Let's Hear it for Music!

Music, what is it? Just random notes placed
On a scale diatonic, re arranged to suit taste?
Shakespeare’s “food of love” or Beethoven’s great art?
Reserved for the gifted, or for all to take part?
Whatever the origin, genre or string
It’s magic to hear your chosen instrument sing!
Be it plinkerty plonk, or silken of tone
It will be quite unique, a voice all of its own.

So come guitars, come glockenspiels, spoons or sitar,
Come pipes and come piccolos, and djembies afar.
Come castanets, claves, and dumbecks and drums
And Bohrans and bongos and gourds just for fun.
Come fiddles and flutes, and bells and banjoes
And all things that sing and cause tapping of toes.
No matter the culture, no matter the sound
Let’s hear it for music wherever it found.
For whatever the country, whatever the law
When we make music together, we’re not making war.