Papa was a rodeo - Mama was a rock'n'roll bandHe did ask me awhile back what a one night stand was, but I was getting ready to go rather frantically and somehow shook having to answer at that exact moment. He hasn't brought it up again (yet).
I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand
Home was anywhere with diesel gas - Love was a trucker's hand
Never stuck around long enough for a one night stand
Before you kiss me you should know
Papa was a rodeo
Here's Aleks singing it while he crafts...
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We love "Papa was a Rodeo" by the Magnetic Fields, I'll have to check out the Cosmonauts!
Lately I've been playing this song I really like over and over, it's "We Both Go Down Together" by Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists, are you the one who was asking for music? I might have already mentioned it here before, if not and you're curious let me know and I'll send you the link) and well, it's really catchy, and I have musical children... So we're at the dining room table doing kiddy crafts, and the playlist gets around to this song and the girls start belting out the lyrics which are basically about a Romeo and Juliet-style romance and suicide, with one particularly uncomfortable line about a deflowering. Surreal to hear that coming out of the mouth of a four-year-old, but also sort of perversely hilarious in such an innocent context. Luckily they haven't yet begun wondering about the actual meaning of whatever we're listening to...
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