Collected Item: “A Song in Honor of the End of the Texas Mask Mandate”
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A Song in Honor of the End of the Texas Mask Mandate
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Lyrics to a made up song set to the tune of "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
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These lyrics were composed by an anonymous individual to celebrate Governor Gregg Abbott's March 2 2021 announcement that he was ending the Texas state-wide mask mandate on March 10th. The person who created this song composed it in a state of happy exhilaration and surprise. The song communicates a couple of things about people who do not like wearing masks everywhere they go when they are outside their homes. First, it captures a deep sense of longing to return to prior days when people did not wear masks and the comforting sense of normalcy that experience will bring again to the individual. Secondly, the last two verses express vigilant expectation and a sense of celebration for a day that the person was not sure would ever come again. The song as a whole is meant to be a positive statement of hope and a celebratory goodbye to a long-distained, yet new, custom.
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#HST494, #ASU, #CoronaCulture, #Humor, #Texas,
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Anonymous
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2021-03-02