ponies in the sun the race is soon beginning my father bet the family fortune on a sleek brown horse my father had a hunch we gave up lunch so daddy could make a wager ma would scoff she would scoff hear her scoff and they re off la la la la la yeah they re off la la la la la and they move in a herd like a four letter word and they re off la la la la la tickets float to the ground and the band starts to play as the horses go round and they re off mommy sat and cried but dad was unaffected he said  have you ever had a better two minutes in the last three years she said but joe the dumb horse lost he said sometimes joy has a terrible cost i know that we would laugh we would sneer we would scoff and they re off la la la la la yeah they re off la la la la la mommy s biting his neck as they roll on the deck and they re off la la la la la there is blood on the ground and the band starts to play as the horses go round and they re off isn t life funny people lose money and have fun betting of course is hell on the horses and on families where the betting is done it s a joke to believe someone s won all we did was fight plus they discussed the weather my father bet the family fortune till it disappeared we also laughed a lot that was a thing i often forgot to mention but it s true yes it s true it is true and he s off la la la la la daddy s off la la la la la we get letters from maine where he tries to explain why he s off la la la la la what was lost was not found and the band starts to play as the horses go round and they re off and they re off i hear the bell at the starting gate they are off we re salivating as we re moving moving down the track and they move in a herd like a four letter word and they re off coming down the stretch there is blood on the ground and the band starts to play as the horses go round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and they re off 
['hollywood', 'show tunes']