Most people ignore the strange and unusual

It May Look Like A Walnut

lyrics by Susanna R.A. Miller
tune: “My Lord, What A Morning”

CHORUS: My word, what a morning (x3)
when the sky begins to fall.

There’s a walnut on the ground
as a Chicken runs around,
bringing news for all to hear that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a Chief standing on his shield:
there’s no foe to whom he’ll yield,
and his one and only fear is that the sky is going to fall. (CHORUS)

In this land of rhyming name,
life will never be the same
since the fateful day we heard that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a Turkey in the poultry-yard,
and he took this news so hard,
Now he shares the frightful word that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a hubbub and a roar
like we’ve never heard before,
gobble, honk, bukAWK and quack that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a farmhouse that’s been trashed,
all its windows now are smashed,
Farmer Jones ain’t coming back, for the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

Violent crime’s now running rife
As in “Your money or your life”,
Neither’s  worth an awful lot, when the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a village up in flames
in this land of rhyming names;
tempers run extremely hot when the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s chaos, blood, and riot
where there once was peace and quiet,
All you-know-what has broken loose, for that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a mob in panicked flight
Running headlong through the night,
Chicken, Turkey, Duck, and Goose call that the sky’s about to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a Fox they chanced to find
with a keen and open mind,
Wonder what this Fox will say about the sky that’s going to fall. (CHORUS)

There’s a Dana close beside,
“Where’s the evidence?” she cried,
“Prove, in some scientific way, that the sky’s about to fall!” (CHORUS)

Chicken said, “I’ll let you see
the piece of sky that fell on me:
evidence so hard it hurt -  oh yes, the sky’s about to fall!” (CHORUS)

“There’s a walnut here I see,
fallen from some walnut tree:
walnuts do this every year, and the sky has yet to fall.  (CHORUS)

“See the damage that is done
when unquestioned rumours run,
started by a single nut  - but for which you all did fall!”


You don't need to "get" the first three pop-culture references in this song, but they're fun to find.

Performance options exist: the chorus doesn't have to happen after every single verse, for example, or maybe barnyard animal noises can substitute for "My word" part of the time.

(There are many versions of this old spiritual tune. I used a simplified one found in many hymnals; sheet music  - from 1874! - can be seen here: http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/armstrong/hampt176.)