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When I Grow Up (GAFilk 2002)

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Two by Mary Crowell

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Thanks to John Brewer and Karen Murphy I went to my very first GAFilk in 2001 in Atlanta, GA. And I was hooked. I attended OVFF in 2011, and was asked (by Rob Wynne I think!) to perform at this new even they were having at GAFilk in 2002. It was a banquet! Apparently, conventions often get better deals with their hotels if they host some sort of food event. This particular hotel had a grand piano in its banquet area, and Rob and Bill and Brenda Sutton knew I accompanied my jazzy songs on piano.

Guys, this was the first filk concert I ever performed. And it was recorded. And I had lost my recording of it for the longest time, but it turns out the aforementioned John and Karen had ripped the tape I had of the concert to mp3's. And voila! I have these. I talk SO MUCH throughout, because I was nervous. But there are songs on here that have fallen off my repertoire for years, and not all of them are on my first CD, Courting My Muse (2007). So, given that I currently have three songs and one video in progress for Patreon but (alas!) not yet complete, I thought I would share these with you as this month's thing.

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When I Grow Up (The Jessica Rabbit Song)

© 2001 by Mary Crowell.
What can I say? I want to be Jessica Rabbit when I grow up.

VERSE
When I grow up
I wanna be
The girl in a sequined gown
With a bunny rabbit married to me.

VERSE
I know you think
I’m just a loon,
But she’s got great sex appeal --
That hair, those gams, that toon.

CHORUS
She’s not bad; they just draw her that way
Posing and pouting her lips.
She’s peeking out from under her Veronica Lake,
Gloved hands resting on hips.

VERSE
She loves her spouse,
Her bunny half.
He loves her a thousand ways,
But his favorite one is making her laugh.

VERSE
She’ll use rough means
To save her man.
When he heads into danger,
She whacks him in the brain with a pan.

CHORUS

VERSE
The private Dick
Thought she was vile,
But 'though he caught her playing patty cake
He couldn’t help but admire her style.

VERSE
Her heart is gold
(Looks like a jade.)
Even then if you asked around,
Roger Rabbit has got it made.

CHORUS

VERSE
When I grow up
I wanna be
The girl in a sequined gown
With a bunny rabbit married to me.

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from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Two, released November 30, 2018

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey! ... more

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