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This song also published by The Royal Conservatory Voice Repertoire 2025 Edition, Level 10
Text: Poem by Maureen Tolman Flannery
Be for teens.
Remember how it was.
If you hear me you may “be one.”
Recall how wildly we play the cards we’ve got.
Many things we must do and many we should not.
You can’t always count on the free square.
“I eighteen. Gee, Sexy too.”
My grandma lives alone.
The two of us take her to Bingo.
Across the cards our eyes play numbers games.
We nearly blackout, it always feels the same,
someone else always makes it before us.
“In twenty eight?”
Life’s a gamble. Life’s a dance.
Life will beckon with a sidelong glance
Life’s a tango with the lord of chance.
“Be Mine!”
my pretty girl friend’s asked me. Yet, we dare not trust our luck.
As we drive Grandma the long way to the farm
the moon’s a purple dauber circling with its charm,
but you can’t always count on the free square.
“I eighteen. Oh, sex before! I ache for thee too.”
Bingo!
