(adapted to tune of Allan Sherman’s ‘Camp Granada’)

Hello Friends, and Hello Strangers

We are faced with brand new dangers!  

We have living, all around us

Something scary called Coronavirus!!

 

Where’d it come from? Maybe Wuhan

It’s in China, I’m not foolin’

Items in those open markets

Have turned us into perfect human targets!

 

I went shopping for some groceries 

Shelves were empty, ’cept for chickpeas! 

People grabbing toilet tissue 

Had no idea what I’d gotten into!  

 

Next I went for soaps and hand wipes

Clorox good but so were all types

Nothing left there on the shelves

Nothing left with which to clean ourselves!

 

Thought I’d gather lots of produce 

Fruits and veggies . . . put to good use! 

Lettuce, onions, peas and carrots 

But in that aisle people truly went nuts!  

 

“That is MINE!” and “Gimme that!”

Growled a lady set for combat! 

And all around her there were those 

Fighting food wars with ripe tomatoes!

 

Back at home now, safe and sound

With my husband and my hound 

Watching Netflix and some Prime

What else are we to do with all this time? 

 

It’s gotten crazy, so insane

Stay out of crowds, off planes and trains! 

Keep safe distance, don’t shake hands

And PLEASE DON’T GO TO FOREIGN LANDS!  

 

So listen strangers, listen friends 

Things like this do meet their ends

We’ll confront this Coronavirus

It’s bad, it’s mean, but it won’t survive us!