Excellent, S-Dog! I particularly love the following lines:S-Dog2001 wrote:A little while ago I changed some of the words of the Sound of Music's 'Sixteen Going on Seventeen' to make it so Fatty and Bets were singing it.
I thought I may as well post it somewhere on the the forms as a bit of fun, although, of course, it wouldn't make that much sense to someone who didn't know the original song.
(It's set in a time period some time after the books when Bets is actually 16)
“Fatty, it is rather boring having no mysteries to work on,” said Bets, one Autumn day. “Couldn't you make up one of your marvellous poems, and make it about a mystery, or something?”
“You wait, little Bets, while I think of a good line to start it off,” said Fatty.
“Oh, Fatty, I don't mind you calling me that, but you know I'm not little anymore,” giggled Bets. “I'm sixteen!”
“So you are, Bets,” grinned Fatty. “That gives me an idea for not a poem, but a song.”
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Betsy, what do you think?
Suspects and clues, enough to confuse
Oh, Betsy, how are they linked?
You are sixteen going on seventeen
You're growing old and wise.
Brains such as yours will undoubtedly cause
The downfall of thieves and spies.
Totally unprepared are they
To face a girl like you.
Timid and shy and scared are they
In case they leave a clue.
You'll have someone older beside you
Helping with what you do.
I am nineteen going on twenty
I'll take care of you.
“Oh, Fatty!” laughed Bets. I’m not quite as good as all that! Hang on, I’ve got another verse for it.
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I've got a lot to learn:
Ventriloquize and how to disguise well
Fatty, you teach me how.
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I don't like Mr Goon.
You are much nicer, gentle and wiser,
Canny and opportune.
Totally well-prepared are you
To face a mystery.
Livid, annoyed and scared are they
Who strive to outwit you.
I need someone older and wiser
Teaching me what to do;
You are nineteen going on twenty
I'll depend on you.
You are sixteen going on seventeen
You're growing old and wise.
Brains such as yours will undoubtedly cause
The downfall of thieves and spies.
Totally unprepared are they
To face a girl like you.
Timid and shy and scared are they
In case they leave a clue.
That was BRILLIANT, S-Dog2001!! Loved it. And yes, I caught how you turned it around from the original and made it that the criminals are "timid and shy and scared" of Bets, not the other way around. 
