Det var hendes fest

Motto til sagde jeg, siger jeg:

It's my party and I cry if I want to
                                 Lesley Gore

Udlagt: Digtsamlingen er hendes fest, hvor hun derfor har lov til at græde, hvis det er det, hun skal og ikke kan lade være med (så vel som at le)

- nu er hun gået fra festen, og det er os, der græder

Pia fortale mig, da jeg skrev et værkportræt af samlingen og forlangte forklaringer på samtlige takkede navne nævnt i en stor sværm til sidst, at Søren Ulrik Thomsen blev takket, fordi han til hendes fødselsdag, da hun grædende (af bevægelse) flygtede ind på et værelse, havde råbt: It's my party and I cry if I want to !

Jeg kender bedst og og er utrolig glad for Bryan Ferry's version på These Foolish Things, som jeg spillede højt på repeat da jeg skrev nekrolog - færgen Brian blev 75 forleden, hvilket Pia skulle være blevet meget meget mere end, hvis der var nogen retfærdighed til, hvilket der tydeligvis ikke er

Info om nummeret fra Wikipedia:

"It's My Party" was credited to John Gluck, Wally Gold and Herb Weiner, staff writers at the Aaron Schroeder Music firm in 1962. The lyrics were actually written by Seymour Gottlieb, a freelance songwriter. He gave the lyrics to Herb Weiner, with whom he partnered in writing songs, to peddle. It was based on actual events relating to Gottlieb's daughter Judy's ‘Sweet 16’ party, before which she cried over the prospect of her grandparents being invited.

"It's My Party" was credited to John Gluck, Wally Gold and Herb Weiner, staff writers at the Aaron Schroeder Music firm in 1962. The lyrics were actually written by Seymour Gottlieb, a freelance songwriter. He gave the lyrics to Herb Weiner, with whom he partnered in writing songs, to peddle. It was based on actual events relating to Gottlieb's daughter Judy's ‘Sweet 16’ party, before which she cried over the prospect of her grandparents being invited.

Because of the pop cultural obsession with the song and its tragic nature, Gore recorded a sequel, "Judy's Turn to Cry". In this song, the teenage girl narrator gets her revenge on Judy. In the lyrics the narrator explicitly finds "foolish" how much she cried when she saw Johnny and Judy together, and seems determined to start anew. But after she kisses another boy at another party, Johnny gets jealous, punches the other boy and returns to her. Following just two months on the heels of "It's My Party," the sequel reached number five on the charts. 

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It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you

Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone
But Judy left the same time
Why was he holding her hand
When he's supposed to be mine?

It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you

Play all my records, keep dancing all night
But leave me alone for awhile
'Til Johnny's dancing with me
I've got no reason to smile

It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you