TEDACapella Choir Sings Grateful TEDAholic @TEDActive2013 Ode to TED by Robin Palmer

                                                  

I wrote this song called Grateful TEDAholic, which the TEDAcapella Choir was scheduled to sing on Friday morning on the TEDActive stage, thanks to TED and TEDActive amazing staffers, Nick, Katherine and Kelly. The choir was bumped at the last minute for a couple of TEDEd videos and we were asked to sing at the goodbye party at the pool later that day, which we did. You can't hear us singing in the pool party video very well, as we couldn't get mikes and the partiers were having fun! :) So the choir recorded the song by some nearby bushes, since so many TEDsters had enthusiastically asked to hear it. Enjoy! 

If you may also be a TEDAholic, please sing along! The lyrics are below. And, who knows? Maybe next year, we can sing Grateful TEDAholic as a virtual choir! :)

Grateful TEDAholic by Robin Boudreau Palmer

When I’ve got the blues

'Don’t drown myself in booze

Take in a talk instead with TED

When I feel forlorn

Don't turn on the porn

I snuggle up instead with TED

I’m a grateful TEDAholic

I’m addicted all the way

Flew to TED from Swaziland

And now I’m here to stay

I’m a grateful TEDAholic

So glad I’m not alone

All your smiling faces tell me

That I finally am home

And TED’s family is special - like Active, Ed and Global

Out of all of my ex’s, I love TEDx the best! (spoken -"Way!")

When I’m running scared,

Lost and unprepared

I stop and clear my head with TED

When I’m longing for a thrill

'Stead of crashing down a hill

I know I’ll be elated with TED

I’m a grateful TEDAholic

I’m addicted all the way

Flew to TED from Swaziland

And now I’m here to stay

I’m a grateful TEDAholic

So glad I’m not alone

All your smiling faces tell me

That I finally am home

All your smiling faces tell me

That I finally am home.

(The Choir – from left to right -back row- John Bates, Kathy Larson, Tereza Nemessanyi, front row-Lara Pearson, Linda Ashworth and Robin Palmer. Steffi De Jong is missing, as she had to catch her flight back to France.)

Lyrics and music by Robin Boudreau Palmer

Copyright 2013 Grace Place Music and My Successables, Inc. All rights reserved.

 robin@mywakeupcalls.net     http://www.MyWakeUPCalls.net 

Grateful TEDAholic - TEDActivist Robin Palmer Sings the Song She Wrote for TEDActive 2013 About TED

                                         
I am so happy to be participating at TEDActive 2013 for the first time this month! (http://conferences.ted.com/TEDActive2013) Wow! One of my fellow TEDActivists, Tereza Nemessanyi, had a great idea to assemble an a capella choir and sing a song or two for all of the TEDActivators there. Well, it turns out that Tereza is VERY POPULAR! She would have been the girl in high school voted as Ms. Congeniality AND most likely to succeed! So, she has now been asked to participate in several TEDActive projects and has asked me to organize what I have dubbed "The TEDAcapella Choir." Ok, I did star in Broadway musicals for 15 years, but I have never organized or directed an a capella choir before! I started looking for possible songs to sing and then this song popped out of me a couple of days ago. Now the choir members have one more song to vote on. :)
Enjoy! And if you too are a grateful TEDAholic, I've included the lyrics below, so you can sing along! And if we do sing it at TEDActive, you are welcome to join in with "The TEDAcapella Choir!" Enjoy! :)

Grateful TEDAholic by Robin Boudreau Palmer -
When I've got the blues
'Don't drown myself in booze
Take in a talk instead
With TED

When I feel forlorn
I don't turn to porn
I snuggle up instead
With TED

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
I'm addicted all the way
Flew to TED from Swaziland
And now I'm here to stay

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
So glad I'm not alone
All your smiling faces tell me
That I finally am home

And TED's family is special - like Active, Ed and Global
Out of all of my ex's, I love TEDx the best! (spoken -"Way!")

When I'm running scared,
Lost and unprepared
I stop and clear my head
With TED

When I'm longing for a thrill
'Stead of crashing down a hill
I know I'll be elated
With TED

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
I'm addicted all the way
Flew to TED from Swaziland
And now I'm here to stay

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
So glad I'm not alone
All your smiling faces tell me
That I finally am home
All your smiling faces tell me
That I've finally come home.

Lyrics and music by Robin Boudreau Palmer
Copyright 2013 Grace Place Music and My Successables, Inc. All rights reserved.

robin@mywakeupcalls.net  www.MyWakeUPCalls.com 805.796.8201