Tom Paxton - Ride My Bike

Artist: Tom Paxton

Song: Ride My Bike

Album: I’ve Got a Yo-Yo (1997)

Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is a well-known American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years.

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As the 1990s rolled around, Tom began delving deeply into children's music, recording nine children's albums during the decade.
The second of two compilations of my children's songs released by Rounder Records.

Winner of the 1998 Parent's Choice Gold Award

I don't have a copy

Children's songs

Tom Paxton, acoustic guitar, guitar, banjo, vocals
Bucky Berger, drums
Dennis Pendrith, electric bass, string bass
Dave Piltch, string bass
Ken Whitely, guitars, charango, ukulele, mandolins, banjos, piano, synthesizer, organ, jawharp, autoharp, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, string bass, 5-string banjo, tenor banjo, bass harmonica, accordion, triangle
Chris Whitely, harmonica, pedal steel
Dick Smith, percussion
John Sheard, piano, synthesizer
Kathryn Moses, tenor sax, flute
Stephen Donald, trombone
Graham Townsend, fiddle
Jim Galloway, soprano, baritone sax
Scott Irvine, tuba
Dave Willis, bass
Ian Hunt, guitar
Ed Tossing, emulator
Colleen Peterson, Joan Bessen, Rahim Karmali, Billy Mavrakakis, Nooreen Rahemtullah, Debbie Randall, Justin Tossing, Elizabeth Greenburg, Kala Savage, vocals
Produced by Ken Whitely, Milt Okun & Bob Gibson

Punkreas - Family Gay

Artist: Punkreas

Song: Family Gay

Album: Futuro Imperfetto (2008)

Punkreas are the best punk band known in Italy. Active from fifteen years. Their lyrics, always protest with a brilliant touch of irony crazy and sharp, have the capacity to be easily absorbed and metabolised by listeners.

"Family Gay", from the last album “Futuro Imperfetto” is the sad story of an orphan boy who can not be adopted by a homosexual couple. Clear anticlerical reference.

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Da quando sono solo
Mi hanno rinchiuso dentro qua
Un gelido edificio per chi famiglia non ne ha
Ma come ogni bambino vorrei la cameretta,
Due giochi, un bel trenino,
Forse una bicicletta

un giorno me ne andrò da qua
e nella mia valigia
solo un ricordo resterà
di questa stanza grigia

E dopo molte sere
Passate a dir preghiere
Arriva il grande giorno
Qualcuno che mi adotterà
La direttrice attende
La coppia che mi salverà
Di mamme non ne vedo
Però ci sono due papà

io me ne vado via da qua
preparo la valigia
solo un ricordo resterà
di questa stanza grigia

Ma all’improvviso che grande delusione
Non è prevista questa combinazione
La suora mi bisbiglia “che orribile peccato
Torna a pregare, sarai più fortunato”

Anche per oggi resto qua
disfando la valigia
e quello che mi resterà
è questa stanza grigia
anche per oggi resto qua
ma nella mia preghiera
in croce al posto di Gesù
ci metterò la suora

R.E.M. - The Wrong Child

Artist: R.E.M.

Song: The Wrong Child

Album: Green, 1988

Moving song, in which the bike appears as one of the wonders of each boy. Published in the wonderful album "Green", has a great video that leaves open many interpretations on the wrong child, but among the many, this is what Michael Stipe says ...

“I’m fine with any and all interpretations that aren’t manifested in real life as harmful, hateful or violent. The wrong child was not written about the boy in the bubble or a gay kid, but was instead the influence of HUGO LARGO [who I was working with at the time], particularly Mimi Goese, and her particular and brilliant flair of singing and writing [the double tracked lead vocal was at one point going to be Mimi or Mike]. I just wrote it about a kid who is physically handicapped, and left it purposely undefined.”

Review

I’ve watched the children come and go
A late long march into spring
I sit and watch those children
Jump in the tall grass
Leap the sprinkler
Walk in the ground
Bicycle clothespin spokes
The sound the smell of swingset hands

I will try to sing a happy song
Ill try and make a happy game to play

Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend
Tell me what its like to go outside
Ive never been
Tell me what its like to just go outside
Ive never been
And I never will

Im not supposed to be like this
Im not supposed to be like this
But its okay

Hey those kids are looking at me
I told my friend myself
Those kids are looking at me
Theyre laughing and theyre running over here
Theyre laughing and theyre running over here
What do I do?
What can I do?
What should I do?
What do I say?
What can I say?

I said Im not supposed to be like this
Lets try to find a happy game to play
Lets try to find a happy game to play
Im not supposed to be like this
But its okay...okay