The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Dizerens5 on June 04, 2011, 01:51:56 PM
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I'm not familiar with American children, though maybe I will be one day as I now have a Minnesotan grandson (but he's only one year old now). When you in the US were schoolboys, I mean this would be the 1950s, were you as objectionable as we must have been in the UK? I mean, I've forgotten most songs we had but one had a verse going like this:
Hey Jemima, look at your Uncle Mike, he's in the country, riding a motorbike
First he does a backfire, then he does a skid, now he's in the hospital, thinking about his grid!
And for poetry, we used to recite:
Hush little baby, hush quite a lot
Bad babies get rabies and have to be shot.
Or this one:
Poor little thing, got no feathers on its wing,
got no mummy, got no daddy -- break its bloody neck!
Were you like that in the US?
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Yeah, we had similar songs.
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I'm a 50's guy and yes we had banter like that but never really meaning any of the mean stuff
Not so sure about the banter these days though. I think it's a lot meaner and I think they mean it.
I have a dream that I will wake up some morning and all the people that had their ball cap on side ways the day before will be gone. The Earth would not skip a beat and our productivity would go up 5%.
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I don't remember any songs like that, but I started school in the late 60s.
Then again, nursery rhymes get pretty grim too. "Ashes, ashes, all fall down."
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Pokarekare Ana
Had a rotten banana
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A well known Maori love/folk song,these are the real lyrics.
P[ch333]karekare ana
ng[ch257] wai o Waiapu,
Whiti atu koe hine
marino ana e.