"I left Garden City, Kansas, with a ticket, and a yen
to see New York.
I typed eighty words a minute, so your corporation
let me go to work.
I fetch paper clips and coffee, even help you dodge
your domineering wife.
Mr. Walker, it's all over, I don't like the New York
secretary's life."
--"Mr. Walker, It's All Over," by Billie Jo Spears,
1969
Girls, remember the scene right before the pivotal Christmas sequence,
in John Waters' "Female Trouble???????" The Davenports are cheerfully gathered under the tree in their
night clothes, and Mrs. Davenport cheerfully chirps, upstairs, "Dawn! Come see what Santa brought."
Then we cut to a shot of Dawn, in green baby doll pajamas, getting
out of bed. Rollers and toilet paper are wrapped around her head, which she undoes, saying,
"Christ, I'm coming." and, of course, muttering about how she better get those Cha-Cha Heels!!!!!!!!
By mid-week, girls, when the alarm goes off, this is how I feel. "Christ, I'm coming!" Then we get to the office, and have to exchange comfy shoes for heels. Girls need freedom, darlings.
You know what heels do to my feet? It's like I have been dancing en pointe for the past twenty years! At least I'd have something to show for, had that been the case!
So, when I get this way, I think about, and sing, Billie Jo Spears'
1969 hit, "Mr. Walker, It's All Over." I have been singing it a lot lately, which indicates I am getting pretty fed up with the Mr. Walkers in my life! And would love to sing that song to them! Which I will do someday, looking like Angela Cartwright during her "Sound Of Music" period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember girls, it might be over for Mr. Walker, but it sure isn't over, for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment