Prom Time!!

 

                                      

OOhh..  I know what you are thinking..  It's too late for prom!  What are you thinking?Well, I guess it is, a little too late, but I'm going to a Prom just the same!

I just got an email from the radio station that I listen to, and I and 3 other guests are invited to 1980's & 1990's themed prom, called :  Last Chance Prom!  Totally Awesome, I know--like, TOTALLY!  Whoohhooo!!!  Did you go to your high school prom?  Well, I didn't..and I don't think my hubby ever went to his either, so, hey...never say never, huh?! 

What should I wear?  I may have to go looking in that closet at my mom's house.  The closet underneath the stairs that hold all those old clothes of my youth.  Perhaps I can find that bright pink taffeta dress I wore when I dressed up as Cyndi Lauper that Halloween back in 1985?!  Or, may be I can find that black dress I bought so long ago with the neon yellow belt that I called my Thompson Twins dress...  If I get dressed up, that means that Rich is pretty much stuck in dressing up too..but, guys are easy.  I wonder if I can get him to wear black eyeliner?!  Ha ha ha..  Wish me luck. 

                         

The best thing about this is I get to look like a fool, and dance the night away with husband man.  Any excuse to get out of the house, huh?  I'll get to dance to Culture Club again...awww...  Plus, I don't even have to pretend to chit chat with the other people there, because they will be complete strangers!!  Yahooo!!!  I have two extra tickets, and I'm not sure who I want invite, if anyone.  I'll have to think about that.  I wish my best friend from high school lived closer.. :(  

P.S.  Well, I didn't win the Mexican cruise from that other radio station...  But, oh well, at least I won something, hey?

ARTIST: Julie Brown
TITLE: The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun
Lyrics  (I loved this record--my daughter enjoyed listening to it when she was a mere toddler.  Sadly, the record doesn't exist anymore, but it may be the reason why my daughter is so addicted to 80's music.


Hooooo - It was homecoming night at my high school
Hooooo - Everyone was there, it was totally cool
Hooooo - I was real excited, I almost wet my jeans
Hooooo - 'Cause my best friend Debbie was homecoming queen

She looked so pretty in pink chiffon, chiffon
Riding the float with her tiara on, tiara on
Holding this humongous bouquet in her hand, bouquet
She looked straight out of Disneyland

You know, like the Cinderella ride, I mean definitely an E ticket, E
 ticket
The crowd was cheering, everyone was stoked, was stoked
I mean it was like the whole school was totally coked or something
The band was playing Evergreen
And all of a sudden somebody screamed

Look out!  The homecoming queen's got a gun!

{Refrain}
Everybody run, the homecoming queen's got a gun
Everybody run, the homecoming queen has got a gun

Debbie's smiling and waving her gun
Picking off cheerleaders one by one
Oh Buffie's pompom just blew to bits
Oh no, Mitzie's head just did the splits
God, my best friend's on a shooting spree
Stop it, Debbie, you're embarrassing me
How could you do what you just did
Are you having a really bad period

{Refrain}

Stop Debbie, you're making a mess
Powder burns all over your dress

An hour later the cops arrived
By then the entire glee club had died, no big loss
You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop her
Tear gas, machine guns, even a chopper
"Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of the float"
Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said
She aimed and fired and now the math teacher's dead
Oh it's really sad but kind of a relief
I mean, we had this big test coming up next week

{Refrain}

Debbie's really having a blast
She's wasting half of the class

The cops fired a warning shot that blew her off the float
I tried to scream "duck" but it stuck in my throat
She hit the ground and did a flip, it was real acrobatic
But I was crying so hard I couldn't work my Instamatic
I ran down to Debbie, I had to find out
What made her do it, why'd she freak out
I saw the bullet had got her right in the ear
I knew then the end was near

So I ran down and I said, in her good ear, "Debbie, why'd you do it?" She raised her head, smiled, and said "I - I did it for Johnny." Johnny? Well like who's Johnny? Answer me, Debbie, who's Johnny? Does anybody here know Johnny? Are you Johnny? There was one guy named Johnny but he was a total geek, he always had food in his braces. Answer me, Debbie, who's Johnny? Oh God this is like that movie Citizen Kane you know where you later find out Rosebud was a sled? But we'll never know who Johnny was because like she's dead.

Everybody run, the homecoming queen's got a gun
Everybody run, the homecoming queen has got a
Everybody run
Everybody run, the homecoming queen has got a gun