This is a song for the musical above in the tune of:
The Girl From Iponema.....

Loud and gross,
and always humming.

The cicadas are back,
and more keep coming.

We spray, we stomp and
we do all we can till their gone.

Nothing works so we simply suffer,
We use ears plugs as a loud noise buffer.

We have to take it,
but soon one day they'll be gone.
(chorus)
Oh, how we hate them so badly,
Why do they taunt us so gladly,

If we wait very soon we will see,
Not one will be left in a tree.

So just be patient, its almost over,
Heed these words all will soon be clover,
The Cicadas life span is short,
and soon they will be....dead.

Great song Chatty. I was thinking of "Rent" where the lovers are dying of aids and the opera "La Boheme" on which it is based where they are dying of tuberculosis.
I see the cicadas as lovers who have waited seventeen years to earn enough to begin the search for their lover.
They would be singing soulfully as they frantically search for their mates who they know they have only six weeks to find. Then if it's a real tragedy, they will die in each others arms before they can conumate their love. Or if it's a romantic comedy, they could die after finding each other and consumating their love.

Okay, it's a tragedy. Hey, these cidadas have a difficult and short life. A lot like an opera for sure.
smile

chatty, sounds like you've lived through this before. Great little song. Were you in Baltimore when they were here last?

I think chatty and smile need to start working together.

Okay, now I'm visualizing the eleven o'clock song, a baudy little number to wake the audience up.
I see the lead cicada singing romantically downstage about how he is looking for the love of his life and only has a short time to find her while a chorus of more pracitcal sex starved cicadas sing upstage. Their chorus would be something melodramatically off key and the lyrics might be along the lines of:

We got no time for love.
Love will just have to wait.
Seventeen years is enough.
Love's not a part of our fate.
No time for love
but sex would be great!!

then the romantic lead would go into some romantic love song and his lover could come onstage and sing demurely back to him and get pulled off stage by the baudy cicadas and the romantic guy could finally get close enough to kiss her as they both die.

As you can see, I am a very SICK person.
What a way to go.
smile

TOOOOOO funny!

Chatty,

Loved the song! You are so funny! Can't wait to meet you.

Sherri

Thanks alot for looking at my silly song and I am looking forward to meeting you as well. August is the HOTTEST month of the year so we won't be out of doors too much. People have been known to melt into their loafers in August....

Funny,,,when I was writing the song above (it took all of 5 minutes) to the tune of THE GIRL FROM IPONEMA I was doodling and drew a tall leggy Cicada in a bikini strolling down the beach, I laughed so hard at my own picture. Wish I could get it onto this site somehow, she had great tits and lipstick, oh, red hot mama Cicada . Today I called Dotsie and got her machine so I sang her machine the song since she didn't know the tune....