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Lost My Heart to a Cake Bet.mp3

[Verse 1]

If I think hard, I think it was a summer day

Way back yonder near towards the end of May

I had a couple a friends up near my way

On a rooftop party, was a windy Saturday

I made up the table and set out the snacks

I had information, elevation of Richmond’s highest facts

The noisy rooftop crowd started getting real loud

So I raised my glass to a toast to calm ‘em down

[Pre-Chorus]

I said here ye’ here ye’, raise up yer glasses and hear me

I’ve got a brand new toast and I don’t mean to boast

But this is my history prize, and yer about to see why

We raised our glasses and toasted to the sky

[Chorus]

See, I bet you and you bet me

I know way more about the River City

So here’s a toast and the winner can boast

They’ll be the king for sure, and it’s gonna be me

[Verse 2]

Now, the crowd was laughing and they were sure

I’d make a fool of myself and eat my words real good

But I can tell you a thing or two I know

Take this little ditty, a piece a hist’ry gold

Did you know, and a lot of people don’t

That the foundry by the river use to burn with coal

Rhys Davies was a Welshman, and lemme tell ya folks

What he built then later became Tredegar Iron Works

Everybody knows that and don’t call me a fool

Stepped up a young lady who was sitting on a stool

Yer, just a chump and ya seem real lost

Did you know, Landmark, useda be called the Mosque?

[Chorus]

See, I bet you and you bet me

I know way more about the River City

So here’s a toast and the winner can boast

They’ll be the king for sure, and it’s gonna be me

[Verse 3]

Oh that one’s to easy, and don’t try to sway me

I got more Richmond knowledge the Wilder’s granbaby

Mosque is chump change, and but here’s a fact

Short pump used to be a field, where the mall is sat.

Out jumped another man, a glass a wine in his hand

He said, short pump’s for sissys, but did ya know the real meaning

Of three chopt road, that cuts across all lanes?

It was named for the 3 marks in a trees by our Indian friends

Now out from the crowd arose a young lady

Wore a fancy dress and approached me bravely

She said I got one that’s gonna make yer head spin

And I doubt, you know this, so I know I’m gonna win

Did you know, and a lot of people don’t

The sunken mall in byrd park it looks like a moat

But it wasn’t a moat, and they was gonna try to fill it

But they ran outta money, and the pool they never built it

[Chorus]

See, I bet you and you bet me

I know way more about the River City

So here’s a toast and the winner can boast

They’ll be the king for sure, and it’s gonna be me

[Verse 4]

Well here was my chance and I ain’t one for romance

But I knew I loved this city, it’s where my heart belongs

So I raised my glass high and yelled to the top of my lungs

This next fact, is a counterattack, I’ll bet a cake on this one

I’m bout to knock your sox off with this fun fax face off

Let’s track it back to the fact you said, I’m gonna win it all

Everybody knows them gardens was supposed to be a pool,

Did you know the Carillon used to be a civil war hospital?

[Bridge]

And what happened next I’m trying to blot from my mind

I had no idea there was an app for the times

A serious fact checker hushed the crowd with what he said

“Actually, it was a memorial for the World War 1 dead”

So I toasted the girl, and the girl won.

It was all too much for me being scene one

Now I lost the city, my heart was RVA

Lost it all to a fax cake bet I made

[Chorus]

See, I bet you and you bet me

I know way more about the River City

So here’s a toast and the winner can boast

They’ll be the king for sure, and it’s gonna be me