look at that food. We need to see and know. See and know. Thank you.