THE BAGEL BRUNCH THEME SONG

Words and music by

BAGEL BOB

I

REFRAIN (PRE-VERSE)
Bagel brunch - no introduction needed for this gourmand production.
Dodecadition - we hope to see you there. Where?
3279 Maddux Drive in Palo Alto, an address that you should all know
Bagel brunch - we hope to see you there.

VERSE
Once again it is time to have our yearly bagel affair.
So here's the invitation with a tuneful interlude sung in praise of food
At precisely this time of year, well, give or take a few months.
We try to be consistent but we haven't done it yet once.

II

FRAIN
The bagel brunch extravaganza, potluck eating bonanza,
Dodecadition - we hope to see you then. When?
Mark your calendar: twenty third day of September.
That's a time that you'll remember.
Bagel brunch - we hope to see you then.

VERSE THAN BEFORE
Though late in season (we had our reason), we will get to it yet.
In fine tradition, the twelfth edition: bay gulosity, virtuousity.
Get around to this self-indulgence you're not soon to forget
At Kyler, Tayson, Bob, and Wendy's gastronomical fete.

III

REFRAINAGAIN
The bagel brunch extravaganza, potluck eating bonanza,
Dodecadition - we hope to see you then. When?
At precisely 48 minutes till noontime (Eleven twelve is harder to make rhyme.)
So we'll shelve that problem till next year.
[Delve into it later.]

REVERSE
I wracked my brain for a cute refrain to lure our bagel friends here.
A different theme from the last extreme, with innuendo and big crescendo;
A little lyric diversion in a style both vapid and vain
Of sybarites and appetites and hedonists, in the main.

IV

REREFRAIN
And doughy donuts deemed for digestion plainly pose the circular question
Bagel brunch? We hope that you can come from all different places
Come by boat or come by trolley. Bagel brunch annular folly,
Dodecadition - we hope that you can come.

REREVERSE
This melodious doggerel supplanting past paradigms
And thus preempting our last attempt of child book abuse in the style of Seuss.
Eclipsing themes hypothetical and, yes, the Trencherman Times.
Eshewing subjects medical for any couplet that rhymes.

V

UNRESTRAIN
The bagel brunch - food in profusion with our friends there in collusion.
Dodecadition - come help to make the myth with lox stocks and bore holes.
Weighty matters there for consumption. Eat your fill if you've got the gumption.
Bagel brunch - come help and make the myth.

UNIVERSE
As you inquire what should I bring? What gourmet eating delight?
Just get your inspiration from this little chorus of tasty torus.
Just let your mind wax creative with your weight exceeding your height
And when you seize those calories, I'm sure you'll get it just right.

VI

REFRAIN AROUND THE EDGES
The bagel brunch extravagonso - now you know just where to go, so
Bagel brunch we hope to hear from you. Who? All BBPLE people.
Bay gull bunch beckons your belly. Bacchanal straight from the deli,
Bagel brunch - we hope to hear from you.

KNOCK VERSE
Oh, we will count as the numbers mount in keeping track of you all.
From coast pacific to coast Atlantic, please RSVP if you plan to be
Breaking bread with the bagel breed with girth gigantic or small.
And 4-9-4-0-8-11 is the number to call.

VII

REFRAIN JUST PLAIN
The bagel brunch hotlines await you with this song to orientate you.
Don't refrain, we hope to hear from you. Who? Friends and relations.
Bring a guest. Bring all your cousins. We'll have bagels there by the dozens.
Bagel brunch - we hope to hear from you.

MAY THE VERSE BE WITH YOU
Now, here's a verse for a bagel friend who can't be with us this year.
Well, he did things in a Boulder fashion, in a Janeway and not a plain way.
With celebration and mastication, heart and gullet express:
He'll be with us in spirit as we eat our fill to excess.

VIII

REFLAME
The bagel brunch extravaganza, potluck eating bonanza.
Dodecadition - we hope that you'll come by. Why? Haven't we told you?
Bagel brunch annular follies - we'll have briosh, we'll have bialeys
Bagel brunch - we hope that you'll come by.

VERSE TO LAST
And now this half-baked missive straying from the odious norm,
With great temerity, circularity, bidding adios in a style verbose;
Raising your expectations of a most commodious swarm.
At yeast we've come full circle ending this melodious form.

IX

REMAINDER
The bagel brunch extravaganza - here at last, the final stanza.
Bagel brunch silly as it may seem: cream cheese, lox and bagels.
Bagel brunch overindulgence - hard to know just where we go hence.
"Luckily", I've thought of thirteenth's theme.