Good evening Reno and welcome to the
Folk Legacy.
If you like folk music this is the place
to be.
Tonight's performance is an official Artown festival
event presented by the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
also known as OLLI, a program of the
University of Nevada, Reno and we are
broadcasting live
and worldwide from the OLLI stage on west
Moana Lane in Reno, Nevada. This is the last of five Artown events
sponsored by OLLI.
So before we begin I'd like to say thank
you to everyone who helped make these
events a success.
Thank you to Lynne Gray, Rich Siegel and
Donna Roth
for helping find our performers, to
Michelle and
Kyle and the amazing media events crew
at UNR, and to Oliver and Raquel at Artown
who kindly, creatively, and above all
cheerfully
guided us through the process of making
our events virtual
and available to all of you. And, last but
absolutely not least a big thank you to
OLLI's director
Kristen Kennedy who spent hours and
hours and
hours and hours attending to every
detail of our five events.
Thank you all so much and now
it is my pleasure to introduce tonight's
performance,
The Folk Legacy. Roger's introduction to
folk
music began in 1959 with the release of
the Kingston Trio's recording
of Tom Dooley a song told in verse
through three voices, two guitars, and a
banjo.
Enchanted by the seamless blend of
vocals
and acoustic instruments plus melody and
lyrics
that have become timeless, Roger's path
was set
growing up on Long Island, New York not
far from the iconic Greenwich Village
folk music
scene. Roger spent most of the 60s
playing
and singing in village coffee houses
like
the night hour cafe and cafe
IT. Following the infamous 1968
democratic national convention in
Chicago
where he performed during massive
protests, Roger move to Los
Angeles where he continued playing folk
music,
a mix of original compositions, and
traditional folk songs.
Monday nights would find him performing
at the Troubadour's famous
“HOOTENANNIES” rubbing elbows with other singer-songwriters
like Jackson Browne, Granite Clark
and Gene Clark of the Birds. In 1972
he traveled to Scotland where he became
enamored
by Irish and Scottish folk music. Upon
his return to the US,
Roger fell in with the Irish Beggarmen
a folk music
a folk group playing at Hollywood's
famous Brown Derby
becoming what would now be called a
fanboy
and learning all of their material by
ear and by heart.
When the beggarman broke up in 1975,
two of the group's members moved to Las
Vegas and started the group
Finnegan's Wake playing a blend
of American country bluegrass and Irish
folk music
in casino lounges on the Las Vegas strip.
When a band member suddenly quit in 1979
they called Roger who was at the time
working as a loan officer in a bank
and asked him to join them at the
Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino
where he sang and played acoustic and
electric guitar
and tenor banjo for more than a decade.
Other gigs followed in casino lounges
and bars.
In 1981 an enhanced version of the group
renamed Finnegan's Wake of Ireland
toured northern Nevada
performing in Reno, Elko, Lake Tahoe
and the main showroom at John Esquaga's
Nugget in Sparks. In 2005,
Roger graduated from UNR with a master's
degree in journalism.
After graduation he returned
to playing music and is a  frequent performer at Ron McCarty's
Ceol Irish Pub
as well as other clubs pubs and watering
holes in and around
the Biggest Little City. So here he is.
The one and only
Mr. Roger...hey Roger, how do you pronounce
your last name? Well, here I'll show you.
Well, friends I've got a problem.
Uncommoner than most.
 
A grammatical
phenomenon
That's followed me from coast to coast.
The problems my last name
It's unusual you see.
It's pronounced
Sch-i-may.  But it's spelled
S-C-I
M-E
 
SO, I GET SKYME, SKEEM, SHIMMY, SHEEM,
SKIMMY & SKI-MAY.
 
SKYMEE AND SOME OTHERS TOO
INDELICATE TO SAY. But it's Scimé.
 
Yes, it's Scimé.
please don't pronounce it any other way. It's Scimé.
But, it's spelled
S-C-I-M-E.
Yeah, don't forget that's how it's spelled.
If you don't like it go to hell.
that's the way you say Scimé.
 
I WENT THROUGH LIFE, FULL
BURDENED, IN PRO-NUN-CIATORY HELL
 
RIDICULED BY TEACHERS TOO DAMNED
INDOLENT TO SPELL.
