{"id":853,"date":"2015-08-22T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=853"},"modified":"2015-08-27T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T11:51:12","slug":"lines-written-for-gene-kelly-to-dance-to","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/lines-written-for-gene-kelly-to-dance-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to\u00a0(1999)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for\u00a0soprano and piano [6:00]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 60px; margin-right: 60px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchristophertrapani%2Flines-written-for-gene-kelly-to-dance-to&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Spring is when the grass turns green and glad<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Spring is when the new grass comes up and says hey, hey, hey, hey.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Be dizzy now and turn your head upside down and see how the world looks upside down<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Be dizzy now and turn a cartwheel and see the good earth through a cartwheel.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tell your feet the alphabet<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tell your feet the multiplication table<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tell your feet where to go, and watch \u2018em go and come back<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance a question mark?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance an exclamation mark?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance a couple of commas?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And bring it to a finish with a period?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance like the wind is pushing you?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance like you are pushing the wind?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Can you dance like slow wooden heels??<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And then change to bright and singing silver heels.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Such nice feet, such good feet.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">So lazy as grass grows and rivers run<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Silver lakes like blue porcelain plates<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And snakes of winding rivers<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">You can see \u2018em on a map.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Why we got geography?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Because we go from place to place, because the earth used to be flat and had four corners, and you could jump off from any of the corners.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">But now the earth is not flat any more.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Now it is round all over. Now it is a globe, a ball, round all over, and we would all fall off it and tumble away into space if it wasn\u2019t for the magnetic Poles. And when you dance it is the North Pole or the South Pole pulling on your feet like magnets to keep your feet on the earth.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And that\u2019s why we got geography.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And it\u2019s nice to have it that way.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Why does duh Mississippi River wind and wind?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Why, dat\u2019s easy. She wind so she git where she wanna go.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Mississippi, Rappahannock, Punxatawney.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Spell out their names with your heels.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Where duh towns uh Punkatawney and Mauk Chunk?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Why, yeanh day\u2019s bof in Pennsylvan-ee-eye-ay.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And dat\u2019s why we git geography.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Left foot, tweedle-dum \u2013 right foot tweedle-dee, here they go.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">When Yankee Doodle came to town, wat wuz he a ridin\u2019 on?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A buffalo? A elephant? A horse?<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">No, no, no, no. A Pony it wuz, a Pony. That\u2019s right.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Giddi-ap, Giddi-ap, Giddi-ap.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Whoa! 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