They Don't Let You In The Opera (If You're A Country Star)-Kelli O'Hara

[ti:They Don't Let You In The Opera (If You're A Country Star)] [ar:Kelli O'Hara] [al:Always] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]They Don't Let You In The Opera (If You're A Country Star) - Kelli O'Hara [00:12.79]Now I was born down in Georgia [00:16.70]But Georgia wasn't good enough for me [00:20.33]I'd sing country songs for them but [00:22.83]My heart sang La Bohème and it [00:25.21]Didn't help we moved to Tennessee [00:28.29] [00:29.03]Nashville's not the place you sing [00:30.95]High C [00:32.50]If you wanna sing at all you [00:34.36]Best sing country so I picked up [00:37.61]How to do it pretty fast [00:39.39] [00:40.46]Be a country star or go in a [00:43.03]Sticks them hicks don't know [00:44.93]Verdi's Rigoletto from their alps [00:47.57] [00:48.74]So a country star's how I came to pass [00:52.33]But I'll sing opera one day [00:54.61]It's like opry with an a I told [00:57.14]My agent in his fancy car [00:59.56] [01:00.62]And it pained him I could tell [01:02.35]When he said no chance in hell [01:04.44]They don't let you in the opera [01:06.87]If you're a country star [01:08.48] [01:09.35]Is it the way I say oblighetto [01:11.56] [01:12.43]So I took that country singing [01:14.33]Job and shoved it and I headed to [01:17.50]The Met at NYC I know that stage [01:21.45]Is hard to reach but Domingo likes a peach [01:24.72]You should hear that tenor voice sing [01:26.63]Rockabilly now I'm trying out for [01:29.91]The Barber of Sevilly when a voice [01:33.24]Booms from a house from those [01:34.91]Tassels on your blouse I can tell [01:37.25]You've got a twang and play guitar [01:39.76]Aha I bet they loved you in the south [01:42.25]But please don't open your mouth [01:44.42]We can't let you in the opera if you're a [01:47.42]Country star 'cause no patron trusts [01:49.69]An opera in the hands of a country star [01:52.39] [01:53.42]Do you think I can't wail just 'cause [01:55.64]I got long pink fingernails I had to play [01:58.19]More country songs just to stay [01:59.78]Afloat though I ain't as moral I'm in [02:03.79]A southern pigeon hole I sing like [02:05.92]Mary Callas but no one's heard a note [02:08.30]Till I charmed an old blowhard who [02:10.75]Owns half of Julliard said my singing [02:13.37]Was so beautiful he cried [02:15.68] [02:16.43]And I felt my [02:17.43]Heartbeat hop then I heard his heartbeat [02:19.92]Stop he said [02:21.00]Welcome to the Opera [02:22.65]And then the basterd died [02:24.52] [02:30.88]Well time went by I gave up on the opera [02:34.17] [02:35.87]Grabbed a man got ready for a kid [02:38.57] [02:40.06]Though La Scala never called my ears still get [02:43.79]Enthralled when I hear a great soprano [02:46.87]Blow her lid so head up to the opera house [02:52.04]I did [02:53.00] [02:55.23]But as bravados start to shake I feel [02:59.61]My water break I'd never even make it [03:04.02]Down the aisle [03:05.12] [03:05.99]If you'd have been there [03:07.08]You'd have seen in that second mezzanine [03:10.24]First a head then two feet from my 90 dollar seat [03:14.28]As I lifted up my gown to the Dr Toravelle [03:21.33] [03:22.84]It hurts like [03:24.65]Oh my God [03:29.30]Oh my God [03:29.97]Oh my God [03:30.84]Does that squish the baby [03:34.21] [03:34.82]How can it breathe [03:39.04] [03:39.72]Contraction [03:40.82]Contraction [03:41.40]Oh [03:43.07]Contraction [03:43.72]Contraction [03:44.57]Oh [03:46.13]My God I paid so much for Dr Chung [03:48.76]And now this [03:51.79] [03:59.21]Ow you son of a bicth [04:01.16] [04:02.14]No thank you I mean it [04:03.69]Oh you [04:04.79] [04:05.37]Oh [04:08.19]Contraction [04:09.02]Contraction [04:09.78]Oh [04:11.47]Yes I feel that [04:12.88]Oh [04:14.63] [04:19.02]I'm pushing oh [04:23.77]I'm pushing oh [04:26.97]Oh my God oh my God [04:30.57] [04:31.53]It's like pushing a watermelon [04:35.22]Through a hole the size of a lemon [04:40.77] [04:43.68]Aha aha aha [04:47.33]What [04:48.16]Well it better be a boy [04:50.76]Oh oh oh [04:54.13]Oh oh oh [04:57.34] [05:00.36]I'm so sorry about your dress [05:01.76] [05:02.48]Oh [05:09.58] [05:11.92]Well now to my surprise those [05:15.16]Patrons had tears in their eyes [05:17.39]The New York Times Review even [05:19.25]Raved I was all that [05:20.64] [05:21.60]Found a headline [05:23.01]Bazaar opera gives birth to a new star [05:25.76]When she was done [05:26.85]What fun and a newborn [05:27.94]In her lap [05:28.96]Then the head of the trustees board said [05:31.25]Before you cut the cord here's [05:33.51]A agent contract and some caviar [05:36.36] [05:37.20]You'll start right away my dear [05:39.06]We have daycare please sign here [05:41.13]Been my dream since I sang country now [05:44.30]I'm an opera star [05:47.69] [05:48.85]But you were the best part of the opera [05:52.67]By far [05:54.02] [05:55.55]Now a crib ain't where you're [05:57.56]Needing pearls of wisdom but listen up [06:02.02] [06:02.73]Before you've cried a word [06:04.54] [06:06.38]When you hear [06:06.93]No don't get upset it means yes but just not [06:10.90]Yet fight the most when folks say you're [06:14.76]Absurd in the end I believe we all get heard [06:21.68] [06:24.01]But if I may suggest one rule before [06:27.68]I'm no longer cool what you do ain't [06:31.12]Always who you are [06:32.62] [06:33.38]So if you find your [06:34.58]Heart is set on both Memphis and the Met [06:37.61]And they force you to choose don't run [06:40.04]Off and sing the blues bet your ass [06:42.48]You can sing opera if you're a country [06:51.09]That's a C star hey