Anchored Down
By Missy

(Yup, my first try at a little L&S Filk; I fear I left too much of the original song in, but it just sorta works for L&S. More proof that I'm horrible at these and it feels too much of just a copycat for me, but here's your challenge answer, FG; not the final version until it's betaed).

(Original Song W. By Michelle Shocked; Sounds of Polygram international, Inc (BMI), called "Anchorage", used without permission, from the albums Arkansas Traveller and Mercury Pose)

(Sung by Shirley "about" Laverne)

I took time out to write to my old friend
I walked across that burning bridge
I mailed my letter off to California
But the reply came from Collar Ridge

She Said, "Hey, Shirl, it's about time you wrote,
It's been over five years you know my old friend
Take me back to the days of the all-night dates
And dancing, running, rock-n-rolling,
Hey, Shirl, we was wild then.

CHORUS:
Hey, Shirl, you know it's kind of Funny
Milwaukee always seemed so big, but
You know you're in the largest state in the Union when you're tied down in
Collar Ridge

Hey Girl, the last time I saw you
I think it was on me and Lenny's wedding day
What was the name of that love song you and Carmine sang?
I don't recall how it goes
I don't recall quite how it goes...

(CHORUS)

Lenny got a better job, so we moved
Little Andrew Frank just lost a tooth and he's starting school
I've got a brand new eight-month-old baby girl
Heh, I sound like a housewife,
Hey, Shirl, I think I'm a housewife.

Hey, Shirl, what's it like to live in New York
New York, the big Apple, imagine that.
What's it like to be the mamma to a skate-board punk rocker?

Lenny says send a picture
Squiggy says hell-o.
Carmine wrote, "Keep on going, Shirl."
Oh, keep on going, Shirl.

(CHORUS)











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