As any ornithologist can tell you, a male songbird sings 2,000 times a day. Songbirds, therefore, spend a lot of time writing melodies.
Gabriel was a songbird who wrote beautiful tunes in the key of F. Unfortunately he could never start exactly in the middle of the first note he sang. He was always sharp or flat, and the ladybirds winced and covered their ears with their wings.
Crushed over his inability to stay on key—which, he was sure, doomed his chances of ever winning the hand of Delphine, who lived in the tree next to his and was the object of his undying affection—Gabriel retreated to the writing room in the trunk of his tree, and wrote songs of woe for the weeping willows that surrounded his home.
It so happened that Gabriel had written a tune as a favor to his friend Otis, a housefly who wanted to sing a song to his best girl, Trixie as a Valentine’s day present. Trixie had proclaimed it the best gift ever, and Otis, who was unable to write a single note of music, was eternally grateful to Gabriel. Once he learned of his friend’s sorrow, he set out to discover how he could return his friend’s favor.
Fortunately, as any entomologist can tell you, houseflies buzz in the key of F. Thus it was that with Otis was by his side, sounding out the opening note with the beat of his wings Gabriel sang all 2,000 love songs to his beloved Delphine in perfect pitch. And as he sang, all the other songbirds, stunned into silence by each melody’s exquisite beauty, closed their eyes and listened to the most beautiful music the forest had ever known.
Gabriel was a songbird who wrote beautiful tunes in the key of F. Unfortunately he could never start exactly in the middle of the first note he sang. He was always sharp or flat, and the ladybirds winced and covered their ears with their wings.
Crushed over his inability to stay on key—which, he was sure, doomed his chances of ever winning the hand of Delphine, who lived in the tree next to his and was the object of his undying affection—Gabriel retreated to the writing room in the trunk of his tree, and wrote songs of woe for the weeping willows that surrounded his home.
It so happened that Gabriel had written a tune as a favor to his friend Otis, a housefly who wanted to sing a song to his best girl, Trixie as a Valentine’s day present. Trixie had proclaimed it the best gift ever, and Otis, who was unable to write a single note of music, was eternally grateful to Gabriel. Once he learned of his friend’s sorrow, he set out to discover how he could return his friend’s favor.
Fortunately, as any entomologist can tell you, houseflies buzz in the key of F. Thus it was that with Otis was by his side, sounding out the opening note with the beat of his wings Gabriel sang all 2,000 love songs to his beloved Delphine in perfect pitch. And as he sang, all the other songbirds, stunned into silence by each melody’s exquisite beauty, closed their eyes and listened to the most beautiful music the forest had ever known.
