What a Trip
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This is a true story of a time when I was in my younger years. I had moved out to California with a buddy of mine. To make a long story short, we had met some people that we became pretty close to while we spent a year there away from our homes in New Jersey. We were the adventurous type of kids as we did a lot of hitch-hiking all over the place. When we came back from California we decided to go camping and to hitch a ride up to the mountains in Pennsylvania which was a few hours away from where we lived. We were thumbing on this back street that had very little traffic and someone passed us by in a Winnebago. Shortly after passing us they did a u-turn and came back to pick us up and to give us a ride. Well, it turns out that the people who picked us up were actually two of the performers in the play that we worked at in California. It's a 3000 mile journey from N.J. to Ca. So it was a trip to see these people. They actually were heading back to California because they had just came back from New York where they were married. Unfortunately for us, they couldn't give us a ride because they were heading west and we were heading east. But it was great to see them. I have never seen them again.
I left my home when I was twenty one
And I left my folks behind
A friend and I left for the west
To see what we could find
I found a job working the spotlights
In this well-known musical play
Way out in California
Three thousand miles away
My friend Mark was in the show
Because he sang very well
I tried to sing but I was awful
And gees, everyone could tell
We knew the cast very well
And we knew all their names
The two of whom we knew the best
Were Mary-Lou and James
When the show stopped playing and it was over
Mark and I went back home
I wanted to tell this unbelievable story
So I wrote this little poem
When we got back to New Jersey
Hitch hiking we would go
Someone saw us with our thumbs
And drove up to us slow
They drove a Winnebago
With "Just Married" on the back
When they opened the door to let us in
We nearly had a heart attack
You won't believe who picked us up
Two people whom we knew
It was two singers from the cast
It was James and Mary-Lou
Copyright © Charles Messina | Year Posted 2018
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