{"id":203,"date":"2006-09-30T22:51:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T03:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-10-15T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T03:38:42","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-mcdonalds-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week &#8211; McDonald&#8217;s Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The song for this week is one that has been sung by several groups, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblenders.com\">Blenders<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnlmusic.com\">Barenaked Ladies<\/a>.  The song is titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=27224720&#038;s=143441&#038;i=27224675\">McDonald&#8217;s Girl<\/a><\/em> and was originally written, as near as I can tell, by a man named Dean Friedman.<\/p>\n<p><em>I leave from softball practice every night<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s getting dark, but the &#8220;Golden Arches&#8221; light up the way<br \/>\nI turn the corner at the traffic light<br \/>\nI count my money<br \/>\nThen I rehearse what I&#8217;m going to say<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like an order of fries<br \/>\nA quarter pounder with cheese<br \/>\nI love the light in your eyes<br \/>\nWill you go out with me please?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am in love with a McDonald&#8217;s girl<br \/>\nShe has a smile of innocence<br \/>\nOh so tender and warm<br \/>\nI am in love with a McDonald&#8217;s girl<br \/>\nShe is an angel in a polyester uniform<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have any of you fallen in love with a McDonald&#8217;s girl?  My girl was a Dairy Queen girl &#8212; although I didn&#8217;t know her then.  I bet she looked VERY cute in that polyester uniform&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song for this week is one that has been sung by several groups, including the Blenders and the Barenaked Ladies. The song is titled McDonald&#8217;s Girl and was originally written, as near as I can tell, by a man named Dean Friedman. I leave from softball practice every night It&#8217;s getting dark, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}