A very Happy Mother’s Day to all of you Enchanted Mamas.  You make every day fascinating, and the world a better place.

Screaming and Yelling, by Maurice Sendak

When everybody screams and yells
Who calms them down?
Who rings their bells?
When everybody screams and yells?
The enchanted one.  That’s me.

When everybody screams and yells,
There’s nothing to do!
There’s nothing to see!
Who dreams up a place they’d like to be?
The enchanted one.  That’s me.

It takes personality,
A lot of personality,
To make them see it my way.

It takes personality,
More personality,
To turn twelve boring hours
Into a fascinating day!

I CAN DO IT!  That’s a fact
I CAN DO IT!  Don’t you see?
AND I’LL DO IT ALL FOR FREE!

Do you know?
Can you guess
Who I simply have to be?

STOP SCREAMING AND YELLING
AND I’LL TELL YOU ALREADY!
STOP SCREAMING AND YELLING,
AND SCREAMING AND YELLING,
AND SCREAMING AND YELLING!
The enchanted one.  That’s me.

You can hear Carole King sing Screaming and Yelling as well as hear the rest of the delightful musical, “Really Rosie” (the work of Maurice Sendak) HERE.