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Beach script (PIANO) GK: It's midsummer day weekend, the longest day of the year, a good thing,
light being the source of all life and so forth, but it's also a time
when you yourself are more visible and more of you is visible, so when
I was your age, young and sensitive, I spent a good deal of summer in
my room. HGQ IN MY ROOM: VERSE & CHORUS GK: I was sitting in the front seat of a car with my dream woman Wanda
Johnson at a beach in Minneapolis. She was wearing a two-piece bathing
suit. We were waiting for somebody named James Sweezix. SS: I wish he would get here. I don't want to sit around in a
parking lot half the night. GK: I would have been thrilled to sit in the parking lot all night. I
thought about putting my arm across the back of the seat but I wasn't
sure how she felt. SS: You sure are quiet tonight. Cat get your tongue or what? GK: Just thinking. Hard to believe our high school years are over. SS: Yeah. Well, we'll always have the memories. GK: Well, I know I will. I hope we keep in touch. I mean, you and me.
If you want to. SS: I wonder if he could be waiting at my house. HGQ: IN MY ROOM VERSE SS: Where are you going to college? GK: The U, I guess. SS: My dad wanted me to go to St. Olaf so ---- that's where I'm
going. GK: Well, that's not far. I could come down and see you. Sometime. If
you want to. Just to talk and---- SS: What are you going to major in? GK: I donno. That's a nice swimsuit you have. It looks nice on you. SS: It's called a playsuit, actually. It's recreational wear. GK: It looks good. SS: It's kind of small. GK: Small looks good on you. HGQ IN MY ROOM BRIDGE SS: Are you going to Patty's party? GK: Patty Peterson? SS: Yes. GK: Tonight? SS: Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. GK: So that's where everyone went? SS: I guess---- GK: So you and James----You were planning to ---- SS: Yeah. Sorry. GK: Oh, that's all right. SS: I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you came. GK: No. I should be---- I've got a lot of things to do-----And then James
came. TR: Hey. GK: A man of few words, James. TR: Hey. GK: And he squeezed in next to her and she scootched over and he put
his arm around her shoulder and she snuggled right up to him. SS: He's going to drop us at Patty's party. TR: Cool. SS: I'm so excited. Everyone's going to be there. TR: Cool. GK: So that's what I think of on a hot summer day. Looking out the windshield
at the beach and people lying on blankets together, all the young people
except me. HQA: UNDER THE BOARDWALK VERSE GK: She went to St. Olaf and I never saw her until our 40th high school
reunion and looking at her made me feel weird. SS: Hey, you look good. GK: So do you. SS: Forty years. Hard to believe. GK: It is. SS: Lemme buy you a drink. GK: Sure. Later. SS: Okay. See you in there. GK: That was two years ago, and the memory of that Wanda in the muu-muu
and the jangly bracelets has faded. It's not as strong as the memory of
the Wanda in the two-piece, her bare leg brushing against my bare leg
in the front seat of that car----- HGQ: UNDER THE BOARDWALK VERSE AND CHORUS GK: I keep going back to that night, the radio playing, her bare leg,
the beach, and I imagine James Sweezick saying---- TR: Well, I gotta go. You two have a great time. GK: Sometimes he says that, sometimes he says----- TR: Today I started to really feel that I have a vocation to become
a monk. GK: Sometimes she says---- SS: I'll see you around, James ---- Carson and I are going over
to my house. GK: Sometimes he's not even there and she says to me---- SS: Let's go to my house. We can dance on the patio. GK: In the dark? SS: Of course. HGQ REFRAIN: And we'll have fun fun fun til our daddy takes the
T-bird away. SS: We'll dance. On the patio. HGQ REFRAIN: And we'll have fun fun fun til our daddy takes the
T-bird away. SS: Maybe we could go swimming. HGQ REFRAIN: And we'll have fun fun fun til our daddy takes the
T-bird away. SS: And afterward, we can lie on a blanket. HGQ REFRAIN: And we'll have fun fun fun til our daddy takes the
T-bird away. SS: We can stay up late. There's no school tomorrow. Remember? HGQ REFRAIN: And we'll have fun fun fun til our daddy takes the
T-bird away. | | | | |
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