A Song for Downtown San Jose
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A Song for Downtown San Jose |
Fellow Citizens of San Jose,
The Downtown Redevelopment Agency needs our support! It is a thankless job they do, but we need to remember that a vital and thriving downtown is essential those of us that are thinking about actually going there some day. Maybe you have jury duty. Maybe you're picking up a friend at the Greyhound station. Maybe you took the wrong exit. Whatever the case, odds are good that at least once in your life you'll end up in Downtown San Jose.
Thanks to the Agency's work, Downtown is alive with restaurants, parks, public art, and the one thing no California city should be without, Canadian ice sports. The Agency's latest achievement was getting the city to buy the old Woolworth's building. This means that you'll soon be able to boast that our very own Ron Gonzales can operate an Icee machine better than any other city's mayor. There's even a museum down there devoted to, as far as I can tell, the discovery of children. Of course, I should point out that Native Americans knew about children long before Columbus landed. Still, my point is that the efforts of the Downtown Redevelopment Agency have been paying off, slowly but surely.
So why don't more people appreciate the Agency's work? The answer is quite obvious. They don't have a theme song. They need a catchy tune that both celebrates Downtown San Jose and sticks in peoples' heads like sweet sweet pollen. Now I know that the Agency itself is either too busy or too humble to write such a song for themselves, so I've taken the liberty of doing it for them. Appropriately enough, it's to the tune of "Downtown". If you don't know that song, it still works as poetry:
If you like hockey and like paying for parking
you can always go - Downtown
It's next to a runway, and the streets are all one way
But it's still our own - Downtown
The Quetzalcoatl statue looks like a big dog poopie.
Just take 280 southbound onto northbound Guadalupe.
Or is that east?
The planes fly much lower there
If I worked at Adobe I'd really be scared
I go Downtown, to go to conventions
Downtown, to meet Rosicrucians
Downtown, there's tech innovations for you.
Better bring quarters you'll need them for meters
if you take a ride - Downtown
They've got these bars you can smoke your cigars
but only outside - Downtown
And you may find somebody kind to help and they can guide you
Someone once lost just like you and maybe they can point to
the onramp
But maybe you'll stay down there
Despite all our griping we really do care
About Downtown, we'll cheer on our Sharkies
Downtown, please no double parking
Downtown, forgive all our harping on you.