Today's "Arlo and Janis" contains a joke you have to be a certain age to get. It's a reference to an old song. Do you get it?
http://www.gocomics.com/ArloandJanis#mutable_810879
http://www.gocomics.com/ArloandJanis#mutable_810879
I always got music much older than that, when I was a kid. The kind they call "classical"; or German folk songs old enough to have been passed down from the Renaissance or thereabouts.Whatever happened to those old, folksy songs? I don't think kids get exposed to them any more.
Probably not. Most of the kids I come into contact with are only aware of/and/or concerned with the current and most popular tunes. Also the gossip surrounding the musical artist.Whatever happened to those old, folksy songs? I don't think kids get exposed to them any more.
Thanks for the link. Interesting lore. I looked up the song by Johnny Cash on YouTube. I didn't recognize it at all. Growing up my Mom used to listen to Ukranian music mostly and my Dad liked Patsy Cline and music from the 1920's or so. Both died before I was 16 years and I didn't listen to that kind of music back then. My music was Disco and 70's style.Story and lyrics, for those who don't get it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Grandfather's_Clock
If you want to look it up on YouTube, apparently Johnny Cash did a rendition of it