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.
***
And you know what?
I got good.
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Tag: music
Trefology proudly presents its 600th post! (big deal!)
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“In a Photograph”
Written & performed
by
George J. Raymond
Copyright © 2019 all rights reserved
I love to see
you smile,
love to hear you laugh,
I’ve got one
of those
in a photograph
***
And, I love to hear you sleep,
love to watch
you dream,
I got both of those
in my memories
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If you could
feel what I feel
when I see you,
heart starts pounding
chills go flying
through me …
One must fight the urge
Among
banana-boat workers,
it’s probably
a rookie error
to randomly yell out,
‘Day-O!’
… And the banana-boat worker
who continually says, “Day-O”,
may one day discover in their lunch pale,
the deadly black tarantula.
In a blue mood
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My Blue Blue Girl
written & performed by George J. Raymond
copyright © 2018 all rights reserved
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Every-time I look at you
My blue blue girl
Hair of brown & eyes of brown
What a blue blue girl
***
What did I do
(my baby)
to make you so blue?
(my baby my blue)
My blue blue girl
***
Every-time i take you out
My blue blue girl
all you do is sit and pout
My blue blue girl
***
What did I do
(my baby)
to make you so blue?
(my baby my blue)
My blue blue girl
***
I lay awake at night
wondering why you’re
so blue
and I
just don’t know what to do
Oh me.
I love you
Circumstances being different
Every day
I read a page
from my
Book of
Positive Tuba Affirmations.
***
“You are the greatest
tuba player ever.”
I repeat to myself.
“No one plays the tuba like you.”
***
Some days, though,
I don’t know why
I waste my time.
***
I don’t play the tuba,
& reading it
just makes me sad about
what I might have been.
Zander Klaus wie bist du?
Our founder waited for Zander, klaus — but Zander, klaus did not show
& A Blithesome Trefmas To Some of You!
Specialities of the past
IF
Typhoid Mary
could be said
to have had a
specialty in the kitchen,
I suppose
it would
have to be typhoid
Lucille on the Sand Part II
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“Since The Light Went Out”
written & performed by George J. Raymond
Copyright © 2016 all rights reserved
3.
The light went out
Just burned itself out.
The world is not as bright
since the light went out
***
It flickered for while,
still it made her smile
Then our world went dark
when the light went out
***
I had a thought
I never thought before
I know I’ll never be
alone
***
Photographs and memories
trinkets left behind …
***
Life as free as a
summer breeze
we had so many good times.
She served it with a grin
“Talking ‘Bout Spam”
written & performed by George J. Raymond
Copyright© 2016 all rights reserved
Come in little cans
had a lot of fans
in the army infantry
***
Some people hate
but a lot of kids ate it
growing up near Waikiki
***
Mama said,
“It’s good for you”
She would serve it with a grin
And it’s not surprising
after eating it all our life,
to be in the shape were in
***
Comes in a can
kind of tastes like ham
you don’t want to see
it made
***
We ate a lot of it
and started to love it
fried up with
rice and egg
***
It was quite a feat squeezing
Hawaiian steak
into that little tin
since i left home
sure miss mom
but i don’t miss the indigestion
***
Talking about Spam …
***
Slice, dice it, fry it up
and spice it
It made me what I am
***
Spam, Spam, Spam
***
When I go back
to look up my old friends
in Honolulu
We pops some beers
and eat a lot of
Spamalulu stew
***
Mama said …
***
Talkin’ ’bout Spam …
Take me out of the game, coach!
When I was young
I thought I could change the world
with my little songs.
I was wrong.
Or, I assume I would have been
had I written some.
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