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Originally Posted by Boomer
Oh my gosh! SS! I just finished writing a post in that "Glee" thread about how I almost always know all the lyrics, even though I cannot sing -- except for in my dreams. Ohhhhh, I could sit in the front row and be your prompter. Darn it! I am still in Cincinnati.
A true story...
Mr. B. and I have been to Colorado and back during the past week. We drove. Aaaauuugh!!!! Sometimes I sing to Mr. Boomer while he is driving. (talk about a captive audience -- on I-70)
Anyway, yesterday we were coming through St. Louis and when we were passing by the arch, I burst into song. First, of course, it was the "St. Louie Blues" followed by "You Came a Long Way from St. Louie."
Well, Mr. B. knew the first song, but he said, "You are making that one up." -- about the second one. I said I was not.
As fortune would have it, I was in possession of my trusty laptap and so I went to You Tube and proved that I was not making that song up. I love both those songs. I want to be a torch singer. But I cannot sing and I think my slinky dress days are all behind me. (sigh) (sigh) But I remember lyrics.
Here is the link I used to convince Mr. Boomer that I did not make that song up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtIEsVtTG8
(Although I am working on one called "Well, I Never Been to Spain, But I Been to KANSAS! KANSAS! AND MORE KANSAS!")
Dorothy Boomer |
Boomer, now that's weird! Whenever anything even remontely reminds me of a tune, I break into song too. (I can't sing either.) That's not what's weird though.
What's weird is that one night I started singing this really obscure song called, "The Night Chicago Died". To be honest, I don't even remember where I had ever heard it or why I started singing it.
At any rate, my husband swore up and down there was no such song and that I was making it up. Isn't that funny. It was even about a city, like yours. Actually, it's a story song about Al Capone. It's not a good song, like that lovely "You Came a Long Way from St. Louie." But it has a catchy beat that apparently stuck somewhere in the depths of my memory and bubbled to the surface some 30 years later for no apparent reason.
Anyway, like you, I went to YouTube to find it to prove to DH that it wasn't a figment of my imagination. Fair warning. It ain't too good.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk&feature=related[/ame]
Ditto Turner