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Post by yukkabelle on Feb 20, 2009 17:27:51 GMT -5
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Post by Lily on Feb 20, 2009 19:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2009 22:12:17 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Happy Birthday Wishes!!! [/glow]
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Post by huronna on Feb 20, 2009 23:18:27 GMT -5
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Post by dee517 on Feb 21, 2009 9:12:28 GMT -5
Happy Birthday![glow=red,2,300][/glow]
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Post by dee517 on Feb 21, 2009 9:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2009 20:51:43 GMT -5
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Post by pauljmsn on Feb 23, 2009 9:06:24 GMT -5
Sorry this is late, but my birthday greetings are on my computer at work. So...
(Skippy, a ferret from Texas wearing an enormous cowboy hat, comes out.)
Texas Skippy: YEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAWWWWW!! Don't let me startle you, I'm just doin' a rebel yell heah to kinda kick this birthday celebration off, ya know what I mean?
(Texas Skippy begins to sing, with the backup of a chorus of Skippys in frilly yellow dresses and a snare drummer going RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: There's a yellow rose in Texas
That I am going to see.
Nobody else could miss her,
Not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!) pardon me. That's just a shade loud on the snare drum.
Chorus: She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew.
Her eyes are bright as diamonds,
They sparkle like the dew (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: See now you covered up “sparkle like the dew”, one of the loveliest parts in the whole - (singing) Texas is the only girl for me.
(Instrumental interlude with piccolos, until RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: He covered up the piccolos there.
Where the Rio Grande - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Where the Rio - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Where - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
W - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
See, my feeling is that, uh, while I love a good snare (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!) drum, I feel that volume wise it's just a little bit too much what you're doing there. See? See, see what I mean? Now you try and hold it there. I ‘preciate it. I ‘preciate it. (Snare drummer tones it down.)
Texas Skippy: Where the Rio Grande - I ‘preciate it!
Where the Rio Grande is flowing
And starry skies - Oh, that's better.
She walks along the river
On the quiet - Oh that's so much better!
I know that she remembers
When we parted long ago - You know that there's just a world of difference, mercy!
Chorus: She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: See now you're slipping back into your old habits again. Why do you do that? Why do you - (singing) Texas is the
only girl for me!
I love a good snare drum but, you know -
Chorus: Tra-la-la-la-la- (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: Hold it hold it hold it! People, people, let's go back there, the snare drummer covered up the tra-la-las. We just do it again, smart aleck.
Chorus: Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Laaa-Laaaaa-Laaaaa
Texas Skippy: You see how lovely that turned out? Now that's a darlin’ part.
OK banjo...yug-dugga-dugga. (Banjo player begins playing lively.)
That's purty. That's purty.
Oh now I'm gonna - that's purty.
For my heart is full of woe
We'll do the thangs together
We did so long ago
We'll play the banjo gaily
She'll love me like - (Banjo begins going wild.)
Excuse me, you ain't any kin to the snare drummer, are you?
Chorus: She's the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: Why do you do that? Why do you burst out like that? It irritates me. That irritates me. That irritates me, that's all.
But the yellow rose of Texas - (RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
HOLD ON! HOLD ON! Hold on you smart aleck Yankee drummer you! You can cover up “yellow”, and you can cover up “rose”, Buddy Buddy, but don't you cover up TEXAS! Or I'll stick your head through that cotton-pickin’ snare drum and secede from the band so help me Mitch Miller I will!
(Some more Skippys in frilly yellow dresses come out carrying a long banner: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO LAURALEEME!)
Chorus (Building up to the finale): And the yellow rose of Texas will
be mine- for- ever- more-
(RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT! RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT!)
Texas Skippy: Cut it off there! The song’s over, you idiot! Stop it, stop it I say! Just STOP it, STOP it! I'm getting out of here! (A door slams). He ruined the ending, one of the loveliest parts in the whole (Opens door. RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT! RAT-TAT-TAT, RAT-TAT-TAT! Slams door again.) piece!
Hope you had a great birthday!!
Paul
“Yellow Rose of Texas” as imaginatively interpreted by the great Stan Freberg
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Post by shadoe on Feb 23, 2009 9:56:15 GMT -5
Happy Birthday!
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Post by greta on Feb 25, 2009 19:02:12 GMT -5
A very HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, Lauraleeme! Sorry to be posting this so late. I was out of town for 3 weeks. Got a new computer and had to figure out how to log on so I could reply to all you members. I sure hope you had a very lovely Birthday. Birthday hugs, Greta
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