So far only one reader has responded with a jingle from our request several weeks ago asking for submissions written in the Burma Shave motif.
The jingles should be related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but friendly in nature. The jingles will be illustrated. Some will be placed on posters and distributed around town and some placed on signs displayed in sequence along roadways like the old Burma Shave jingles used to run along the nation’s highways.
A prime example of the jingles are those placed along the two blocks of the old Gunflint Trail (Fifth Avenue West) coming off of Highway 61.
Karen Cronquist submitted this crafty jingle.
Pandemic social/distance truth:
Be sure to leave/ space for a moose!
Karen’s better at this than I am. But probably, so are you. Here are a couple I wrote:
Here to fish/Here to hike
Here to swim/Here to bike
Here to play/safe in Grand Marais.
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Tsk task/In a crowd
Wear a mask/Tsk task
Outside play/Put your mask away.
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Six feet?/You only have two.
But it’s the distance/ To keep from me to
you.
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Dreams of moonbeams/ the song of loons
Splay and play across my bow.
A paddle, a portage, or two
So I can get, six feet from you.
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Beep, beep/ Goes the horn.
Hurry little sheep/ Before you get shorn.
(I know. That one works for Chuck’s
Barbershop but not so much for this topic).
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Cook County/ Yea!
Stay safe/ Six feet away.
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Slow down/ Relax!
But in town/ Wear your mask.
My 15 minutes are up. Send your jingles to ccnh@boreal.org and I will print them and then send them to Ann Brataas, BorealCorps, who is behind this fun project.
Send your jingles to ccnh@boreal.org
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