What's odd is the idea that kids might still be chanting rhymes that
assert such '50s 'values' as love/marriage/baby carriage in immutable
order. At what point do they realize that the world around them
doesn't match?
Susan H.
On Dec 26, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Janet Jackson wrote:
>> My kids (12 and 10) andn their school friends still chant rhymes.
>> Some the
>> same as I remember from the 70s:
>>
>> [snip]
>> X and Y, sitting in a tree / K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
>>
>
> I thought this was a confined-to-America thing. The one I heard has
> a second line with some interesting social assumptions:
>
> First comes love, then comes marriage
> Then comes X with a baby carriage.
>
> I don't even want to get into the social-sounding stuff here, you
> can do it for yourself.
>
> Ken, from Washougal, Washington
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