November 28, Here Comes Omicron  (1)

 

Here comes Omicron, here comes Omicron,

For the holidays.

Following Delta, with new mutations,

Feeding Covid’s blaze.

Variation and selection, Covid’s strategy.

If you haven’t had your shots, prepare your eulogy.

 

(Chorus)  Mutate, select and mutate, select and

Now there’s Omicron.

Mutate, select and mutate, select and

Covid marches on.

 

Here comes Omicron; here comes Omicron,

Right on Delta’s tail.

Vaccine resisters and anti-maskers,

Better not inhale.

Omicron is spreading worldwide; now it is surely here.

Stay in your room; get back on Zoom, for computer Christmas cheer.

 

 

(Chorus)  Mutate, select and mutate, select and

Now we must confront

Mutate, select and mutate, select makes

One more variant!

 

Here comes Omicron; here comes Omicron,

Covid has evolved.

Just read Darwin’s “Origin of Species,”

Mystery is solved.

Covid 19 has no brain but it knows Darwin’s rules.

It makes Trumpist anti-vaxxers look like stubborn fools.

 

(Chorus)  Mutate, select and mutate, select and

It’s a brand new plague.

Mutate, select and mutate, select and

It’s a powder keg!

 

• May be sung to ‘Here Comes Santa Claus,” by Gene Autry (1947) and throw in the “Thumpety, thump, thump” chorus from “Frosty, the Snowman,” by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson (1950.) It was also first recorded by Gene Autry.