Pluto, We Hardly Knew You

Headline from the Tacoma News Tribune.

Every good headline deserves a song, and every good
ex-planet deserves a song. How many of you are
familiar with the Irish song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew
You"?

With their 'scopes and charts and 'scopes and charts
Hurroo hurroo
With their 'scopes and charts and 'scopes and charts
Hurroo, hurroo
With their 'scopes and charts and 'scopes and charts
Th'astronomers did disown you,
Oh, you always were our farthest planet
Pluto, we hardly knew you.

What of your moon that circled 'round?
Hurroo, hurroo
What of your moon that circled 'round?
Hurroo, hurroo
What of your moon that circled 'round?
"Too small", they say, still on our ground
Such a planet as you never was found--
Pluto, we hardly knew you!

What of your orbit, weird and strange (x3)
That ran in and out of Neptune's range
"That planet's orbit is too strange!"
Pluto, we hardly knew you!

You haven't your status, you haven't a moon (x3)
But in my heart you know, you still have room
I don't care if those scientists swoon!
But, Pluto, we hardly knew you.

They're making out their charts again (x3)
But you'll never be a planet again
No, you'll never be a planet again,
Pluto, I'm sorry for you

With their 'scopes and charts and 'scopes and charts
(x3)
Th'astronomers did disown you,
Oh, you always were our farthest planet
Pluto, we hardly knew you.

Apologies to the people that inadvertantly made this
song happen--Theodore Bickel (like HE'D read this,
yeah right) who put it in a songbook of his that I
have and Atwater-Donnelly, who were unlucky enough to
record it. Oh, well, I doubt they'd see it either...:)
Saro

P.S. Pluto, we hardly knew you!