Spelling Bee
The lyric and chords appear below. First, though, let me say that in the middle of the night after I posted this video on YouTube, I woke and thought, "Stupid me, I spelled Glamour wrong.
I'm talking about the part where I lean forward and the camera gets an unflattering shot of my bald head. I had written a subtitle that appears on the screen saying, "Glamour Shots by Deb," except I wrote glamour "Glamor."
Since the song is about spelling, I wanted to correct this, which is not easy to do on YouTube. I got up and set to work.
I had to delete the YouTUbe video I had uploaded, edit the version on my computer, re-render it, then upload the video again -- a not-quick process.
The upload seemed to take forever. Turns out, YouTUbe was doing some maintenance at the time, which slowed down an already slow procedure.
When the video finally was ready, it appeared in letter box. Not what I wanted.
I went back to bed and decided to tackle the problem in the morning.
At six in the a.m. I was back at it. I re-re-rendered, re-re-uploaded, and re-re-waited for the upload to be ready.
Still letter box. Grrrr. I decided to leave it.
I told you all that so I can tell you this:
My wife just pointed out to me that I misspelled "actual" in the closing credits.
I ain't fixin' it.
Here's the lyric:
I could not spell beautiful
Though gallantly I tried.
B-u. B-o-u. B-u-o
I nearly died.
Everyone was laughing,
My humiliation complete.
And I thought to myself
As I grimly took my seat,
"Maybe spelling beautiful
Is not something I can do,
But I know it when I see it.
And I glanced at Peggy Sue.
Yeah, I know it when I see it.
And I glanced at Peggy Sue."
Chords:
D
D
A
A
Bmi
A
Bmi
A
D
D
A
A D
A
A D
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