Greg GudorfFounder, The Gudorf Group, Inc. · Business builder turned advisor and author.

Marie 10 14 15

6 Oct 2021 · 3 min

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In this informal YouTube video, a group of speakers perform a personalized song for a woman named Marie, set to the melody of "Scarborough Fair." Through the lyrics and spoken interludes, they share a series of affectionate anecdotes that paint a portrait of Marie’s life. They describe her childhood love of music—playing flute and tuba—her early involvement in the family store where she installed car stereos, and her reputation as a "Southern Belle" who works as an interior decorator. Listeners hear about her beautiful lakeside home, her two wonderful children, her passion for wine (with a wine‑lined basement), and the strong word‑of‑mouth reputation that keeps her decorating business thriving. The tone is celebratory, conversational, and light‑hearted, with repeated refrains emphasizing how much the participants admire and enjoy Marie’s presence.

Today we're going to sing our song for Marie, and it's set to the tune of Scarborough Fair.
As a little girl, she was beautiful. She played a bit of flute and then tuba. Growing up, she was involved in a lot of things. We call her our sunshine. Mother Bell. She was great at our family store. She installed the stereos in the cars. The women loved that our daughter worked there. We call her our Father Bell. She lives in a beautiful home on a lake. Her two kids are absolutely great. Loves her work and she's really good at it. We call her our Southern Belle. She works as an interior decorator. Her basement walls are lined with wine. She loves her wine and it looks really gorgeous. We call her our Southern Belle.
Very nice. I beat you. So what else about Marie?
This about explains it all.
It does, right? Yep, you had shared a lot of details. Yep, we got them all into the song.
Yeah, and she works and she does, she's just great. Yeah, everything that she does. And she's been doing that for so many years, long time, whatever. And people will call her up and say, hey, they want to paint her house inside, or do this, or do this, do this. And she's really, really good at that, really good.
Good at painting and decorating.
And one gets one, and then they tell the other people, whatever, it just keeps going on and on and on and on, which is Pretty incredible, that word of mouth. Yeah, I have to go there sometime again and drink her wine.
Drink her wine, huh?
She's really good. She's got a daughter.
Where the hell am I staying now?