I wrote this little parody of "Mrs. Robinson" to better echo the current Currituck Lighthouse debate. Some of it sounds a little lame, but I am not as great a rhymer as Paul Simon was when he wrote the original version. So get out that old "Bookends" LP and get ready for some singing! (In some cases, for the public safety, all doors and windows should be locked, foam be added on all walls, and neighbors be warned that that "annoying sound" coming from your house isn't that bad. Results may vary. Check with your doctor first. If symptoms persist, write angry letters to our "favorite people" down (or up) in NC. It's not my fault if you can't sing.)

Here goes...


PLEASE GO AWAY!!!
(Sung to the tune of "Mrs. Robinson")

PLEASE GO AWAY

SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO
AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY
SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO SHOO


Please go away, Currituck County
Leave Outer Banks Conservationists Alone
Go Go Go
Leave us alone, Currituck County
What did we ever ever do to you?
Go away
Go away


We’d like you to look way way back
‘round 1984
You got the opportunity to help fix up the light
You turned it down—and I’m sure I know exactly why—
All the grounds were covered with bits of the keeper’s home

And here’s to you, Outer Banks Conserves,
With perseverance you surely will win out
That I know,
You’ll own not lease,
Outer Banks Conserves,
And Currituck County will go away,
Yay Yay Yay, Yay Yay Yay!

“The bathrooms—that’s where no lighthouser goes!”
Says Currituuuuck County,
“Parking—you’ll have to put it over there;
Most of all DON’T YOU DARE USE OURS!

Shoo shoo shoo shoo
Currituck County
The rest of the county needs you, so go
GO GO GO!
Just please leave poor Outer Banks Conserves alone
And get to work on that big new causeway
Cause-a-way, Cause-a-way


Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
I mulled over this whole big debate
And, I think I safely can conclude,
Every time we turn around, another ordinance we’ll lose

Don’t close the light,
Currituck County,
We’re all grown ups here, we just aren’t not two!
NO NOT TWO!
What’s that you say, Currituck County?
We need one-twenty-five more parking spaces…today?!
TOODAY?? TOODAY?

Nice job Greg. I can just hear a group of lighthouse lovers singing this song while enjoying the beautiful light station that the OBC have restored. Who knows, someday I will be much older (with white hair vice gray) and I'll be telling folks "I knew Greg when he first started singing and writing songs to help save our endangered lighthouses." (Of course I'll still be wearing suspenders) Way to go!!

Ron
(CT Keeper)