Chapter 24. Last Performance.
Papa is obsessed with music. I wrote a new song today and he insisted I play it for the closing show for the theme park, and maybe even when it opens again in the summer. Well, guess now's my 15 minutes of fame.
After Momma finished doting on me, and a bit of a fright from Martha and Papa telling me what it means to 'break a leg', I got to go on stage and play the piano!
I played the piano and sang. "Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o, Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o, Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know, that you're going down the road to see a little girl—e-o? Bimbo is a little boy who's got a million friends, and every time he passes by, they all invite him in. He'll clap his hands and sing and dance, and talk his baby talk. With a hole in his pants and his knees a-sticking out, he's just big enough to walk. Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o, Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o, Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know, that you're going' down the road to see a little girl-e-o? Bimbo's got two big blue eyes that light up like a star, and the way to light them up is to buy him candy bars! Crackerjacks and bubblegum will start his day off right, all the girlies follow him just a-begging' him for a bite. Bimbo, Bimbo, candy on your face-e-o, Bimbo, Bimbo, chewing' on your gum-e-o. Bimbo, Bimbo, when you gonna grow? Everybody loves you, little baby Bimbo! You never catch him sitting' still, he's just the roving' kind, although' he's just a little boy, he's got a grownup mind! He always got a shaggy dog a-pulling' at his clothes, and everybody calls to him as down the street he goes! Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-e-o Bimbo, Bimbo, whatcha gonna do-e-o? Bimbo, Bimbo, does your mommy know that you're going' down the road to see a little girl-e-o?"
The crowd clapped for me and cheered and I ran off stage blushing.
"Oh Erica you were great!" Momma said.
"Like an angel." Papa said then held up his fingers a half inch apart and said. "That much more and the angels would be saying you sound like God."
I blushed and said. "I didn't get the high notes right."
"I taught your mother to sing, I could teach you to sing high notes."
He picked me up and spun me around. This was the best day of my life! Until a better day comes any way.
ha until a better day comes! sill Erica
and Eric's going to teach her to sing, goo idea or not?