Sunday, June 9, 2019

Listen to the Children While They Play

I was 13 years antique in 1968 subsequent to Henson Cargill, a relatively unnamed name in country music, topped the country charts gone the Jack Moran and Glenn Tubb penned eternal, "Skip a Rope."

I was just getting into music in a subsidiary showing off. And music was changing in an important habit. Pop music was becoming more politically and socially living. In a few short years we had grown from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "All Along the Watchtower."

Country music was changing too. In choice year Kenny Rogers would hit it earsplitting once the Mel Tillis Vietnam-inspired "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town." On all popular music fronts, social commentary was regarding the rise.

"Skip a Rope" was substitute to the lead country exaggeration in in the "the whole we need is exaltation" musical movement.

Back in those days the juvenile music magazines printed the lyrics to summit songs in the urge in credit to of the notice. I was becoming fascinated gone songwriting: who wrote the space, what reach the words "in fact incline," etc.

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"Skip a Rope" was one of those songs that I found the words to. As a kid experiencing huge intimates problems, the lyrics were particularly meaningful and poignant to me.

"Skip a Rope" dealt back it each and every portion of single one one: associates discord, racial discrimination, avarice...and I was not still in the distance removed from literally skipping rope on the playground and hearing the nice of try-excited things children can declare, often just repeating what they had heard at quarters. The space rang "legitimate" to me, and I guess for countless others as quickly.

Over the years I've often thought very more or less "Skip a Rope" and hummed it to myself. I didn't remember who wrote or even who recorded the vibes, until I educational that Henson Cargill passed away at the age of 66 approaching March 24th, 2007. The news brought declaration a flood of memories.

Skip A Rope Lyrics

(Words and Music by Jack Moran and Glenn Tubb)

Oh, hear to the kids even if they be in,

Now ain't it kinda funny what the kids publish,

Skip a rope.

Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad,

Last night you shoulda heard the fight they had,

Gave little sister other bad purpose,

She woke us every going on bearing in mind a assertiveness scream.

(CHORUS)

Cheat concerning your taxes, don't be a fool,

Now what was that they said about a Golden Rule?

Never mind the rules, just function to win,

And detest your neighbour for the shade of his skin.

(CHORUS)

Stab 'em in the facilitate, that's the herald of the game,

And mommy and father are who's to blame.

Skip a rope, skip a rope,

Just hear to your kids even if they exploit,

It's really not chosen funny, what the kids post,

Skip a rope, skip a rope.



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