9.17.2026 – day to wake up on

day to wake up on
greet the dawn when a certain
man is dead and gone

Adapted from the 1941 song When That Man Is Dead and Gone by Irving Berlin.

Here are the lyrics:

When that man is dead and gone
When that man is dead and gone
We’ll go dancing down the street
Kissing everyone we meet
When that man is dead and gone
What a day to wake up on

What a way to greet the dawn
Some fine day the news’ll flash
Satan with a small moustache
Is asleep beneath the lawn
When that man is dead and gone

Satan! Satan!
Thought up a plan
Dressed as a man
Walking the earth
And since he began
The world is hell for you and me
But what a heaven it will be

When that man is dead and gone
When that man is dead and gone
When they lay him twelve feet deep
I’ll be there to laugh not weep
When that man is dead and gone
What a day to wake up on
What a way to greet the dawn
Satan’ll take him by the hand
To meet old Goering’s Luftwaffe band
When that man is dead and gone

When that man is dead and gone
Some fine day the news’ll flash
Satan with a small moustache
Is asleep beneath the lawn
When that man is dead and gone
What a day to wake up on
What a way to greet the dawn
When a certain man is dead and gone

According to Wikipedia: “When That Man Is Dead and Gone” is a political satire song released in the spring of 1941, with lyrics and music by the American composer Irving Berlin . The song is notable for its provocative lyrics, as it unmistakably—albeit implicitly—longs for the death of the German dictator Adolf Hitler .

The song is extremely bold in its content and deliberately breaks with conventions. It openly articulates the dark fantasy, which is actually morally condemned, that a better world could be achieved through the death of a single person. The lyrics never mention the target by name, but scatter subtle clues.

Lets say that last part again.

The song is extremely bold in its content and deliberately breaks with conventions.

It openly articulates the dark fantasy, which is actually morally condemned, that a better world could be achieved through the death of a single person.

The lyrics never mention the target by name, but scatter subtle clues.

And those lyrics …

Satan! Satan! Thought up a plan …

Dressed as a man Walking the earth

And since he began The world is hell for you and me.

But what a heaven it will be … When That Man Is Dead and Gone.

Just holding up a mirror and you can see what you bring before that mirror.

But I will say, I know what it means to me.