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May 2nd, 2010 | 
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Lost My Heart to a Cake Bet
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
Raise the Roof Marko!
[yelling rapper voice]
Listen up RVA!
We got a new kid in town
this studio busker, history hustler
starbucks guzzler’s bout to draw a crowd . . .
[verse 1]
He came to drop bombs, he came to write songs
Ya wanna rock a rooftop, call schairbaum
I know he’s just a man, but you ever seen this dude with a guitar in his hands?
He’s got a mic set, two step, three and to the four
sha ma ha ma la ma daba dah, something with a door
He aint a figment of your imagination
But he edits wikipedia for recreation
a phi beta kappa, growed up a wolverine
I’m telling you now, this kid is the dream!
[Chorus]
So when I say Marko
You say – Hey Yo!
Marko — Hey Yo
Marko — Hey Yo
And when I say Ottoman
You say – For the Win!
Ottoman — For the Win
Ottoman — For the Win
[verse 2]
he hails from a state that looks like a hand
and even in the summers you wanna stay on dry land
motor city, river city, he’s got a mind full of maps
and if you need to know, he’s full of fun fax!
raise your glass to toast, this kid’s the real deal
look him in the eye, cheers to every meal
I take one sip now [sip] I take one sip later [sip]
if i keep sippin, i’ll be drippin’ on the ottoman chair leather
[Chorus]
So when I say Marko
You say – Hey Yo!
Marko — Hey Yo
Marko — Hey Yo
And when I say Ottoman
You say – For the Win!
Ottoman — For the Win
Ottoman — For the Win
[verse 3]
so give him the greenlight, heck give him any light
he can roll thru the stops like Poe with macabre
land of the brave, home of the free
Marko is a man who’s gonna rule this city.
We gonna raise the roof
We gonna give you the proof
you need a whiteboard drawler’?
basketball bawler’, car pool caller
kid with a mic that’s gonna be up all night?
Then you better call the man, with the plan on his hand
[Chorus]
So when I say Marko
You say – Hey Yo!
Marko — Hey Yo
Marko — Hey Yo
And when I say Ottoman
You say – For the Win!
Ottoman — For the Win
Ottoman — For the Win