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Thread #89440   Message #2719619
Posted By: GUEST,Frug
09-Sep-09 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: I shouldn't have done that...onstage embarrassment
Subject: RE: I shouldn't have done that...onstage embarrassment
Way back we were performing at a school charity event and had been asked to allow a floor spot to a pupil of the school the youngest daughter of a well respected local man. The lass was about 13 at the time and had heard us perform on a number of occasions and asked if we would accompany her on Guthrie's Deportees. Trouble was she froze after the first line and so I knelt down and prompted her for the whole of the song. Naturally she got an ovation from the audience (many of whom were priests and nuns) who realised what was happening. When she had left the stage we decide to recover the set with a few upbeat numbers and in introducing the medley I inadvertently parodied an old John Lennon gaff." Please join in if you know the words, if you don't shake whatevers hanging loose or just rattle your rosary beads"