Today was the first official day of school, and there was plenty of pomp and ceremony to mark the occasion. Maybe it's the same the world all over, what with proud parents taking snaps of their daughters and sons walking with their new classmates, the various, obligatory speeches from school administration (in Turkish and English: double your fun!), the playing of the national anthem and obligatory raising of the flag, and of course the obligatory polka music blaring over the loudspeakers. Polka? Well, yes, or something that pretty well resembles Lawrence Welk's band.
Then after about 30 or 40 minutes everyone had just about enough fun, and after the middle and high school students were well on their way back to their classrooms, and the primary school students were about to follow, over the loudspeakers came an eerily-familiar tune... ah yes, and then the lyrics became audible, confirming that this was indeed a cover version of the old 1960s hit song "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" by The Royal Guardsmen:
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or moreNot that anyone was paying any attention to it. Just a few of us, apparently, and at least one of us trying to rid the tune from going around and around in our heads all morning. Not too bad a price, I suppose, for an otherwise colorful, interesting break from teaching!
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany
[wow, that's loud!]
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