If I'd been named
a Smith or Jones how easy it would have
been.
but now that I am older I accept it with a grin. WHEN, THEY SAY SKYME, SKEEM, SHIMMY, SHEEM, SKIMMY & SKI-MAY. SKY-MEE AND SOME OTHERS
TOO DELICATE TO SAY
BUT IT’S SCIMÉ,
YES IT'S SCIMÉ
please don't pronounce it any other way. It's Scimé. But, it's spelled S-C-I-M-E. THERE AIN’T NO “H”, THERE’S NO “AY”. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, EAT *** AND DIE! 'CAUSE
THAT'S THE WAY TO SAY SCIMÉ. THAT'S THE WAY GOTTA SAY SCIMÉ. THAT'S THE WAY YOU'VE GOT TO SAY SCIMÉ.
And that's a true story folks. Had that
problem with that last name
all my life. This is called a Folk
legacy. The folk legacy.Whatever. I'm a big
fan of folk music
and as Eileen, by the way that was
Eileen
doing that wonderful introduction, which
I wrote myself.
I did. Well, I wrote part of it. I wrote
my part of it myself.
And, lovely Michelle over there working in the
video and all this other stuff and I
forgot the name of the
sound gentleman or the camera gentleman
but I'm sure I'll get to it sooner or
later.
Anyway I'm going to try to keep this in
some kind of an order
talking about folk music throughout the
years. I'm going to start off with the
Kingston Trio and the song that really
popularized folk music.
song called Tom Dooley and this is going
to be kind of a scatter shot.
It's kind of a scatter shot performance
maybe by year maybe by genre
but we'll see what happens. Anyway here's
Tom Dooley for you. By the Kingston Trio.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hang down your head Tom Dooley.
Hang down your head and cry.
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE
I MET HER ON THE MOUNTAIN
there I took her life. MET HER ON THE MOUNTAIN
I STABBED HER WITH MY KNIFE. WELL NOW BOYS.
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD TOM DOOLEY
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY. HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY. POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE.
THIS TIME TOMORROW RECKON WHERE I'LL BE. HADN'T-A BEEN FOR GRAYSON, I'D-A BEEN IN TENNESSEE.
WELL NOW BOY, HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD TOM DOOLEY
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY.
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY. POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE.
THIS TIME TOMORROW, RECKON WHERE I'LL BE. DOWN IN SOME LONESOME VALLEY
HANGIN' FROM A WHITE OAK TREE.
WELL NOW, BOY
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM DOOLEY
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD, TOM  DOOLEY
POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD TOM DOOLEY. HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY.
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD TOM DOOLEY. POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE.
POOR BOY, YOU'RE BOUND TO DIE.
Poor boy you're bound to die.
Poor boy you're bound to die.
Thank you. Kingston Trio did a lot of
great songs. They did
MTA. They did A Worried Man. But they did
a song by Hoyt Axton
that i kind of like. It's called
Greenback Dollar.
By the way before I continue, this is
Steve Funk
over here. He's playing bass with me
tonight. We've
uh we haven't played together a whole
lot
have we? But this is like our second
rehearsal though.
Well some people say iIve had no count.
Others say I'm no good.
But i'm just a natural-born traveling
man
doing what I think I should. oh yeah.
doing what I think I should.
Well, I don't give a damn about a green-back dollar
SPEND IT FAST AS I CAN
FOR A WAILING SONG AND A GOOD
the only thing that I understand. Oh yeah. The only thing that I understand.
When I was a little baby, 
Mama said, "Hey son,
TRAVEL WHERE YOU WILL AND GROW TO BE A MAN AND SING WHAT MUST BE SUNG." Oh boy. SING WHAT MUST BE SUNG.
Well, I don't give a damn about a green-back dollar
I SPEND IT AS FAST AS I CAN.
A SONG AND A GOOD GUITAR IS THE ONLY THING THAT I UNDERSTAND.
THE ONLY THING THAT I UNDERSTAND.
Well now that I"m a grown man
I traveled here and there.
I learned that a bottle of brandy had a
song. The only ones who ever cared. Oh Lord. The only ones who ever cared.
AND I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT A GREENBACK A-DOLLAR. SPEND IT FAST AS I CAN.
FOR A WAILING SONG AND A GOOD GUITAR ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT I UNDERSTAND. OH YEAH.
THE ONLY THINGS THAT I UNDERSTAND. OH LORD.
THE ONLY THINGS THAT I UNDERSTAND. OH YEAH. THE ONLY THINGS THAT I UNDERSTAND.
Song called Greenback Dollar.  I mentioned
genres a little bit earlier. Some of the
genres
that we're going to be doing, I'm
going to be doing, we're going to be
doing.
