The Singing Patient (Carla): MP3s

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)

this was written on something of a dare. I was at my first "song circle," and they pass a hat around for folks to throw song topics into. Then 2 ideas are drawn for everyone to write on for next month's meeting. I was being an ass and I wrote "Wedgie" on a slip of paper, mostly to perturb Joe, sitting next to me. Of course my topic was drawn from the aht and everyone was annoyed.l So I had to call in my finished song over the speaker phone the next month from back home.

It was a dark and stormy night
There was no avoiding my destiny
I tried to put up a fight
But there was no escaping… the wedgie

I’d rather get the rack I’d rather walk the plank
Than have to re-live that vertical yank
I live with the impending feeling of doom
From that close encounter with the fruit of the loom

The wedgie

If I ever had a question
I am sure now of what I believe
The preacher was right when he said Sunday night
It is better to give than receive

The wedgie

I thought I had almost forgotten the trauma
Forgiven the people who’d done me so wrong
Til my recent vacation the Sunny Bahamas
And everyone there was wearing a thong!

Flashbacks! Seizures! Heart Palpitations!
An untimely end to my lovely vacation
My friends Mike and Dan say they can’t understand
Why I can’t put it all… behind me

The wedgie

I found a therapist in the field
Many dollars and several months later
We finally conclude it was my attitude
Fear is great but a brave act is greater

I would never adjust ‘til I did what I must
And so nervous and frightened and edgy
I approached my best friend reached out toward his rear end
And with all of my might pulled to maximum height

And I screamed out in triumph….. Wedgie!