Posted on 12/09/2017 12:39:20 PM PST by DallasBiff
She was just seventeen,
and you know what I mean
And the colored girls sang do, do do, do dododododo
16 year old girls bought most of the records back then.
Mac Davis. the birthday song and baby baby don’t get hooked on me
"Young Blood" - The Coasters
It is innocent. If the lyrics regarding “six year old” “her mom” & “happy home” aren’t enough to convince, check the lyrics for Chuck Berry’s (the songwriter) sequel “Little Marie.”
The Police ~ Don’t Stand So Close To Me
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
How about “Edge of Seventeen” Stevie Nicks.
"Little Girl" - Syndicate of Sound
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa I’m a little schoolboy too.
Come on now pretty baby I just can’t help myself
You’re so young and pretty I don’t need nobody else.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
I’m gonna leave you baby about the break of day
On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away.
Come on now pretty baby darling com on home
You know I love you baby, I got to get you all alone.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
I’m gonna buy me an airplane and fly all over your town
Tell everybody baby, lord knows you’re fine
Come on pretty baby now, I just can’t help myself
You’re so young and pretty I don’t need nobody else.
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Don’t you hear me crying?
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa I’m a little schoolboy too.
I’m a schoolboy, too. Hey, I’m a schoolboy, too.
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine
I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby.
I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank.
Hey baby now yes I do ha, yes I do
Hey I got to hey, I got to come on home with you
Tell your mama, tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa
Hey, I’m a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, I’m a schoolboy, too.
Ha oww, I’m a schoolboy, too, ow, I want to keep your company
Hey I want to keep your company.
Louie Louie was written by Richard Berry, who was also with the Robins/Coasters. He narrated “Riot in Cell Block No. 9” IIRC.
The lyrics in the Berry version are Caribbean patois but entirely understandable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-2CKsaq5r8
If you know the words Berry wrote you can hear most of them in the Kingsmen’s version.
The RICHARD Berry song was inspired by an earlier CHUCK Berry song, Havana Moon. Whether Havana Moon was an old sailor song I don’t know.
I always thought it was just a little bit suggestive and maybe not so innocent.
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
...
...or Christine Sixteen - KISS
...or Seventeen - Winger
...or Seventeen - Foreigner
Benny Mardones - Into the Night
She’s just sixteen years old
Leave her alone, they say
Separated by fools
Who don’t know what love is yet
But I want you to know
If I could fly
I’d pick you up
I’d take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you’ve never seen - ever seen.
It’s like having a dream
Where nobody has a heart
It’s like having it all
And watching it fall apart
And I would wait till the end of time for you
And do it again, it’s true
I can’t measure my love
There’s nothing to compare it to
But I want you to know
If I could fly
I’d pick you up
I’d take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you’ve never seen - ever seen.
I am definitely hearing musical lyrics differently after all the sexual harassment scandals. In class, I am seeing sexual issues and the paintings about them very differently.
And then last night, I was listening to Springsteen and “I’m on fire” with those first lyrics, and all I could think of was “abuse!”:
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I’m on fire
I was also listening, in a new and similarly shocked way, to David Byrne’s “Buck Naked.”
What does this say about the different filters through which we see the world and how this is changing now? I admit that I am not as perceptive in the world of musical lyrics as I am with artworks, but it is interesting to get a completely different image of the world and perhaps inklings of past abuse. And it is fascinating that so many other Freepers are thinking along the same lines
Most obvious one is “White Christmas”. Singing it or playing it will soon be a hate crime.
Oingo Boingo’s “Little Girls”
Shades of junior high school!
I remember when one of my friends brought an X-Rated copy of those lyrics to school.
I still laugh out loud when I think about that...
She was just seventeen
When I stuck it in betw***
Wake Up Little Susie. Everly Brothers
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