Is it just me....??

menletti
menletti Posts: 96 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Yesterday while I was canning my cherry pie filling, I started humming the cherry pie song. You know the one. "oh where have you been Billy boy, Billy boy? Oh where have you been charming Billy?"

So, turns out "Charming" Billy has been out to see his bride.."She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother" according to the song.

Anyone else find it odd that Charming Billy has a bride who is too young to leave her mother? Ack!

Wonder what other songs we grew up with that wouldn't be PC in this day and age?
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  • MiriamManc
    MiriamManc Posts: 22
    i never heard that song before.

    I think it depends what you read into it, i say shes too young mentally.
  • AwesomelyAmber
    AwesomelyAmber Posts: 1,617 Member
    I've done this! Listened to a song and thought "WAIT ha ha did they just really say that?" :laugh: and then that ONE part gets stuck in your head and you just keep on singing...
  • Carol7Jean
    Carol7Jean Posts: 33 Member
    There are soooo many that I look back upon now and I am like....?*!@$^&#*$%%#?!:noway:
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    I've never heard of the song you were talking about, I thought you were going to say the Warrant song, "Cherry Pie."

    anyway:

    the "it's raining, it's pouring" - about a guy who dies in his sleep
    "rock a bye, baby" - about a baby in a tree during a storm and being blown out of the tree and tumbling, most likely, to it's demise.
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    The Sherman Brothers wrote this little classic [here performed by Ringo Starr]:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ainB6qnWBI

    Cheers.
    -wtk
  • teeley
    teeley Posts: 477 Member
    my daughters have a CD of 150 kids songs and I think that every single song makes me laugh...

    A boy and a girl in a little canoe
    the moon shinning all around,
    as he grabs his paddle you couldn't even hear a sound
    and they talked and they talked till the moon grew dim,
    he said you better kiss me or get out and swim,
    so whatcha' gonna do in a little canoe,
    with the moon shinning all around


    or this one,

    I wish I were a little bar of soap, I wish I were a little bar of soap,
    for I'd slippy and I'd sliddy over everybodies hiney, oh I wish I were a little bar of soap

    I wish I was a little mosquito, I wish I were a little mosquito
    for I'd nippy and I bitey under everybodies nighty oh I wish I were a little mosquito
  • cobracars
    cobracars Posts: 949 Member
    When I was young, late 1960's or early 1970's, Simon & Garfunkel had a song "Cecilia". Catchy little tune, but one part is sort of disturbing if you think about it.

    Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
    Up in my bedroom (making love)
    I got up to wash my face
    When I come back to bed
    Someone's taken my place

    Why did he get up to wash his face before coming back to bed?
    And what's up with Cecilia taking on another 'someone' while he's in the loo? Was this 'someone' a guy or a girl?
    and Where can I meet this Cecilia girl? :bigsmile:
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