Billy Boy?

Okay, I might be having too much fun with this... :) Oh well. :)

Our family was doing chores after supper today. Usually that involves some singing. :shock: What? You mean in like the musicals?! Well, sort of, only we don't usually sing about what we're doing. We just sing while we're doing. So, anyhow. On this particular day, my younger sister started to sing, "O-oh where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy? O-oh where have you been, charming Billy..." She continues the song, where he says he found a sweetheart, but she's too young and can't leave her mother. Finally she comes to, "Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy? Can she bake a chili pie, Charming Billy?"

Mom interjects, "Cherry pie".

My sister says, "That's what I said."

I chime in, laughing a bit, "I heard 'chili', too."

My sister laughs and proceeds to sing it again to satisfy us. Only this time it comes out wrong, too. After three or four attempts and many giggles while she stands in the open refrigerator door, totally unconscious of doing so, she tries again with gusto, "Can she bake a CHERRY pie, Chili boy--" She stops singing at our stares, then realizes her mistake and we all burst out laughing. Suddenly, I notice she has been standing with the refrigerator door open the whole time, and I stop laughing long enough to ask almost teasingly, "Why are you standing with the refrigerator door open?" That does us in again as she shuts it with a bewhildered look, "I have no idea!" Of course with more giggles.

The moral of the story? Never think about what you don't want to say, or you WILL say it! Or else it is: Don't sing while standing at the open refrigerator... it freezes your brain and you sing the wrong words.

Have a great day... and don't think about chili when you sing Billy Boy. ;)

~ Ashley/Zaya