We're going to be doing some humor some
life affirming songs. Of course we're
going to be doing some protest songs
after a little bit. Americana, which is a whole new
category just showed up last couple of
years ago. It's
sort of a catch-all category.
And, then because I couldn't figure out
what category to put
people like jackson brown in, I figured
I'd call them either
personal or singer-songwriter
songs. So right now I want to do a song
that's kind of similar
in tone to greenback dollar. It's about
somebody on a journey
and it's called...
Oh, it's by the late Fred Neil. It's
called Another Side of This Life.
Would you like to know a secret?Just
between you and me.
I don't know where I'm going next. I
don't know where I'm
gonna be
and there's another side of this life I've been living. And there's another side of this life.
Well baby i'll go to Nashville.
Somewhere in Tennessee.
I've been living in the city. Isn't worth
a dime to me. and there's another side of this life I've been living. And there's another side of this life.
[Music]
WELL MY WHOLE WORLD'S IN AN UPROAR.
upside i don't know
where i'm going next maybe just keep
coming around
thanks hey my great song fred neal
don't do another fred neil tune after a
bit um yes
besides the kingston trio there was
another group around that time sounds so
pedantic don't i it's not like i'm
teaching a class
um
there was another group around that time
called peter paul and mary
and they had a bunch of hits too they
were a little bit more contemporary they
were a little bit more cutting edge
and they did a bunch of bob dylan tunes
matter of fact you might even say that
they introduced
the country in the world to the nascent
singer-songwriter from hipping minnesota
by the way this this is totally
extemporaneous
not written down i don't have a
teleprompter or anything
it's uh ksc
how many roads must a man
fall down before they call
before she can sleep in the sun
well the answer my friends is blowing
in the wind
how many years
how many years can some people exist
he just
is
how many times can a man
look before he
can see the sky
yes and how many years
is
that was a bob dylan tune you could call
that a singer-songwriter tune a peter
paul and mary tune
or a protest song
here's another protest song
this is also by
peter paul and mary but it was written
by a man called peep seeker
oh
in the morning
oh
of justice and
thanks
um there's another song that i'd like to
do as long as i'm doing folk uh protest
songs right now this is one
this is this song was actually written
by woody guthrie back in 1948-49
there's a little bit of historical
reference here 1948
uh are you familiar with the braceros
there were mexicans who were brought up
to take the place of americans during
world war
ii uh because of course
the americans were out fighting they
were soldiers they brought up mexicans
and then when the war is over war was
over
they uh they sent him back down to
mexico well 1948
in las altos canyon
had to think there for a second los
altos canyon
a plane carrying these rosseros went
down
and in the new york times the following
day they had an article about this
and the article mentioned
the four crew members by name but in so
far as
the braceros were concerned they were
just called
deportees deportees because they're they
were
being deported well woody guthrie was
outraged by this because you know
anything about woody guthrie and all you
know he was outraged by many many
things anyway it's a great song it's
called deportees
but i decided to up it i decided to
make it more contemporary so the chorus
is woodies
the melody is woody's rest of it's mine
give me a second here
see what you think
you crossed over the border for
different reason
you crossed toward money or in fear for
your life
you crossed because you had nowhere else
to go
and you wanted to have the american life
you paid the coyotes and gathered your
family
you walked and you stumbled you burned
and you freezed
and once you had crossed the american
border
run down like an outlaw drug mule or
thief just another damned wet back
thinking
you won't say a name
you scrubbed out their toilets and
cleaned their hotel rooms
you slaughtered their chickens spent
time on your knees
you paid all your taxes and nurtured
your family
but when all said and done
they came to your house with night
sticks and flashlights
they came to your schools and the places
you
were the reason they gave you was
protection of families
but with your family the family
your ears
they won't say your name when you're
back at the border
screaming then locked up in cages they
say
you'd unite them i know that they
it's no longer the 40s but things ain't
so
different the powers that be
won't allow you to stay once you clean
their hotel rooms and toiled in
they'll no longer need you they'll throw
you away
oh
thanks i kind of like that song here's
the song
um this is falls into that category of
singer songwriter by the way i hope
you'll excuse me these are
these these are what i consider to be
folk songs i mean what else would you
call them
i mean deportee is an easy one but
here's a a newer one
by uh the late and arguably great
actually there's no argument about it
warren zivan any warrants ivan fans out
there
and this song is um it's a
singer-songwriter song and it's one of
those personal songs remember i
mentioned personal tips
and this one's called carmelita
as you can see i'm used to uh playing in
