{"id":2006,"date":"2023-01-20T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:24:37","slug":"will-the-penguins-remember-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/?page_id=2006","title":{"rendered":"Will the Penguins Remember Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Will The Penguins Remember Us?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Mike McCornack) (version 2 &#8211; March 2020)<\/p>\n<p>Lately I\u2019ve wondered if we\u2019ve done our part,<br \/>To care for this planet and honor its worth.<br \/>There\u2019s been some unraveling, and we\u2019ve seen the start,<br \/>Of signs our inaction is harming the earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Will the penguins remember us after we\u2019re gone?<br \/>Or be anxious to put those bad memories behind?<br \/>Will they ask why we blindly kept puffing along?<br \/>Will the penguins remember us after we\u2019re gone?<\/p>\n<p>When the polar bears gather, just chewing the fat,<br \/>Will they fondly remember when seasons would change?<br \/>The ice floes, the hunting, the great bounty that<br \/>Just seems like a myth to the few who remain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[chorus]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[bridge]<br \/>And if the apocalypse gets us at last,<br \/>Will there even be anyone left to recall?<br \/>The Garden of Eden, our bountiful past<br \/>Tornadoes of fire that ended it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When the cockroach is master of our old domain,<br \/>Will they thank us for dawdling when we had our chance,<br \/>To fend off disaster from fire and from rain,<br \/>And rejoin the music of nature\u2019s great dance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[chorus]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Will the penguins remember us after we\u2019re gone?<br \/>Or be anxious to put those bad memories behind?<br \/>Will they shout out \u201cgood riddance!\u201d as they march along?<br \/>Will the penguins remember us after we\u2019re gone?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 <em>2020 Mike McCornack\/McTate Music. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will The Penguins Remember Us? (Mike McCornack) (version 2 &#8211; March 2020) Lately I\u2019ve wondered if we\u2019ve done our part,To care for this planet and honor its worth.There\u2019s been some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}