Congrats to my sister, whose book with Hazel Hutchins, "Sidewalk Rescue, has been nominated for the 2005 Blue Spruce Award!
So I was going through some old lyric sheets and came across a song that I wrote several years ago, taught Allison & Jodi, but we never got around to performing in public; we didn't get out to many conventions as a trio that year, and all forgot about it after that. It's too late to resurrect, so I'm posting it here before it sinks into its final obscurity. Be warned that it's one of my songs in which the scansion is likely baffling until you hear how it fits with the music (which you won't, so you'll have to suffer, sorry):
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DOT COM SURVIVOR
Copyright ©2001 Debbie Ridpath Ohi
(Begins slowly, like Gregorian chant)
Back in the stone age days of the World Wide Web
I made a Web site using a plain text editor and
not one of those fancy WYSIWYG ("whizzy-whig") editing programs which didn't exist back then anyway.
Those were the golden days, my friend, in our
innocence we thought they'd never end
In '95, Netscape's IPO news did amaze
Wall Street paid attention, so began the dot-com craze....
(faster, Allison sings lead)
Babe I can't talk now, I've got a meeting in the boardroom, it's a
P2P with a big-shot VC, hope he's got some cash...
We'll make a splash.
Jodi & Debbie counterpoint:
(Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...)
(Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?...)
When he signs the papers, I jump up and make a phonecall, I say
"Hello Mom, I've just sold my dot-com!"
And I heard her shout, "Oh baby!!
She's moving out!"
(Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...)
(Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?...)
BRIDGE:
The CEO said, "Going forward keeps us in the game,"
I asked, "What does that mean?"
He smiled and then explained...
(spoken, gradually getting faster)
"First maximize your market share with cash and some astrology, a
second round of funding and an open source technology then
strategize a turnkey paradigm, maximize your stocks, you've got to
euphemize your merchandise and THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!"
(Dot com survivor...dot com survivor...)
(Where is my IPO? Where is my IPO?)
BRIDGE #2:
But then things started to go wrong, In-
vestors dropped like flies, it was more de-
pressing than the end of Wrath of Khan
(Jodi & Debbie echo-sing: dot going, dot gone)
They sold the contents of my office in an e-Bay auction, but I
was so out of shape, I didn't even exercise my options.
JODI:
I'm going home, I'm going home
I'm going home, going home
Can't believe I'm really going home.
ALLISON (counterpoint):
I'm going home, I'm going home
Can't believe I'm really going home
Really going home.
DEBBIE (counterpoint):
I'm going home, I'm going
I'm going home, really going
home.
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