Oh The Time It Is A-Changin’ (Standard Time)
Come listen up folks in the US of A
Who are seeing the fall quickly slipping away
And accepting as true clocks can change what they say
No matter the outcomes circadian
You had better get with it or a price you will pay
For the time it is a-changin’
Go set your clocks backwards or be early all day
Get started right now cuz twill soon be Monday
Such a zombie you’ll be and it won’t go away
No matter how much you’re exclaimin’
The hour you gain you will lose one March day
Oh the time it is a-changin’
Now calm down your anger, ’tis useless to fight
Jump backward not forward and increase the night
Though you curse old Ben Franklin with all of your might
And his thoughts on the clock rearrangin’
It’s the time of the year when we’re losing daylight
Oh the time it is a-changin’
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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