It was a great pleasure working with the lyrics of one of Canada’s best jazz/folk performers, the legendary Joni Mitchell. Her songs remain as current and valid, today, as when they were first penned. She represents one of the most original voices of her generation. For anyone who doesn’t recognize the song title “Big Yellow Taxi,” this is the “They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot” song. LOL Recently, I heard one of the younger up-and-coming bands do a cover version of this tune. The lyrics speak to current generations as much as they did to their parents or grandparents. Link to original lyrics: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bigyellow.htm

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“Dealing With Cuddy”

Cuddy told House twice

She wants him to stop

Dodging his clinic duty and seeks

To get him to do the job that he’s not

Cuddy always seems to know

When House is trying to wriggle out of a tight spot

Her rules are set in stone

So House dispenses medical advice

And calls his patients “morons” a lot

It takes all three

Of House’s Ducklings just to run him

And they think up whopping lies

About patients just to get House to see them

Cameron always seems to show

She’ll be warm and fuzzy to House even when he’s not

When he’s home

He plays the piano like paradise

And drinks a Scotch, neat, shot

Hey lawyer lawyer

Don’t bother him with malpractice worries, now

The cases he grapples

Are the toughest nuts of the medical community

Geez!

Although he’s cranky he seems to show

Deep down inside he cares a lot

Just leave him alone

He doesn’t have to act nice

To give people without hope a second shot

Until late at night

House studies cases

And goes over patients’ exams

And sometimes he

Gets a visit from Wilson the ‘marrying man’

Even when he’s feeling low

A puzzling medical condition fires up his interest a lot

Hasn’t he shown

Even when his leg feels like it’s in a vice

He’s critically ill patients’ best shot