Greg and I were both teaching when the pandemic shut everything down.

We wrote this blues song to humor ourselves, our students, and our colleagues.

CHORUS
Oh! We gotta sequester for the rester the semester.
Nothin' is the same, it's a whole new game, and it's kinda lame.
We gotta sequester for the rester the semester.
Oh! In a quarantine the screen is the scene, got no one to blame.

Gotta teach on the Internet, using Google Classroom, and Zoom.
I can FlipGrid, and FaceTime, and QuickTime, all from my own little room.
We got BlackBoard, and Canvas, and Quizlet, and Turn-It-In-dot-com.
But the worst things about it is the kids didn't get to go to the prom.

CHORUS

Got no concerts, no movies, no dancing, no restaurants, and no bars.
But, we got drive-thru, and DoorDash, pickup, and GrubHub, ev'rything from our cars.
Got no basketball, baseball, no hockey, no golf it's such a crime.
But we got NetFlix, and Hulu, and YouTube. Heck, we got Amazon Prime.

CHORUS

“In a quarantine, the screen is the thing…”

Greg Lapp in his makeshift studio above the barn