The Crickets Are Calling
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- (Billy.) It's golden summer time, and thru the drowsy air.
- Comes a well known sound,
- Rising all around,
- It's the little crickets
- Chirping, chirping,
- Bidding you have done with gloom and care.
- Oh, days are gold, and skies are blue,
- And merrily they sing to you:
- The crickets are calling,
- Enjoy today,
- Never mind what comes after,
- For Youth was made for Love and Laughter.
- Time always flying,
- Be glad while you may.
- That's what they are trying to say.
- (Jane.) Oh, no! that's not the sound of crickets, no such thing.
- How came you to make,
- Such an odd mistake?
- It's the little fairies,
- dancing, dancing,
- Dancing in their magic fairy ring.
- They laugh and play the long day thru;
- And this is what they sing to you:
- The crickets are calling,
- Enjoy today,
- Never mind what comes after,
- For Youth was made for Love and Laughter.
- Time always flying,
- Be glad while you may.
- That's what they are trying to say.
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