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embarrassed

Star Spangled Banner screw - up

"Oh say, can you see
by the dawn's earl..."
(oh, my gosh! the mic isn't working!)
"Oh say, can you see
by..."
(It shut off again!)
"Oh say, can you see
By the..."
(they're gonna make me sing in front
of the whole
Baseball team now!)
-
Shakily walking out
Scared to death of screwing up
I stop and look
Everyone is standing there on the foul lines
looking at ME!
-
(loudly)
-
"Oh say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
thru the parilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched"
-
(I think someone is laughing...)
-
"were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there."
-
(darn I hope my voice doesn't start cracking)
-
"Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave?"
-
(Hey! They're claping! They heard me! Yeay!)
-
--walking off the feild--
-
(hope the mic works next time)

Embarrassed

When you suddenly cry at school.
When you walk into the bathroom, and
see that someone is in there.
When you get sent to the principal's office.
When you suddenly get yelled at in public.
You miss your school bus, and are late
,and you walk into an assembly and have to
explain to the whole school why you are late.
Yet no one believes you.
How do you feel?
Sad? Happy?

Embarrassed

When you suddenly cry at school.
When you walk into the bathroom, and
see that someone is in there.
When you get sent to the principal's office.
When you suddenly get yelled at in public.
You miss your school bus, and are late
,and you walk into an assembly and have to
explain to the whole school why you are late.
Yet no one believes you.
How do you feel?
Sad? Happy?

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