MY PLEA

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MY PLEA
or
(Come to St. Louis Because I Can't Come to You)

If I should win the lottery
The Bee Gees I would go to see.
I'd travel to any distant land
To see and hear this marvelous band.
But since that's such a remote possibility
Then you'll just have to come to me.

Sooooo

When you tour the USA there is no doubt,
You must include St. Louis on your route.
The reason is quite clear as you will see.
SO SIT UP STRAIGHT
AND LISTEN TO ME!

First get a map of the USA,
The kind you get at the triple A.
Then get a compass from the Wal-Mart store,
The kind you've used in school before.

Place the point in St. Louis, Mo.
And the pencil put on old Chicago.
That's a mere six hour drive,
No need for an airplane to arrive.

Still with the point in old St. Lou
Draw a circle around, will you.
See all that luscious green and brown?
That's land. That's dirt. That's solid ground.
With PEOPLE living all around.

Next move your compass to New York City
And what you will see is not so pretty.
With the same distance on the scale
This audience test is sure to fail.

Circle your compass around just so
And into the Atlantic it will go.
No people there just water and FISH.
To be left alone is their only wish.

Next stick it in L.A. on the other coast.
Do you really want to be this host?
It doesn't take brains to be so wise.
You'll be singing to the SHARKS, you guys.

At last go to Miami, your USA homeland,
Where you wiggle your toes in the warm wet sand.
And in that warm sand place the pin,
And give the compass one last spin.

Around and around and around it will go
From the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico.
Filled with more FISH like DOLPHIN and MARLIN.
No one in that water to call you darlin'!

So if it is one of your deepest wishes
To try to sell tickets to all those FISHES,
And albums and posters and T-shirts too,
Then that is what you must do.

But if it is PEOPLE you care to treat,
Then a concert in St. Louis would be really neat.

So come on up to St. Louis MO
Where the ROBINS sing sweetly
And the wild BARRYS grow.
Where there will be PEOPLE
From the front row to the cheap seats,
With dancin' shoes upon their feets.

CLICK HERE FOR TWO MORE BEE GEES POEMS: A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW AND HE COULDA' BEEN A BEE GEE

Please visit the following site which was written with
love and devotion and is dedicated to my loving husband Dave.

ON EAGLES WINGS