Annapolis Too, Do-be-do-be-do

      Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita
         Trini Lopez of Kansas City

      Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA
         Sittin’ on the dock of a bay

      Chicago was Sinatra’s kind of town
         He belted out the refrain

      Guthrie’s ‘City of New Orleans’
         Turned out be an Illinois train

       So why don’t they sing of Annapolis!
         It rhymes with Minneapolis and Indianapolis

       And fifty-four astronauts graduated the Naval Academy 
         ~ Updating ‘Anchors Aweigh’ would gladden me

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Date: 9/5/2024 7:41:00 PM
Annapolis is a wonderful American treasure. Thank you for remembering it in your poem.
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/5/2024 7:59:00 PM
Annapolis sure does beat Minneapolis hands down these days, doesn't it?!
Date: 9/5/2024 10:18:00 AM
Delightful verse, Gershon! By the way, you called a home run for me - the poem "Ladies Nite at Clyde's Bar" was selected as POTD! Thanks my dear friend! BoB H
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/5/2024 11:39:00 AM
Hey, hey -- you really knocked it out of the park with this one, Bob! Ole! ~ Gershon
Date: 9/5/2024 8:44:00 AM
Good point, Gershon. My late husband being a Navy veteran, loved the big Army-Navy football game each year. The Naval Academy is such a legacy. Wish I would of had the grades to attend. Oh well. Shalom and have a creative Thursday. :)
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/5/2024 7:58:00 PM
Oh, well. Everything is for the best. Right?! Keep smiling, gw
Date: 9/5/2024 12:20:00 AM
I think you've just put it on the map Gershon. Now the whole world will know of it. Tom
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/5/2024 7:57:00 PM
Really! I thought everyone knew that God didn't make those little green appolis in Annapolis (or Minneapolis, for that matter). Old Roger Miller song there. lol.
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