A Little Dental Music

Strings a-strumming
Flutes a-trilling
Numbing minds and calming nerves
While steps away the beast is drilling
Musak in the lobby
Helps the patients to ignore
The fact that writhing agony
Waits right behind the door
Kostelanetz, Hank Mancini
Gordon Jenkins, Ferrante and Teicher
Lo the Mormon Tabernacle sings
The sounds of pain are muted by a thousand living strings
A little dental music
Your appointment’s for eleven
But you’ll wait in here till noon
The swooning strains of Andre Previn
Next it’s Mantovani
After him you couldn’t care
You’re in for brutal torture
When it’s your turn
When it’s your turn
Next!
It’s your turn in the chair