my living room where if i mess up like
that it doesn't matter
i hear mariah
down
well i'm sitting here playing solitaire
with my pearl handled
county won't give me no more methadone
and they cut off your welfare check
town
every time i hear a siren win
i almost have a heart attack
fixing mo when boyfriend says he's gonna
come and break my back
town
i think
hold me tighter we're gonna
sink it down
before i go any further does every
does everything sound out of tune by any
chance
could somebody please answer this
serious question i um
i woke up this morning with a bit of a
ear problem
so i can't really hear myself too well
seriously is there
is there a uh
it sounds okay
okay one second folks
okay i'm gonna try to
save my butt a little bit here
and do a song that i think i know i
don't have to look up the lyrics for
because it's an instrumental it's an
acoustic blues instrumental tune that's
a category that um
that i added and it's a song written by
the late davey graham and it influenced
tremendous number see i am getting
pedantic here
a tremendous number of um acoustic
guitar players
people like bert yanch steve stills
davey graham well davey graham and
nick drake everybody knows who nick
drake is since he died
but this is the song that really started
at all it's a song called angie it's not
the one by the rolling stones there are
no lyrics here
by the way it was also on a very early
paul simon simon star focusing
album
so
so
so
that was angie by the late great davey
graham
back in the early days before the
kingston trail
started bringing more contemporary type
stuff in
and definitely before the age of the
singer songwriter
um authenticity
was the byword folk music had to be
authentic
and so um some of the early folk singers
joan baez
and uh judy collins among them they used
to scour
libraries and places like that
to find authentic folk songs and one of
the places that they looked
were um what we call what we now called
world music back then it was called
ethnic music
and here's uh his song that i knew well
before
i got into folk music because i grew up
in new york and of course if you grow up
in new york you're jewish even if you're
not
and if you don't grow up in new york
you're not jewish
even if you are but this is a song that
that i learned uh very very early
well before folk music
oh
ah
foreign
i probably should have mentioned for all
of you folks out there during the horror
that you're actually supposed to be six
feet apart
which is kind of difficult because it's
kind of a rousing song
i mentioned earlier that one of the
categories was going to be children's
songs
and here's here's one that
remember i mentioned peter paul and mary
well here's one that peter paul and mary
did
and i promised a friend of mine
promised ron that
i would do this song for his kids
otherwise he wouldn't
listen to the show but you know hey some
of us will do anything to get a couple
of
extra folks up there you might know this
one if anybody wants to sing along on
any of this
anyway this one's called puff the magic
dragon
stealing wax and other fancy stuff this
the course now
up the magic dragon
lived by the sea and
collected the autumn misted
noble kings and princes would
bow whenever they came
pirate ships went
up brought out his name oh
puffed the magic
but not so little boys
painted wings and giant strings make way
for other toys on one great night it
happened
jack paper came no more
yucky
could not be brave
puff the magic dragon uh written by paul
stookie
i mentioned earlier i was going to do
some
protest songs so here's one
it was written by a man named pf sloan i
am getting into that teaching thing
i am yeah written by pf sloan
and uh he wrote a lot of stuff the
searchers back in those days
i don't know where i'm coming up with
this stuff
anyway um
he wrote this song for a man named barry
maguire
you may remember he was originally a
member of the new kiss new christie
minstrels
uh and
anyway you probably remember this one
i'm i'm gonna guess that you do
let me see this one by the way this here
these are my song lyrics here
some songs you just don't remember for
one reason or another
this is one of them although it's a
great song don't get me wrong we're in
the key of charlie
the eastern world
you don't believe
over and over and over again
don't you understand what i'm trying to
say
can't you feel the fear fears
the truth
crazy is is just
take a look around
uh
don't forget to say great
oh
protest song thanks
here's one i'm going to do some protest
songs for a while
take care of that genre here
this one's written by neil young
by the way if anybody feels like singing
along or clapping along on any of this
stuff
just please feel free
this summer i hear the drama
gotta get down to it soldiers are
cutting us down
how can you know
la
us down
how can you run when you know
oh
yeah ohio written by neil young crosby
stills and nash
there's another protest song this one's
written by john fogerty for queen's
clearwater
i can't help but i gotta talk about this
stuff
well no when i was working in las vegas
uh frank sinatra told me that
you should always talk about the person
who wrote who wrote the song
more than the person who sang it except
in this case everybody knew who sang his
song so
you know really didn't have to talk
about it but this song is written by uh
john fogerty is recorded by queen's
clearwater revival
and it's called there's a bad moon on
the rise
trouble along the way
