Genki? from ENKA by Bob Gaulke

Genki? (Dm)

yanked from bed
by your handle

propelled to work
by those shoes

neither rain, nor sleep
nor depression

can get to you

‘cause you’re genki
there’s no other word

genki all day
she’s genki she says
are you genki they ask
we’re genki all in

over cement-lined rivers
under polluted skies it don’t hurt

smiling as time goes clicking by
genki till you’re food for worms

with a little more effort
that will surely go unrecognized

find the pleasure in doing it together
in this very social exercise

I’ve never been genki-er
feeling it coming down
dancing genki
in this yokohama spot

• Alternative
• World
• brazilian
• eighties pop
• singer-songwriter
• troubador
• The Bronx