Power Toss-Up -- A QB Filk

• From: panatropic
• Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:36:26 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TIJ7MQ.0009B4Q4R.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I found this sitting incomplete in a folder
earlier today so I finished it, and here it is. Usual
disclaimers
apply.

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"Power Toss-up"
by K. M. Wilcox

(to the tune
of "Power of Love" by Johnny Colla, Chris Hayes &
Huey Lewis)

The power toss-up is a curious
rule,
Makes one player weep, makes another one
drool.
Wanna win the champion's cup?
Go for the fifteen
with the power toss-up!

Ring in early, get
fifteen.
It's not as easy as it at first seems.
You better
be sure, you better be right.
Power toss-up is
for the really bright.

You must have cunning,
must have speed.
Must be a player of a special
breed.
Be strong and be clever and be confident,
Or You
might just lose five points.
That's the power
toss-up.
That's the power toss-up.

First time you get one,
you might be seduced.
Then you must get one for
the ego boost.
And after that, baby, then you're
hooked;
Get the power or your goose is cooked.

You
must have cunning, must have speed.
Must be a
player of a special breed.
Be strong and be clever
and be confident,
Or You might just lose five
points.

They say the thrill is gone too soon,
like a popped
balloon.
But you ring in again,
And you answer and
then,
If you don't completely mess it up,
You get the
power toss-up.
You get the power toss-up.
Did you
get it?
Ohh.

You must have cunning, and you
must have speed.
Must be a player of a special
breed.
Faster than lightning and willing to fail,
You won't
get fifteen unless you nail,
You nail the power,
nail the power toss-up.
It's the power, yeah the
power toss-up.
You got the power toss-up.
You got
the power toss-up.
Got the power toss-up...