A vast number of my old audio tapes for my car (and now the songs on the MP3 player in my car) are by Steeleye Span, who sing mostly traditional British songs, accompanied by electric instruments. My kids all have them by heart.
Thank goodness they don't sing them at school, although they have been known to hum them. I think it's the whole British accent thing. They're afraid to sound funny in front of their little friends.
Anyway, I always know when they have finally become an older teen when they realize what the songs are about.
"Wow, Mom!" my son said one day as I was driving him home from hockey. "I'd never realized it, but every one of these songs is either about murder, or it's a happy little f*ing song!"
"And let's not forget the drinking!" I added cheerfully.
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But the moment that your post brought to mind first?
My little sister, then eight, wandering around the house singing "Tonight's the night, gonna be alright!",in her best pre-pubescent Rod Stewart imitation and my friend asking "Ummmm... does she know, or does your mom know that's about losing virginity?" My sister heard it on the radio, apparently, because it wasn't in my collection.
I allowed as it was about as clear to her as it had been clear to me at the same age that "Run for your life, if you can, little girl. Hide your head in the sand, little girl. Catch you with another man, little girl, that's the end, little girl!" by the Beatles was about stalkerish and overly-possessive love. At eight I thought it was simply about passionate and romantic love. Besides it was sung to a little girl. Had to be good, right?
It's a miracle that we all grew up to be so normal...
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Date: 2011-09-16 05:27 am (UTC)Thank goodness they don't sing them at school, although they have been known to hum them. I think it's the whole British accent thing. They're afraid to sound funny in front of their little friends.
Anyway, I always know when they have finally become an older teen when they realize what the songs are about.
"Wow, Mom!" my son said one day as I was driving him home from hockey. "I'd never realized it, but every one of these songs is either about murder, or it's a happy little f*ing song!"
"And let's not forget the drinking!" I added cheerfully.
*************
But the moment that your post brought to mind first?
My little sister, then eight, wandering around the house singing "Tonight's the night, gonna be alright!",in her best pre-pubescent Rod Stewart imitation and my friend asking "Ummmm... does she know, or does your mom know that's about losing virginity?" My sister heard it on the radio, apparently, because it wasn't in my collection.
I allowed as it was about as clear to her as it had been clear to me at the same age that "Run for your life, if you can, little girl. Hide your head in the sand, little girl. Catch you with another man, little girl, that's the end, little girl!" by the Beatles was about stalkerish and overly-possessive love. At eight I thought it was simply about passionate and romantic love. Besides it was sung to a little girl. Had to be good, right?
It's a miracle that we all grew up to be so normal...