This is a great little song about cell phones. Each verse uses a different classical music melody that is used for cell phone ringers.
I saw her perform it for the second time. She had performed it the night before, and had just written a new verse for it. In fact, I visited her in her dressing room as she was working it out.
The first melody is the one that was on Cheryl's cell phone when she wrote this song. It is Mozart's First Movement of the Symphony # 40 in G minor. Here is a live version from YouTube.
- It's the Phone
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- It's the phone, get the phone, there's a phone call
- Fish it out, press the talk button right now
- Anytime, anywhere there's a phone call
- We will answer and start talking real loud
- In their odes to Joy and Jesus, do you think they once foresaw
- their pieces in our wireless devices
- All across the planet? Blah blah, blah blah, blah…
- Ah the strains of music all around
- Short little beeps cut through the din
- I've come to love that Motorola sound
- Not harpsichord or violin
- I know Ludwig would be so proud
- That "Fur Elise" could beep so loud
- Rossini too and Brahms and Bach
- And Mozart and Rachmaninoff inoff, enough
- Hold the fries- keep your eyes on the road somehow
- Pretty awkward to talk on the phone right now
- To the whims if the Cell Tower Gods I bow
- And I hope the local laws allow
- It's so crowded, you're so loud it's some deaf guy you're talking to
- All of us on this Hertz bus attempt to turn our backs to you
- You're impinging, see us cringing, dirty looks aimed at your head
- Not proud of it but I admit I wish your battery was dead
- (P) December 3, 2001
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