I Never Come to These Places

I Never Come to These Places
Words and Music by Dottie Burman


I'm very pleased to meet you.

My name is Barbara Schramm.

I think your nametag's slipping

And I see your name is Sam.

The singles scene is not for me.

I enjoy a concert more.

So I never come to these places,

I've never been here before.

I'm here to do some research

On the sociology

Of human interaction

For my doctoral degree.

The singles scene is not for me.

I enjoy an art show more.

So I never come to these places,

I've never been here before.


The sign says on the wall that

There's a lecture here tonight.

I hope they have a speaker who is

Qualified and bright.

I've read the total works of

Shopenhauer, Freud and Poe.

I'd really like a lecture on

Turgenev or Thoreau.

You think those writers are passe.

So, what's the topic for today? oh it's...


Remedial awareness and bilingual body language.

Bisexual, transactional gestalt.

Primal psychodrama self-assertiveness expression.

Creative, interpersonal massage.


You think I look familiar.

You've seen me here before?

I must admit I've been here once

But only once not more.

You've seen me at another group?

You've seen me at a bar?

I really think this conversation's gone a bit too far!

Because I never come to these places!

I've never been here before!!

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