The summer between my junior and senior years of high school, I was lucky enough to get to be a part of Oklahoma's 2011 Youth Tour group, and so got to take an all-expenses-paid trip for a week to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. It was awesome. And so as soon as I got back I immediately wrote up a musical recap to the tune of Brad Paisley's "Welcome To The Future".
Verse One -
When this thing started,
We didn't know anybody
We just knew that we could write
And that led us to D.C.
By the time that we got home
Due to such close proximity,
Spike Mama and the rest
Had turned us into a family....
Chorus One -
Hey........
Glory glory, hallelujah
Welcome to the future...
Verse Two -
We got griped at
By that guy in the hotel
But hey, at least we got
Some great stories we can tell
And yeah, there were those two who got lost
But they got back, it ended well
We saw Arlington
Walked around Mount Vernon
Saw a ton of things at the Newseum
We even went to the Smithsonians...
Chorus Two -
Hey........
Every day there's something new
Welcome to the future
Verse Three -
If you think about it
If you could, would you trade
All the crazy and the weird things
Like escaping gay parades?
Despite sky-high prices
And escalators galore
I'd sign up in a heartbeat
If I could go back for more...
Chorus Three -
Hey......
We need to plan us a reunion
Somewhere in the future
Hey....
Thank you, OAEC
For all the memories....
Hey.....
Go ahead, bring on the future....
