During the planning stages leading up to last weekend’s Virginia Blogfest, Laurie and I discovered that we have many things in common. One of them is a freakish unique talent for rewriting lyrics to familiar tunes. Thus, we put our heads together and came up with this little ditty to honor our hostesses. Rumor has it there’s a video of our only performance; I’ll amend my post when it comes my way, but until then, you know the tune, so sing along in your head.
TO THE TUNE OF “CHOPSTICKS”
VERSE 1
Chesapeake Bay Woman
And Big Hair Envy are
Having a Blog Fest in Math-
-ews County, Vir-
-gin-ya this weekend, so
Gather your blog buddies,
Come for the weekend and
Bring some wine!
CHORUS 1
It’s sure to be a hoot,
Watch out for the goose
And also the fiddler crabs
The daffodils are gone
It’s terribly sad,
But that’s what the wine is for!
VERSE 2
Cookouts and beaches and
Star-bellied Sneetches are
Part of the charm here in Math-
-ews County, Vir-
-gin-ya! The Come-heres all
Mixing with From-heres so
Come to our Blog Fest on
Chesapeake Bay!
CHORUS 2
Who cares about the time,
Let’s drink some more wine,
Because we are all friends here!
When we go home we’ll write
On all of our blogs
About how we love it here.
VERSE 3
(we’ll) Go to the courthouse and
Stand in the Food “Line” to
Gather provisions and buy us some wine,
Then we’ll go to Gwynn’s Island,
Eat dinner in Hallieford,
Light us a bonfire
And drink some beer
CHORUS 3
We thank you very much
For hosting this Fest,
You really are just the best!
Let’s raise our glasses to
Big Hair Envy and
The Chesapeake Bay Woman!
***
PS – Look over there, at the top part of my right sidebar – I’ve added a special blogroll section that includes links to all of the fine bloggers who attended the shindig.
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You two, have mad skillz. I can not wait to see the video! Maybe it can go viral.
This was on of the many highlights of the week end!
Way too cute!
One of the very best part of our weekend. I am THRILLED it was taped!
APPLAUSE and apple sauce … its wonderful and I am so hoping Auds did video it .. you did, didnt you Auds?
I didn’t get to hear all the words while you were singing it and reading it back, it’s so damn clever! Equally so is putting that blogroll like that. I think I need to borrow this idea for my site!! I hope you don’t mind.
This will be the theme song when the movie comes out. And don’t rule that one out!
You two are incredibly, insanely talented. Great singers, great piano players, great song writers, great entertainers and most of all great friends.
Simply incredible – you two.
Surely one of the high points of the weekend! In fact, I’ll drink to that! And to the fact that I can say I knew you “when”!
Y’all are awesome!
BAH, it’s just for all y’all, not for any other purpose. I was happy we could entertain you, that you didn’t all shake your head and mutter, “WHAT were they THINKING?”!
Kate – I hope you ALL will blogroll everyone! I separated the group out, but if I end up on you guys’s blogrolls that’ll make me smile. :-)
Priceless. I cannot wait for the video;)
We finish each other’s sentences, don’t we, Meg? But I think that’s true of all of us at Blogfest — and many others who couldn’t happen to be there but SHOULD HAVE. It was lots of fun to do that . . .
. . . but huge props to Meg for PLAYING THE PIANO WHILE SINGING (especially lyrics that aren’t yet burned into one’s memory). It’s very hard to do, but Miss Meg rocked it. KUDOS.
Aw shucks, Foolery – anyone can play Chopsticks, and frankly, I had obsessed over the meter of our lyrics and did practically have ‘em memorized. In fact, it’s been lodged in my brain since we performed and I CAN’T MAKE IT STOP, someone, please, make it STOP ALREADY…
I am drinkin’ and playing that song in my head right now. You guys are too much. Love you all.
Right back atcha, Bayman!