We woke to the sound of the neighbor’s roof undergoing its transformation. Ours begins tomorrow. And then this song popped into my head – and I had to research. ‘Don’t let the rain come down.” That ultra-famous tune by the Serendipity Singers.

Turns out it was actually a Mother Goose rhyme they adapted for our musical delight. It’s the theme of the week around here as we listen to the rat-a-tat-tat above us. I’m not reprinting the lyrics as they are already driving me nuts in my addled brain.

“There was a crooked man,”

BY MOTHER GOOSE

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.