Ay de oh ho fish and swim, think it's time I learned to sing
I don't breathe right now, can't hold notes
Got no tone and frogs in throat
Who's my model, where should I go?
A tenor's too high and a bass is too low ... and I hate vibrato.

Ay de oh ho don't like opera, just the chords when music's choral
All together, not the solo, spare me shrill sopranos
But lately I don't mind contralto - I saw Jessye singing Samson
Remembered Kathleen singing from Messiah.

Ay de oh ho why this preference, how can one voice sound so different
Make me think twice on prejudice I've felt since my teens?
Looks prolong attention span, watching Arleen when she sang
Now she's gone I see it's wrong to label all the same.