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| Style/genre: | Musical comedy |
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| Background: | This comedy song was written to fit a momen in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, but music was never completed. It may be, one of these days. |
| Singer(s): | Lenny, who is having a very, very bad day -- on her birthday, |
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The song lets us in on one end of a phone conversation between a very distraught Lenny and her sister-in-law, Lucille. The situation is as follows: Just about everything bad has happened to Lenny today. Her brother-in-law, Zack, has been shot by an ex-lover, and her sister Babe (Zack's wife) is up in arms; her beloved horse Billy Boy was struck by lightning; various family members are on their last legs; and to top it off, everyone has forgotten her birthday. Yet, somehow, she has held it all together. Sitting along in the kitchen, she lights a candle stuck in a cupcake and sings the Happy Birthday song to herself several times, blowing the candle out and making a new wish each time. Then the phone rings: Zack's sister, Lucille, is calling from the hospital. Her song is alternately spoken and sung as she gets progressively closer to tears. |