Music - The Band
Written while watching my brother perform
in a high school band concert
Music can really be a little bit of fun
If you're in the left back, playing the drum
Or you might say, "take this and dump it"
If you're in the front, playing the trumpet
Obey the conductor and do what he tells
If you're way out front, playing the bells
Or if you have a conductor that likes to toot
You better watch out if you play the flute
Or you might say "throw that in a hair net"
If you're in the right middle, playing the clairnet
You might start feeling like you're on an ax
If you're behind the clarinets, playing the sax
Your lungs might start to hurt and you might say "uba"
If you're in the right back, playing that big tuba
Sometimes you might say "let's go home"
If you're in the back middle, playing the trombone
Or you might say "this is getting borin'"
If you're in the right middle, playing the french horn
You may never say "this is just like Rome"
If you're on the right side, playing the baritone
But we can't leave out the leader, no not at all
For he is the one who sweats most of all
Because without him the band wouldn't be too tall
In fact without him the band would just fall, fall, fall
Written in May, 1972
By Cory Carrier
(written while at a performance by the band that
my brother was playing the clarinet in)
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