One of my favorite movies when I was a kid was The Wizard of Oz. One of my favorite songs from the classic? “If I Were King of the Forest,” sung to perfection by Bert Lahr in his role as the Cowardly Lion.
There’s an even more personal tie-in. Some years later when I was an undergrad at IUP, I gave my long hair an odd-looking clip job that made me resemble the Cowardly Lion. In fact, my friends would greet me with a teasing, “Put ‘em up, put ‘em up.”
Excuse the silly lead-in.