Montage: Gimme the Ball

[GREG]
The worst thing in school was every time the teacher called on me
I’d be hard! I’d be hard!
Really! I'd had to lean against the desk, like this. And the teacher would say
"Stand up straight!"
I can’t, I have a pain in my... side!
"Stand up straight!"
Or walking down the halls, you’d have to walk, like this
With all your books stacked up in front of you

[MIKE]
Yeah, I thought it was only me! I thought I was a sex maniac!

[CONNIE/MAGGIE]
You are!

[BOBBY]
I did too. I mean, it didn’t go down for three years

[GREG]
And the bus. The bus was the worst. I’d just look at a bus and
Bingo!
And then there was the time I was making out in the backseat with Sally Ketchum. We were necking and I was feeling her boobs and feeling her boobs. And after about an hour or so, she said
"Ooh, don’t you wanna feel anything else?"
And I suddenly thought to myself, "No, I don’t." It was probably the first time I realized I was homosexual. I got so depressed, because I thought being gay meant being a bum all the rest of my life

[ALL]
Goodbye twelve
Goodbye thirteen
Hello love
[AL]
Early to bed
Early to rise
Your broad goes out with other guys

[CASSIE]
A diaphragm
A diaphragm
I thought a diaphragm was up here

[DON]
I bought a car;
I bought my first car!

[MIKE]
Padiddle!

[ALL]
Changes, oh
Down below
Up a-

[CONNIE]
You're not leaving this house until you're twenty-one

[MARK]
Every girl I know has lockjaw of the legs

[MAGGIE]
Life is an ashtray
[KRISTINE]
The ugliest boy asked me to Prom
I stayed home
[VAL]
Shit! Made it through high school without growing tits!

[ALL]
Doubt
To break out
It's a mess
[RITCHIE]
My trouble is wine, women, and song
And I can't get any of them

[MIKE]
Your brother's going to medical school
And you're dropping out to be a chorus boy
Nothing!

[BEBE]
Steve McQueen out!
Nureyev in!
[AL]
I got Nancy's picture
Annabelle's locket
Cynthia's ring
And Lucy's pants

[ALL]
Time to grow
Time to go
Ado-
[DIANA]
You gotta know somebody to be somebody

[SHEILA]
All you run around with are bums

[MAGGIE]
Graduation!

[RITCHIE]
Let's dance!
Let's dance!
[AL]
Head on collision
Eddie got killed!

[PAUL]
What am I gonna say when he calls on me?

[Judy/Kristine]
My only adolesence
My only adolesence
My
Only
Adolesence
My
Only
Adolesence
My
Only
Adolesence

[Bebe/Diana]
Where did it go, it was so
Where did
It go
It was so
Where did
It go
It was so
Where did
It go
It was so

[Greg/Bobby/Mike]
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior

[Don/Sheila/Maggie/Val]
13, 14
15
16
13, 14
15
16

[Cassie/Connie/Mark/Paul/Larry/Al/Ritchie]
Suddenly I'm seventeen and
[ALL]
Suddenly I’m seventeen and
Suddenly I’m seventeen and
Suddenly
There’s a lot I am not
Certain of
Goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen
Hello

[BOYS I]
Wah, wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah
[BOYS II]
Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah
[GIRLS I]
Doo dit, dit doo dit, dit doo dit, dit doo dit
[GIRLS II]
Du de du de du de du de doo dit
[RITCHIE]
Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball
Yeah!
Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball
Yeah!
I was always running around shouting
"Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball"
Yeah!
I was so enthusiastic, I was into everything
The yearbook was filled with my pictures
And I was lucky 'cause I got
A scholarship to college!
A scholarship to college!

So I went
Yes, I went
So I’m gonna be this kindergarten teacher
Imagine me, this kindergarten teacher?
And I thought Shit
Shit!
What are you gonna be
When you get shoved outta here
Honey, ain’t nobody gonna be standing there
With no scholarship to life
And I was scared
Scared
Scared
Scared!
[ALL]
So he went
Yes, he went

Shit, Richie
Shit, Richie
Shit, Richie, shit, Richie
Shit, Richie, shit, Richie

Shit, Richie, shit, Richie

Shit, Richie
Shit, Richie
Shit, Richie
Shit, Richie
[GIRLS]
My braces gone

[BOYS]
My pimples gone

[ALL]
My childhood gone, goodbye
Goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen
Goodbye fourteen, goodbye fifteen
Goodbye sixteen, goodbye seventeen
Hello love
Go to it, go to it
Go to it, go to it
Go to it, go to it

[BOYS]
And now life really begins
And now life really begins
And now life really begins
And now life really begins
Go to it!
[GIRLS]
Go to it!
Go to it!
Go to it!
Go to it!
Go to it!