times today
is coming soon
i hear the voices
hope you have got your things together
i hope you aren't quite prepared to die
it looks like wearing more nasty weather
by the way this is uh i introduce steve
before he's doing a heck of a job
good for you steve
considering most of these songs he's
never played with me before
that's absolutely true
this is another song that falls into
that category
that crossover between personal
singer songwriter and if you kind of
close your eyes and squint
just a bit it could also be a
protest song written by a man named
leonard cohen
isn't it a shame how many
singer-songwriters we've lost
over the years i i only want to get into
that
it's called first we take manhattan
expected speed to 20 years of boredom
trying to change the system from within
then we
well i really want
moving through the stations
i told you i told you i told you
i was one of those
i don't like your fashion business
mister
and i don't like those drugs that keep
you thin
i sure don't like what happened to my
sister
baby i love your body and your spirit
and your clothes
i told you i told you
i told you
love me as a loser you didn't think i'd
ever win
you had the means to stop me but you
lacked
the discipline so many nights i
dreamed of this
oh
yeah a song by the late leonard cohen
i'm going to do uh another one of my
originals this is a protest song
i need my harmonica i want to use my
harmonica on this i'm sorry sometimes i
talk away from the microphone i know
it's rude
has anybody ever considered the fact
that well back in the day anyway there
used to be songs
there used to be commercials about
places like the peppermill
there it used to be commercials about
about the eldorado silver legacy
all of those great hotels around here
and we had in new york and l.a and
places like that the holly
the beverly hills hotel and it occurred
to me
there's one hotel that
i've never heard a commercial for and so
i figured what the heck i might as well
write one
and see what you think would this kind
of
induce any of you to go visit
oh feel the warm breeze over the
bentleys and mercedes town they call
poppy where billionaires rub elbows with
the haves and have fours
with conspiracy theories for the right
wing
it's like heaven on earth where virtue's
measured by net worth
and it's not who you are but who you
know
and if you are in the mood you can
always collude with
one who owns more
where all of your dreams can come true
if you've got the bugs and you don't
give up
about anyone else but you
check your bags
but it sounds like an h let me see if i
get that
about anyone else
check your bags and your
thank you hey
how about a um once again i'm kind of
playing around with the idea of folk
music here
um
you know remember i talked about songs
that had um
meaning to them and lyrics that spoke of
them well
actually i didn't say this i was talking
about spoke songs
they were heady they talked about things
like injustice
they talked about things like freedom
like poverty
like inequality and um
of course bob dylan wrote blown to the
wind and a slew of other
great protest songs and then there was a
sea change
you probably remember this and
with one simple album
i'll bring it all back home and i still
don't know who that androgynous person
is
sitting by the fireplace if anybody
knows let me know after the set okay
i know you're all young out there you
probably don't remember these kinds of
controversy
anyway bob dylan changed everything with
one particular song it went like this
morning
oh
man play a song
and my hands
foreign
oh
and though you might hear me across
and if you hear big traces
oh
and there you go
oh
by the sun
thanks um
here's a song that falls into that
category i mentioned of americana
remember i talked about that earlier
this is it's that amorphous
sort of a catch-all category this song
written by jerry jeff walker
but the head on it was done by the
nitty-gritty dirt band
and once again i don't know where else
these songs would fit i know they're not
country
i know they're not rock they're not
blues they're not rap they're not
hip-hop they're not do up
this one is mr bo tangles oh darn it i
ruined the surprise
hello there's a song about uh and this
is
also a song i call this a story song i'm
going to do a couple more story songs
by the way jerry jeff walker is also the
guy who wrote
or whoever sang songs like pissing in
the wind and up against the wall
redneck mother this is one he wrote
oh
well i've been then in a cell in new
orleans
his legs
is
mr bojangle
all day
so
will he dance for those in minstrel's
shows and county fairs
throughout the sound
he spoke with tears of 15 years how he's
done
20 years he's still angry
behind these
ass please
for you
yeah bit of americana
this is uh one of my songs this year i'm
just pulling songs out of here
how many people out here anybody out
here like irish music at all
irish pub music the kind that they do in
irish pubs okay
i'm going to teach you a little part
here and please if you don't
if you don't all kind of join in the
song kind of falls apart
you know what i'm saying and you can do
it too steve it's a clap thing
this is probably the most famous irish
pub
song there is and once you learn how to
do the clapping part you can walk into
any irish pub in the entire universe and
you will be uh
right at home it's like everybody will
know your name
it's almost like cheers it's called the
wild rover
