Working for Peanuts, a Tribute to Charles Schultz.
A tribute to Charles Schultz that I wrote three days after he died
Working for peanuts....with love.
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No more comments from the Peanuts Gallery cause old Charlie Brown is blue he lost his little red-haired Girl and the world that he once knew Poor Snoopy's finally been shot down that Red Baron is an ace and we'll miss the little boy beneath the dirt on Pigpen's face Scchroeder's pounded out his final tune it's called, "Beethoven's Last while Rerun vanished on his Mom's bike into the distant past Poor Peppermint Patty has become just another restaurant treat It helps dilute the bitter taste that fate has made us eat ~ Lucy's been left speechless!! once a shrink, now she's been shrunk and dear Linus left his blanket tucked securely in a trunk ~ The Great Pumpkin has been revealed as another dream that's squash while the comic strip where Chuck's gang played sports a new coat of whitewash ~ Woodstock was snatched right from mid-air by a sneaky cat, named "Scan" what that Cat: Scan has uncovered broke the hearts of every fan Sally's smile is crooked now Happiness has been retired but you are a good man, Charles Schultz and you leave us all inspired ~ Sure...The Peanuts gang will have a place in history they'll survive and there are fun things we can do to keep thier memories alive! ~ Let's go fly a kite,
but just make sure,
it's eaten by a tree
then teach our dogs to dance,
and fill our sad hearts up with glee
Let's learn to play piano,
wailing "Lucy in the sky."
let's feed the birds, and maybe someday
Woodstock will fly by ~ let's make friends with folks like Franklin leaving hatred far behind us then we all can sleep securely 'neath our blankets, Just like Linus ~ Let's all Sally forth, and Rerun how life was when we were small Finding happiness is easy it is just beyond that wall ~ It's a wall made up of Blockheads it's been standing now for ages break it down with love, and laughter "Let's go back to funny pages!!"
