I just checked the forum and there's a faculty coffeehouse coming up. Let's perform something because we're feeling musically inclined today and our impromptu ukulele jam sessions just won't do anymore.
You came over with your ukulele but we couldn't even get through the first line "Alabama, Arkansas, I do love my Ma and Pa" of Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros because I was laughing too hard. We couldn't even get through Tears in Heaven because we were each playing along to different tunes in our heads. We called it a night and you tried to convince me that maybe we just couldn't do this.
But you had to buy an acquaintance groceries (kitty litter and bread) and had time to kill on a Friday evening and I needed to not think about professional school for a night and so we brought our instruments to the coffee shop halfway between our houses. We tried Gabriela y Rodriguez, but their skill level was beyond us, so we ordered pizza and wings instead, with a can of ginger ale and a can of coke. We tried Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World, Colbie Caillat & Jason Mraz's Lucky, and Home.
I laughed at how "you put the flower in my hair" and the way you sang the word "ocean". You still weren't convinced that we could do this and that this jam session was just to cheer me up.
But you came over the day before the performance and realized that it was okay if we screwed up because it was just a student performance, and students are forgiving. We practiced with the sheets of lyrics spread out on the floor, testing our vision to see if two nervous people with poor eyesight could read this tomorrow onstage.
We didn't sound like Jason Mraz or Colbie Caillat, but we sure did sound like ourselves, and we sure had a lot of laughs on and offstage.
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