Legend holds that when the British Army left its ramparts at Yorktown and stacked its arms at the feet of George Washington, signaling the end of the American Revolution, the band played a ditty called The World Turned Upside Down.
That’s the way this season feels.
The lyrics to that old song are this:
If buttercups buzz’d after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.