Thank you so much, Áine!!! I am deeply honored, and I humbly accept the latest Mudcat Song Challenge! Whole Bag O' Chips Special Award in the name of songwriters everywhere! It certainly HAS been a challenge: I've had to win the greatest number of Golden Cow Chip awards offered thus far (10) to qualify for The Whole Bag. I envy those Challenge!rs who won their Whole Bags when there were fewer Chips... or does that just mean that I won a larger Whole Bag? (tailgate-party size?)

I'd like to thank all the other Challenge!rs who were so supportive of my efforts... and a GREAT BIG thanks to the Green Goddess Herself, the Keeper of the Book, our own dear Áine, for creating the Song Challenge! and keeping it a wonderful place to hone our talents, stretch our imaginations, and just plain have fun!!!

[music swells in background] Thank you again! I'm so happy, I could... I could just... SING!!!!!

(Now, how did you know THAT was coming?)


CHIP CHIP CHEER-EE
(Tune: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Walt Disney's MARY POPPINS, 1964)

Chip chippety, chip chippety, chip chip cheer-ee!
A Whole Bag O' Chips was awarded to me!
Chip chippety, chip chippety, chip chip cheer-oo!
Sing my songs with me; I'll share my bag with you.
Or write songs yourself – and you'll win one, too!

Now that the Challenge! of Songs has been sung,
You might think, "Who'd want an award full of dung?"
Though I spend my time with Cow Chips as I write,
In this world-wide web, there's no happier sprite!

Chip chippety, chip chippety, chip chip cheer-ee!
A Whole Bag O' Chips was awarded to me!
Chip chippety, chip chippety, chip chip cheer-oo!
Sing my songs with me; I'll share my bag with you.

I choose my lyrics with care, yes I do.
No room for a syllable that won't ring true.

Up on the mantel where trophies are stored,
The Whole Bag O' Chips is the one most adored.
Well, there's hardly a day, nor hardly a night
That things have to happen, or need oversight,
That would pull me away from my songs when I write!

Chip chippety, chip chippety, chip chip cheer-ee!
This Song Challenge!r was such poor company:
Nowhere was there a songwriter more blue
When I had no Whole Bag O' Chips. Now I do!
Chip chippety, chip chip, cheer-ee chip cheer-oooooooo!