Down the Rhine, down the Nile, my parents floated merrily, a target for terrorists in their white golfing hats and bright-yellow, perfectly pressed spring clothes.
Press material merrily describes the performers as "the world's most glamorous showgirls (who just happen to be men!)".
At Roland Garros she had borrowed a camera immediately after losing to Serena, and greatly amused herself and her sister as she stood with the press photographers snapping away merrily.
"I have felt really good on court," he said at the end of a press conference that intruded merrily into the schedule set aside for Andy Murray to tell us exactly the opposite.
He may have merrily bants-ed it up with Noel Gallagher on earlier episodes, but while the press were still flagrantly bumming Be Here Now, he opened the show with a sketch in which he and Wiiliiiill put the defibrillator to a copy, to "bring it back to life".
The telephones, intercoms, typewriters and piano keys of Franklin Shepard Inc. will soon be ringing, buzzing and tapping away again in a revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" that James Lapine will direct for the 19th season of New York City Center's Encores! program, press representatives for the musical-revival series said on Monday.
The European press, and some politicians, were quick to portray George Bush's America as an irresponsible and selfish bully, merrily vandalising the planet for the sake of the air-conditioned, petrol-guzzling American dream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
"Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily," he says, looking anything but merry.
