God and The Devil were sitting on a cloud one sunny day, sharing a bottle of mead and laughing about all the pranks they pulled on each other.
Below them on earth, they saw a man rowing a boat down a river, singing happily:
“Row row row your boat,
gently down the stream,
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
life is but a dream...”
The Devil said to God, “What would happen if we took away a third of that guy’s brain?” So God waved His hand, and the man kept singing:
“Row row... your boat,
gently down...e stream,
merrily... merrily,
life is... a dream...”
And they laughed long and loud, then God said, “Well, what if we took away two-thirds of that guy’s brain?” So God waved His hand once again, and the man kept singing:
“Row... boat,
...stream,
life... dream...”
And they laughed even louder, and got up to leave, but then The Devil said “Wait, I have to know, what if we took away ALL of that guy’s brain?” So God waved His hand once more, and the man was singing:
“Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...”
I heard that joke told a little differently up in Canada where God and the devil did that to a Newfoundland fisherman. When all the brain was gone, the Newf sang “Alouette”
And here I thought there was such thing as a Democrat theme song he would start singing.
In the version I learned the guy in the boat is a sailor. When all of his brain is removed he starts pulling furiously on the oars and singing at the top of his lungs “BE ... ALL THAT YOU CAN BE ...”
That’s not right!
USAF 69-73