Recently a listener reached out on instagram to write and say how much this song has stuck with him over the years and wanted to share it with a friend, but couldn't find it. So I told him I'd do a whole new version! And so here it is.

Pause

So my new challenge is to perform and arrange a song that I love without listening to it in the process. So over 4 hours I created this cover of The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping" without listening to the original.
I like it. Enjoy!

Christmas Wrapping (cover)

GLOBE THEATRE (a "Thrift Shop" parody)
Two household's both alike in dignity...

What (x50000)
Badum, badad...
What HO!?

I'm gonna write some plays
Only got several lines in my prologue
I-I-I'm writing, looking for an ending
This play's f--- awesome

Walk into the globe
like but quoth I gotta big pen
Nah I'm just high off the plays that I've written
iambic pentameter rolling off the tongue see
people like, "hark, that's a frigid ass Brit B"

Strollin in hella deep, headed to the mezzanine
Dressed in all velvet, cept my collar which is frilly
Balding on my head, ex-mistresses next to me
Probably shoulda rehearsed this, sounds like a Robert Greene
(shit....)
But here, that's just how it is (wing it!)
Scribin' it, timing it, 'bout to make a couple coup-a-lets
Making witches rhyme when they casting all their spells and ---
Me and Richard B making history can't you see?
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, R/J and some Macky B
I'mma take the Grecian plots
I'mma take the grecian plots
No for real, ask the Grecians, can I have their tragic plots?
Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus
Julius,Troilus, Cressida, Corilanous
They thought that they were hard, They put up with the bard
I started writing comedies and know you know they all can see
Hello, hello, my patron Queen Lizzo
Marlowe ain't got nothing on my drama game hell no
I could take some tragedies, make them funny, sell those
The groundlings would be like, "Ha! I get the base jokes!"

I'm gonna write some plays
Only got several lines in my prologue
I-I-I'm writing, looking for an ending
This play's f---ing awesome (X2)

What you know about saving bears from some dogs and
What you know about even reading or writing?
I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm writing lots of sonnets
One mans rhyme, is a girl tossing their bonnet
Thank your master of revels for checking off the references
Cause either way I'll just keep on writing them in...
I'm at the theatre you can find me in the backstage
At my table writing down lines for a new play
Your grammy, your aunty, your momma, your mammy
I take those favors from their hands yeah I rock that motha
Embroidered handkerchief from a lonely motha
I debut the play and they laugh in that motha
They be like, that play you wrote "what you will" WIll is hella tight
I say, "hey man, the title is, Twelfth Night"
It's a comedy you see of just mistaken identity
Olivia wants Viola but that's just 
Cause she's a girl dressed like a man and
I call that getting just the business
That plays funny yo
But leaving lots of people crying after that is a hella don't
See here, I'mma make my cast tell a lot a jokes
Wanna steal my complex language, you hella won't
Man you hella won't

(Deep thoughts....monologues....soliloquies!)

-HOOK-

I write some deep ass plays
That might go on for days
But by the end you'll see
A genius lies inside of me (x2)

-HOOK-

Is that a metaphor?

Shakespearean "Thrift Shop" [CLEAN]

White Wedding (cover)

These tracks were recorded LIVE at two different concerts held at the Fletcher Music School.

"Box Under the Bed (live)" and "Best of It (live)" were recorded over 2 years ago with my band THE CHAPERONES.

"Eulogy for Art (live)", "Everything and Nothing at All (live)" and "The Sidwalk (live with Nina Kauffman)" were all from this summer.

Box Under the Bed (LIVE)

The Sidewalk (live)

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Music and lyrics by: Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg, and Wandra Merrell.

Dominick the Donkey

A 50's rockabilly Jingle Bell Rock with a Janis Joplin feel.

Featuring:
Hailey Berkowitz on Vocals
Nathan Yates Douglass on Bass and Harmonica
Michael Perrie Jr. on Guitar and Drums

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In honor of David Bowie's birthday, I've decided to release several BOWIE covers in a short album I call, "Watching The Cruisers" - I love all the various stages of Bowie, and these songs specifically inspired me. Each of them mean something special to me, so I hope you enjoy them ....you pretty things!

Watching The Cruisers

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Some favorite songs of mine covered lovingly and quickly when I'm in-between working on other projects. Enjoy!

CASH

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LOVE YOU LACY

Oh Yeah (Passenger Side)

Written during the 2020 Corona Quarantine of NY/NJ - this is a song about the pain of being alone, but the conflict of knowing it's good for you.

The Island

Won't Be Back Again

Try (or, Anthem for a 90's Baby)

Songwriter from Baltimore, then NYC, now VA. 
I just want people to smile when they hear my songs. Thanks for listening! 
Let's make some good music together.

Mike Perrie Jr.

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