Sassy Lasses in Grasses

There is nothing like a cane!!! NFB-NJ 2011 convention.  Click for lyrics
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A CANE
To the tune of There Is Nothing like a Dame
By Carol Castellano
 
We've got walls we can run into
We've got crevices and cracks
We've got drop-offs, we've got columns
That can give our heads a smack
We've got lumps and bumps and bruises
That can leave us in great pain
What do we need?  
We need a cane!
 
We've got folks who want to guide us
They will take us anywhere




For our own sakes they assure us
They will keep us under care
In the kindliness of strangers
We can't be content to dwell
What do we need?  
You know darn well!
 
Independent mobility is what we're enroute for
What we need is what there ain't no substitute for...
 
There is nothing like a cane,
Nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a cane!
 
We feel restless we feel stymied
We feel that we want to flee  
We feel every kind of feeling
But the one of being free
We feel patronized, infantilized,
And so misunderstood
What don't we feel?  
We don't feel good.
 
Lots of things in life are beautiful, but brother,
There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever in any way, shape or form like any other.
There is nothing like a cane,
Nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a cane!
There is absolutely nothing like the frame of a cane
 
We will take our canes and travel
Anywhere we want to go
What we want is independence
In the fast lane not the slow
With the method of discovery
We'll figure out a lot
We'll get there with the canes we've got.
 
There is nothing like a cane
Nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a cane!
There are no books like a cane,
And nothing looks like a cane.
Nothing can tap like a cane,
or react like a cane,
Nothing protects like a cane,
Or detects like a cane.
There ain't a thing that's wrong with anyone here
That can't be cured by putting him near
A classy, really long, straight white, can't go wrong CANE!

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