| NOTE: we’ve written here before of these special people …The Regulars. See www.theRegulars.org and WORLD UP to all of you! We hope you can catch the beat, and maybe we’ll come out with our own recording of this! |
to tell you of a group called the Regulars
of their vision and plan …it’s spec-tac-u-lar!
‘Ya all listen close to this rhythm and rhyme
Cuz it’s gonna make you smile – so have a good time
Where do we begin with our debut rap ?
You may want to sing – you may want to clap
just so you‘ll understand – we want all to see
Sharing this journey will help us fight PD!
We is just two chicks with a problem in our brain
We be shakin’ and we be stumbling, and it’s really quite a pain
But we be makin’ da best of this struggle we are in
Cuz we are staying con-fi-dent that we will win!
We blog at Parkinson’s Journey ‘cuz that is where it’s at
we write of many things and to some we tip our hats
Today we’re braggin’ on the Regulars, we hope that you will too
cause they climb up real high mountains to help me ‘n you
They’re a special group of gals and special group of dudes
who pack it up, head on up, to new al-ti-tudes
to make the world aware of Parkinson’s disease
‘together is one’ – that’s! what they believe!
Their mission is to tell ‘em all around this big ‘ol globe
Why this year in July they will climb Mount Kil-li-man-jar-o!
It’s not just for Parkinson’s that they sacrifice this way
But for the millions with Alzheimer’s who are suffering today
it’s for these two groups and their families they really care
that’s why Enzo made a plan and then gave his friends a dare
So simple yet so profound it starts with a “T”
“together is one” we’ll change his-tor–y
Uniting our talents, our minds and our souls
NO doubt, great things will happen …no matter how high the goal.
Enzo had this vision to climb a mountain a year
with hope after ten that he’d could enjoy a beer
but ‘til the mission is finished and cures are found
Enzo nor his team will be standing on level ground
Regulars, we be prayin’ for you ev-e-ry day
for your strength and your safety and success all along the way
Many more go with you in spirit, as you rise
Reaching for our dreams with Kili’s summit, square between your eyes!
VICTORY we will realize when you shout loud from the top,
‘together is one! and ‘We will not stop!’
only when the cures are finally found and not before then
we’ll take on brand new challenges and then we’ll start again
when PD and AZ at last become extinct
we can tell the world we beat them with all of our feet
taking one step at a time, stepping together as one-
Ahhhh….it’s time for a water break, as it’s been almost two minutes since we first begun…..
Gulp gulp gulp….
We’ve something important to say so let’s take a lil break from this rhyme
To awaken anyone who’s asleep, exhausted from the climb
Now if anyone’s still listening, if anyone believes
If we’ve truly got your attention, then rap on with me:
I’ll say the final lines and you listen really close
Then we’ll say it together …we just got to boasttt!!
So here it goes….. the last of our rap,
Slowing it down for you join in, it will be a snap….
(slower, with emphasis)
we believe our goals are special,
we believe they will be won
for nothing is ever impossible
when ‘together we are one!’
Written for the brave and compassionate men and women who will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in July 2009, and for our friends and their families who have lived with and are living with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s! Judy Hensley and Sherri Woodbridge of Parkinson’s Journey (www.Parkinsonsjourney.com)
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Thanks for the words and the rap. I love to sing. It helps keep me cheerier. My wife and I work with the youth group at the church and I’m always singing. Quite often songs of our time. We’re 76,we now have them enjoying our music as we have learned to like theirs. It’s a great way to communicate with them. I’ve copied the words and with your permission. I would like to get the kids to rap to them. Once again, thank you.