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| Live recording, Mar. 23, 2007: | |
| Rehearsal version (saxes for voices): |
This is a number for a women's quartet. The voices are "played" by alto saxophones in the recordings to make the harmony and details easier to hear. For ease of learning the parts, the four chorus parts are available at:
| Oh, years a-go, it was a nice lit-tle strip,
Some stores and re-stau-rants, no-thing hip; We'd shop at Hecht's then go a-cross the street, To Rod-man's where we all would meet. Then last sum-mer our days turned to nights, When they yup-pi-fied our Friend-ship Heights. Doo Doo Doo Doo Friend-ship Heights. Doo-da doo-da doo-da doo-da Friend-ship Heights. With these high-priced stores it just is not the same, Choo and Gu-cci and Ralph Lau-ren we blame; The strip's gone posh with Ro-de-o Drive de-lights, They have yup-pi-fied our Friend-ship Heights. Friend-ship Heights, Oh, Friend-ship Heights, They've yup-pi-fied you, Friend-ship Heights, Sor-ry if we grouse. Friend-ship Heights, Oh, Friend-ship Heights, To shop there we would need A mort-gage on our house! Last year Saks Fifth A-ve-nue was the top of the line, Charles Schwartz and Son was cool, that was fine; But now hand-bags cost more than my net worth, And these ri-tzy shops are hell on Earth. All those gau-dy sa-les-girls in Ralph Lau-ren tights, Oh no, this is not my Friend-ship Heights. Doo Doo Doo Doo Friend-ship Heights. Doo-da doo-da doo-da doo-da Friend-ship Heights. (Oo) You have Brooks Bro-thers, And Maz-za Gal-le-rie, (Oo) Lord and Tay-lor and Nei-man Mar-cus, Plea- (Oo) Some-one please give us our last rites, They have yup-pi-fied our Friend-ship Heights. Friend-ship Heights, Oh, Friend-ship Heights, They've yup-pi-fied you, Friend-ship Heights, Your price tags have us stunned; Friend-ship Heights, Oh, Friend-ship Heights, To shop there we would need To raid the col-lege fund. Oh, years a-go, It was a nice lit-tle strip; (Oo) But then it got so dig-ni-fied, its pri-ces fine-(al)ly sig-ni-fied, We could not af-ford the trip. Where we shopped, we fine-(al)ly stopped, 'Cause they yup-pi-fied our Friend-ship Heights. Oo. |