and the chorus goes like this i'm gonna
sing and it's no
name never and then you're gonna clap
four times
oh you know how to do it great why don't
you come on out here and lead everybody
in the thing
okay what's your name hon is that you
joe
oh paul i didn't recognize you okay paul
is going to lead everybody in this
but and it's no name ever
one two three four no they never no more
well i played the wild rover
no never no more and i'll help you a
little bit on this
remember this is folk music well i've
been
a world let's tell you let's try the
no
but now i'm returning with golden
brainstorm
well i've played the wild rover
i went into an ale house i often
frequent
and i tell the little lady because
i asked for credit she answered my name
no name
lady that he didn't have any money and
she said ah
did i do that first i'll do that
i went into an el house i often frequent
and i told the lad lady when he was
no
and the words that i told
i'll go home to me parents confess what
i've done
and unless their heart is happy
they'll kiss and caress me like all time
before
never
no more
thank you for joining in on that thank
you paula for coming up here and leading
us in that
in this particular song i only have time
for a few more songs here
this song by uh another dead songwriter
i'm sorry it just it just kind of
happens
this is uh tim harden tim hardin wrote
this song
but bobby darren of all people had the
hit on it
it's called if i were a carpenter
if i were carpenter
and you're a lady would you marry
me anyway would you have my baby
i worked my hands in one would you still
love me
promise me say yes you would i'd put you
above me
see my love through loneliness take my
love sorrow
giving you my holiness come give me your
tomorrow
if a tinker wore my train
would you marry me anyway
take my love your loneliness
take my love for sorrow giving you my
holiness come give
it
would you marry me anyway
i'm gonna do one more song
and this is because
i know a few people like it i'd like to
dedicate the song to people who are
listening like to dedicate it to um
roberta who's out there i'd like to
dedicate cindy who's here
like to dedicate it to heather i'd like
to dedicate it to betty and i'd like to
dedicate it to
kristin there's another story song
there's one that i wrote it's called
susan the girl from hollywood high
a cautionary tale as they say
well susan was 16 years old when she
sent out her winters
to any dogs
who can help her arrive
ambition and beauty of you are a
volatile mixture
it was only in movies it seemed that she
felt
most alive
at hollywood high school's favorite
theater
was mr macrae though his students
addressed him as jim
and of all of his students he was
certain
his wisdom would return
so he tore to the things she must know
in order to
she's win the start with six pairs of
shoes
and a nombos pig
in her bachelor apartment she sits and
she struggles all day
revising her list of the things that
she'll do and
she makes it one day
on earth who landed apart in
a picture
it wasn't that much just a waitress
a really small role
mother girlfriends in ninth grade all
told her she'd soon be
a fixture
on all the red carpets and all the right
shows
she said goodbye to her boyfriend wished
him well in literature
i'll think of you often she lied
with a trace of a tear
and she thanked jim mccray her midterm
theater arts teacher
laura's helping the furthering of her
career
and she struggles all day
revising her list of the things that
she'll do
when she makes it one day
when sue's part was cut
when she finally calmed down it was only
because she remembered
when you're only 180 billion
so she dated producers and agents
all through the scale
she played through wild parties and
nights
full of color and chrome
so they all knew her name her beauty and
that she was
easy and she
offered them what they did not get it oh
when susan turned 20 she was finally the
star of
a jerk
not quite what she'd hoped for but at
least well she was the star
and though no one at hollywood high has
yet seen that return
her classmates predict that she'll go
very hard
though mr mcrae is insane
he sees susan's picture
on a triple x website located
somewhere in belize
and for 9.95 and a valid
credit card number
he could view her successes all night
and as much as
and the same old apartment
and she's really blessed
and goes back to her list of the things
that she'll do
this year or the next
in her bachelor apartment she sits and
she struggles
all day
brave eyes and her list of things
well thank you very very much i think
they probably cut me off by now because
it is 8 31.
i'd like to thank everybody who showed
up you really
you really did make a difference this is
the sincere part of the show
i'd like to thank everybody who's out
there who may be watching
especially those of you in italia or
bangladesh
or england or other
strange places like new york and
nashville good night everybody
this is our town right here at the ali
building we still have a couple of weeks
left to this
wonderful occasion and despite the fact
that there is
a quarantine virus and natural
catastrophe going on
i think we're going to make it god bless
you all
thank you all for joining us good night
everybody be well
and have a wonderful weekend and be sure
to check out the ourtown.org
website festival is going on for another
two weeks until the end of the month
check it out lots more
live and virtual events have a wonderful
evening
thank you
