Monday, May 02, 2005

Songs from My Childhood, Part I

The other day, I had the following song running through my head:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor
What shall we do with a drunken sailor
What shall we do with a drunken sailor
Early in the morning?
It was a song I can remember singing back in music class in grade school.

Which made me wonder: what the hell were we doing, a bunch of innocent kids singing about drunken sailors???? LOL Not to be ultraconservative or politically correct, but is the topic really appropriate? I guess the next verse "Put him in a boat and make him row it" might perhaps teach that there are consequences to being a drunken sailor, and one's coworkers can always find a way to make your life miserable if you fail to pull your weight ... LOL

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