[ti:Montage, Part 4: Gimme the Ball] [ar:A Chorus Line Ensemble] [al:A Chorus Line (New Broadway Cast Recording (2006))] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Montage, Part 4: Gimme the Ball - A Chorus Line Ensemble [00:00.04]Lyrics by:Edward L. Kleban [00:00.09]Composed by:Marvin Hamlisch [00:00.14]And it was the first time I'd ever seen a dead body [00:04.24]But then when I was fifteen the most terrible thing happened [00:07.34]The Ted Mack amateur hour held auditions in St Louis [00:10.43]And I didn't hear about it 'til after they'd gone [00:13.77]And I nearly killed myself [00:15.47]Nearly killed myself [00:16.75]I tried to walk in front of a speeding streetcar [00:19.72]And I remember noticing boys for the first time [00:23.83]Anyway I do remember practising kissing Leslie [00:27.46]Well she was my best girl-friend [00:29.16]Did any of you ever practice kissing with another girl [00:31.55]So that when the time came you'd know how to [00:35.29]No oh my God [00:38.35]Judy [00:39.13]Did you girl [00:40.39]Yeah but just a couple of times [00:43.17]Oh hell count me in [00:45.26]Thank God [00:46.55]Anyway I do remember [00:48.16]The worst thing in school was [00:50.00]Every time the teacher'd call on me [00:52.44]I'd be hard I'd be hard [00:55.71]Really I'd had to lean against the desk [00:58.40]Like this and the teacher would say [01:00.02]Stand up straight [01:01.44]I can't I have a pain in my side [01:04.01]Stand up straight [01:05.27]Or walking down the halls you'd have to walk like this [01:08.62]With all your books stacked up in front of you [01:11.93]Yeah I thought it was only me [01:13.36]I thought I was a sex maniac [01:15.53]You are [01:16.89]I did too I mean it didn't go down for three years [01:20.46]Oh and the bus [01:22.39]Oh the bus was the worst [01:24.15]I'd just look at a bus and [01:26.60]Bingo [01:28.81]And then there was the time [01:29.48]I was making out in the backseat with Sally Ketchum [01:33.22]We were necking and I was feeling her boobs [01:37.24]And feeling her boobs after about an hour or so she said [01:41.93]Ooh don't you wanna feel anything else [01:46.95]And I suddenly thought to myself [01:48.41]No I don't [01:50.74]Did that come as a surprise to you [01:53.26]Well I guess yeah [01:54.76]Probably the first time [01:55.36]I realized I was homosexual [01:57.85]And I got so depressed because [01:59.65]I thought being gay meant [02:01.59]Being an outcast the rest of my life [02:04.22]A bum and I said [02:06.61]Gee I'll never get to wear nice clothes [02:11.51]And I was so into clothes then [02:12.70]I had this fabulous pair of [02:14.37]Powder blue and pink gabardine pants [02:16.15]Goodbye twelve [02:16.85]Early to bed [02:17.57]Goodbye thirteen [02:18.84]Early to rise [02:19.47]Hello love [02:20.19]Your broad goes out with other guys [02:23.26]A diaphragm [02:24.92]A diaphragm [02:26.57]I stayed home [02:28.10]No that [02:29.02]S**t made it through high school without growing tits [02:31.94]Doubt [02:32.97]To break out [02:34.94]It's a mess [02:35.68]I can't get any of them [02:37.76]Why to the call [02:39.30]Why to the call [02:40.93]That 'em [02:42.25]What am I gonna say when he calls on me [02:48.49]My only adolescence [02:49.90]My only adolescence [02:51.56]My only adolescence [02:53.16]My only adolescence [02:54.69]Suddenly I'm seventeen and [02:56.27]Suddenly I'm seventeen and [02:57.85]Suddenly I'm seventeen and [02:59.50]Suddenly [03:00.34]There's a lot I am not [03:03.33]Certain of [03:06.90]Goodbye twelve goodbye thirteen [03:13.42]Hello [03:14.27]Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah [03:23.21]Wah wah wah wah [03:27.22]Oooohhhhhhhhhhh [03:40.09]Gimme the ball gimme the ball gimme the ball [03:42.49]Yeah [03:43.28]Gimme the ball gimme the ball gimme the ball [03:45.69]Yeah [03:46.19]I was always running around shouting [03:49.86]Gimme the ball gimme the ball gimme the ball [03:52.20]Yeah [03:52.74]I was so enthusiastic I was into everything [03:59.66]The yearbook was filled with my pictures [04:03.06]And I was lucky 'cause I got [04:07.22]A scholarship to college [04:10.34]A scholarship to college [04:12.58]So I went [04:13.50]So he went [04:14.10]Yes I went [04:15.14]Yes he went [04:16.20]So I'm gonna be this kindergarten teacher [04:20.03]Imagine me this kindergarten teacher [04:23.88]And I thought s**t [04:25.33]S**t Richie [04:26.27]S**t [04:27.01]S**t Richie [04:27.98]What are you gonna be [04:30.10]S**t Richie [04:31.32]When you get shoved outta here [04:34.52]Honey ain't nobody gonna be standing there [04:37.81]With no scholarship to life [04:40.32]And I was scared [04:41.71]S**t Richie [04:42.66]Scared [04:43.38]S**t Richie [04:44.56]Scared [04:45.06]S**t Richie [04:46.14]Scared [04:46.74]S**t Richie [04:47.86]My braces gone [04:49.41]My pimples gone [04:51.01]My childhood gone goodbye [04:53.98]Goodbye twelve goodbye thirteen [04:57.10]Goodbye fourteen goodbye fifteen [05:00.46]Goodbye sixteen goodbye seventeen [05:05.68]Hello love [05:10.12]Go to it go to it [05:13.30]Go to it go to it [05:16.28]And now life really begins [05:18.27]Go to it [05:19.41]And now life really begins [05:21.75]Go to it [05:22.78]And now life really begins [05:25.01]Go to it [05:26.11]And now life really begins [05:28.49]Go to it [05:30.49]Go to it