POEM - A Little Traveling Music

What’s your favorite song to sing?

To belt out loud while traveling

The tune you play inside your car

When driving around both near and far

I must take a stand

There are certain things that must be

Driving is nothing

If there are no tunes

There has got to be music

When we were younger it was hard

Sometimes on the open road

The radio just doesn’t work

And we weren’t fancy enough for 8-track

So we would sing

Whatever we could remember

For as long as we could stand it

Tons of Peter, Paul and Mary

            And the obligatory camp songs

That pore old cowboy

            Sure got stomped on the head a lot

I even made up new lines

New awful ways for him to die

When the tape player came

Things got better

I spent hours recording albums

Mixing the songs

Creating the mix tapes

A little Simon and Garfunkel here

Some Blood, Sweat and Tears over there

Carol King, Sgt. Peppers, and The Beach Boys

All added to the sounds of traveling

Then I went to scout camp

With kids much more knowledgeable

In the ways of Rock and Roll

I discovered the Mighty Led Zepplin

Learned what a guitar was capable of

Why drums are the heartbeat of rock

Understood how a few notes

Could inspire a road trip

As “Ramble On” reached my ears

Got into my subconscious

It made “because it’s there”

A good enough reason

And still I have my music

Wherever I go the radio is a must

So I can catch a good song

Feel the rhythm in my soul

Sing along at the top of my lungs

Breath deep and let the chorus fly