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Retirement in The Villages, FL

Karaoke (Their Music & My Lyrics): Freezing , Freezing , Freezing

Why I moved to Texas, then retired to Florida — in song

Bill Myers

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Margarita Republic, The Villages. Photo by VL, 2018

Synopsis

  • I never did anything like that in my life — not even 5th grade! Like most people, I was terrorized. The stage was not scary as expected, once it was over.
  • Now, almost 3 years later and at age 75, I do something almost every week.
  • Margarita Republic changed management since the picture. We moved to City Fire and so did the karaoke manager. Usually, I get one song per night due to the number of singers.

Who would have thought

According to my niece, Karaoke in Chicago is mostly drunks singing in front of another bunch of drunks in a bar.

Not so in The Villages.

Nobody is drunk and there are seven Karaoke clubs.

I never did anything like that in my life — not even 5th grade! Like most people, I was terrorized.

My first song was “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by The Shirelles. Once you start, you don’t have time to think about anything else. I made it to the end…

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