When I was a kid
I wanted to learn how
to play the piano,
but my parents couldn’t
afford to buy me a
a whole piano,
but they did get me the
piano stool.
So, mostly,
I practiced my posture.
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But you know what?
I was good.
part II
And some-times, as I
would sit there on the piano stool,
I would dream of going
living in the 1920s.
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If I could only go back in time,
then I could fulfill my destiny
of becoming a
tin-pan alley songwriter.”
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And if I was lucky, and
I worked hard at my craft,
maybe I could get the
great Rudy Vallee
to sing my new hit song,
“Strawberry Fields Forever”