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The 1960 musical “Camelot,” written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and based on the 1958 Novel, “The Once and Future King,” by T. H. White, was purportedly a favorite of JFK.
It occurred to me some of the songs, tweaked a bit, might lend themselves to the unusual times of the present. I think the current occupant of the White House would not necessarily be displeased.
Forthwith, a sampling of lyrics (with gratitude and apologies to Lerner & Loewe. I have altered only a few words. The memorable music remains intact).
In no particular order:
IF EVER I WOULD LEAVE YOU (sung to the American people by the current POTUS; what? you didn’t know he could sing?)
If ever I would leave you
It wouldn’t be in summer.
Seeing how in summer
I never would go.
My hair streaked in sunlight,
My skin like a flame,
My face with a luster
That puts gold to shame.
But if I’d ever leave you,
It couldn’t be in autumn.
How I’d leave in autumn
I never will know.
