Anyone else like Bucky Covington's song "A Different World"

[wdwmom2]

2006 American Idol Top 10 Finalist Bucky Covington.

The lyrics are pretty much right on for me when I was growing up. Except the part where mother's smoke and drank.

Is there anyone else who can relate to this song????

ETA: here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AKe8kOueDw



We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright

We turned out alright

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different world

 

[Christopher Robin]

Love it and lived it.

 

[RonnieJo66]

Me too!


I just kinda think it's funny that he'd record a song about stuff that happened WAY before he was ever born!

 

[lecach]

I just heard it yesterday and liked it - but had no idea it was Bucky!

I remember riding in cars laying in the back window or floorboards when we were little. Even riding in the back of Grandpa's truck. And I remember no seatbelts - my best friend fell out of my Mom's Duster (I can't remember who made the duster) because the door fell open and of course we didn't have seatbelts.

 

[Dodie]

I just heard it yesterday and liked it - but had no idea it was Bucky!

I'm shocked! I had no idea that was who it was!

 

[Youarehere]

Yes! That is where one of my tags came from- we were talking about it on another thread.

 

[Chattyaholic]

Love the song, lived the life.

I remember when DH and I, along with my parents, went to Texas to visit relatives in 1977. Our DS was 13-months old. There were no car seats back then. We removed the middle seats from the van, so just had the 2 captain chairs up front, and a couch along the back. We put DS's playpen in the middle and that was where he rode...all the way to Texas and back!! And sometimes we took him out and he sat on our laps. I shudder to think what would have happened to him had we gotten into an accident!!!

 

[4nana]

Love it!

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

I just kinda think it's funny that he'd record a song about stuff that happened WAY before he was ever born!

Respectfully, I have to disagree. I am younger than Bucky and can identify with things that he's talking about. Perhaps not the 3 channels type but almost everything else I can personally identify with. Maybe it's regional, I don't know, but not much of this is foreign to even people my age.

 

[AuntieM03]

I just heard it a week or two ago, but I had no idea it was Bucky.

 

[helenabear]

Respectfully, I have to disagree. I am younger than Bucky and can identify with things that he's talking about. Perhaps not the 3 channels type but almost everything else I can personally identify with. Maybe it's regional, I don't know, but not much of this is foreign to even people my age.

I'll actually agree with you on that. I think we had 5 channels and probably no lead paint, but the rest is real. Bucky is (believe it or not) 29 years old. I'm almost a year older than him, but pretty much that whole song is true. Oh wait, my public school didn't pray but was taught by nuns

 

[Jazzybell]

DH and I love that song. That was the way we grew up... everything is true right down to the 3 channels on TV. I remember when we got cable in the 70's... I was in high school and thought we had it made because we had HBO!

Also... in grammar school (in the 60's) we had a Bible teacher. She traveled to several different schools - and this was a public school system.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Yep, heard it today as a matter of fact.

"not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright"


this is my favorite line. Reminded me of the me generation thread. I try to instill this value in my kids. Some times you get stuff sometimes you don't. Buck up kid, life isn't always fair and you are not entitled to everything just cause you're there.

Great song!!

 

[wdwmom2]

Oh, I didn't get daddy's belt, I got a freshly plucked switch off the tree, you know, the "whippy" kind. I have to say, I deserved every single switchin' that I got .

 

[Caropooh]

I love it! I keep meaning to put it on my Ipod.
I can relate to alot of it. My DH finds it so funny that I only got 3 channels on our TV. I lived in Western Massachusetts until I was 8, that's all we got. He grew up in Los Angeles, made a big difference.

 

[NC State]

Oh, I didn't get daddy's belt, I got a freshly plucked switch off the tree, you know, the "whippy" kind. I have to say, I deserved every single switchin' that I got .

I got both and it didn't turn me into I'm glad my parents showed me "wrong to right" ways. I think if kids of today had more of this you wouldn't see as many "kids in trouble".