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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Bad lyrics
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 09:35:36 EDT
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> From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)

>> I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called.  You remeber
>> the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5...
>> It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever.
>> 					-- Mark ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph

> Of course it had a purpose!!  It served to remind women of their proper place,
> waiting at home for their man, the breadwinner and head-of-household, to come
> home each night.  One of the cornerstones of new conservative movement.  Bring
> back those old values and those problems will go away.

Sheena Easton had an answer to her own song, "Modern Girl", which was just about
the opposite of "Morning Train".  In this case, the girl is independent and
doesn't even need a man.  (I liked it when the guy asked if he could come over
and she said she'd just be fine watching TV.)

... she don't fill her world with no single man,
    but she's gettin' by doin' what she can,
    she is free to be what she wants to be,
    all she wants to be is a modern girl ...
-- 
Hug me till you drug me, honey!

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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