Sometimes keeping old technology going has great advantages. When I wrote “Onward” in a message this morning, I remembered a song in a movie I saw as a child, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” It was the first story by Ian Fleming — yes, that Ian Fleming, Mr. Bond — I ever saw on the screen. It’s a fantasy about a flying car. The old technology, not Chitty’s (the car’s) new stuff, comes in because I got the soundtrack album as a present, and I still have it. It’s playing now.
The song that came to mind, the words I need to share, came in a scene when Chitty (the car) has been captured and bumbling scientists are trying to copy her for the villain. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman wrote the music and lyrics. With a spot of help from stlyrics.com (although I’ve known them most of my life), here are parts of the lyrics. Regardless of where we are, what we’re doing for healing (from the riots or the virus — remember that), finding peace and rebuilding a better city, onward and upward we must press!
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