Good Works

If you haven’t checked out a facebook page called “Melanoma Prayer Center” (link on the right) you really should. MPC is a rich source of spiritual support for melanoma patients and their families. Its proprietor, Rev. Carol Taylor, is also a fellow melanoma warrior and awareness campaigner who knows firsthand of what she speaks (and prays). There’s an old saying that there are no atheists in foxholes, and I doubt there are many at the Hotel Melanoma either.

Thanks to Carol's work, I'd bet that a lot more people now know that melanoma has become as deadly a stalker of young women as that more popular pink cancer; it isn’t just whacking old boomer guys like me. In honor of all her good works, here’s a request: a new version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29_RZ82aZ6A&feature=related


I know that you are ghoulish
For the ghoulish things you do
You may wonder how come I hate you
When you get in my nodes like you do
Well Black C you know you bug me
There ain't no secret 'bout that
Y’all come on over here and fund me
Rich folks I'll spill the facts
This black cancer needs more money
'Cause pink world got plenty of that

I hate you because pink is now black
Crushed me complete
Hiding on my back
Spreading way too fleet
Stalking for young girls
Lurking out of sight
Taking all our money
When insurance denied
Black C I just wonder how we can stop your attack
Because pink is now black
Pink is now black

Well now well before the Bible
Diseases always came along
There's always somebody dying
From something that is staying around for way too long
We will cure you, black, with silver
And we’ll cure you, black, with gold
And we’ll cure you with new measures
That research will soon unfold
Docs say melanoma could be turned chronic
But Mel we ain't going for that

I hate you because pink now is black
Crushed me complete
Hiding on my back
Spreading way too fleet
Stalking for young girls
Lurking out of sight
Taking all our money
When insurance denied
Black C I just wonder how we can stop your attack
Because pink now is black

Now some folks say it's not big
And this thing too will pass
Some folks say just kills old
And that it kills no lass
But Black C is killer carcinoma
It's badder than we all ever knew
Hey man there's only one thing
Just one thing that will do
Some fine day we won't have to take it
Black C we will kick you out the back

’Til then I hate you because pink now is black
Crushed me complete
Hiding on my back
Spreading way too fleet
Stalking for young girls
Lurking out of sight
Taking all our money
When insurance denied
Black C I just wonder how we can stop your attack
Because pink now is black

And my thanks to Springsteen for his work in melanoma fundraising; I hope he wouldn’t mind that I butchered his song for a good cause.