Pretty City Chic
Dearest friends and fans,
Please note:
This tongue-in-cheek song I wrote
Is half-finished so I don’t gloat,
But pray my poem won’t get your goat;
It’s late — blog’s due “mañana;”
Check the song later on … uh …
You’ll find it’s been “re-wrote”…
“Needs work” is my last quote.
But please enjoy what I wrote;
Now I humorously emote:
Pretty City Chic
Hey! I’m a Hack
Who’s written this hit
Called “Pretty City Chic”–
A Hee-ha Comedy Song —
A bit o’ Bio in Verse,
For Better or Worse,
With Truth ‘n’ Exaggeration
Interspersed:
Hey, they’ve called me “Pretty City Chic,”
But Hillbilly music is my shtick;
My Hillbilly ways are here to stick,
So you may as well git over it —
Join in ’n’ sing a bit
With “City Chic” —
Born in Mexican sticks in 1966.
I’ve dual citizenship — What a trip!
Now Shit-kickin’ music is my shtick.
I’m an all-American-mongrel,
Apple-pie girl —
A Hines-57 mixed-up mutt
With apple pie stickin’ to my butt ’n’ gut —
But Red-necked reactionaries ain’t my thing;
I’m here fer music and to sing!
Yeah, I’m an All-American-Mexican,
Scots-Irish “Mick,”
With Welch ’n’ English,
So, sure, I’m a Brit …
With French, German,
Mohawk Indian a bit.
If there’s no Tom Slick
Hidin’ in the pit,
Far as I know, that’s about it —
That‘s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
My father was a proud Veteran of World War I.
Those Vets were well-appreciated
For what they’d done!
Pa was an artist, creative —
Jack-of-all-trades;
Master of a few —
Good at many things —
What couldn’t he do?
Ma was a Creative —
Artist thru ’n’ thru;
Poet, Pianist, Painter — Whew!
Loved talking religion, old or new —
Long as it agreed with what she already “knew.”
She graduated with a BA in Journalism too;
Quite an accomplishment — Ma was sixty-two!
She was runnin’ me competition then,
For I was still in College too.
But her motto was:
“Anything you can do,
I can do better;
I can do anything better than you!”
(And she meant it too!)
Refrain:
Hey, they call me “Pretty City Chic,”
But Hillbilly music is my “shtick,”
My Hillbilly ways are here to stick!
So you may as well “git” over it;
Join in ‘n’ sing a bit
With “City Chic,”
‘Shit-kickin’ music is my shtick.
Well, that’s my story
And I’m “shtickin’ ” to it:
“I’m Pretty City Chic!”
(By Stephany Spencer)
NOTE: The following is an iPhone video of me at the California Writers Club, March 2017, performing the above song I wrote, “Pretty City Chic” (before I recently “re-writ” parts of it!):
