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Original poster

This wasn't quite what I had in mind for holiday childcare

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OhFFSPIL · 04/04/2019 15:56

DD (7) has just wowed me with a rendition of Blanket on the Ground, which, credit where credit is due, was word perfect.

'Granny plays it in the car!' was her defence....

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ILoveMaxiBondi · 04/04/2019 16:03

I have no idea what blanket on the ground is but I’m guessing it’s a fun song!

BarbaraofSevillle · 04/04/2019 16:16

I also had no idea, so googled to discover that someone was certainly having a lot of fun on that blanket on the ground .

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OhFFSPIL · 04/04/2019 16:17

I mean, it really ticks all the boxes as wildly inappropriate country songs go

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TimeIhadaNameChange · 04/04/2019 16:27

Am sure she'll have lots of fun teaching it to her friends at school after the holidays!!!

ILoveMaxiBondi · 04/04/2019 16:33

I googled too! great song for assembly tomorrow morning I think.

insancerre · 04/04/2019 16:36

It’s not explicit or remotely inappropriate

NannyRed · 04/04/2019 16:45

And?................
Sorry op, I really don’t get your point.

Queenofthebrae · 04/04/2019 16:50

Your DD and DM have excellent taste in music! My DD (2) currently loves The Dixie Chicks song Goodbye Earl. Obviously she doesn't understand the content but enjoys it because it's "bouncy"

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OhFFSPIL · 04/04/2019 16:53

It'd liven up assembly for sure

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mclaleli · 04/04/2019 16:56

I hardly think it would liven up anything. Pretty stale song and the lyrics are tame. Don't see the issue with this one!

bigbluebus · 04/04/2019 17:00

I remember a friend's 4 year old singing Sex Bomb (Tom Jones) a number of years ago. We all just sniggered to ourselves (including her parents). She had no idea what she was singing - she just liked the song.

How many threads have been on MN where people have declared that they have only discovered what the lyrics to certain songs meant once they reached adulthood?

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 04/04/2019 19:10

Decent song that, what's wrong with it?
Better thzn sex on fire 😂

NoSquirrels · 04/04/2019 19:14

Those lyrics are tame - are we googling the right song?

pessimisticstateofperception · 04/04/2019 19:20

My dd apparently auditioned for the school talent show with 'before he cheats'

She had been rehearsing with a greatest showman song and decided to mix it up at the last minute.

Still makes me laugh to think of my 8 year old bopping about and singing a song about trashing someone's car because he cheated

I am a terrible mother

TowelNumber42 · 04/04/2019 19:22

Anybody watched Grease again as an adult? Pure filth.

Recently even my young teens missed the vast majority of the filth and thought it a bouncy clean cut fun kind of movie, as did I at their age. Singing along. La la la. Me, my jaw was on the ground at it all.

ContadoraExplorer · 04/04/2019 19:29

Gotta love a bit of Billie Jo Spears, grew up with all those old country songs and you really don't understand the real meaning until much older.

PhilomenaButterfly · 04/04/2019 19:32

This reminds me of a friend's then 5yo overhearing him singing Ten Sticks of Dynamite and then repeating it perfectly in class the next day.

Ten sticks of dynamite hanging on the wall
Ten sticks of dynamite hanging on the wall
And if one stick of dynamite should accidentally fall
There'd be no sticks of dynamite and no fucking wall.

MitziK · 04/04/2019 19:38

I drew the line at a bunch of nine year olds dancing and singing along to Christina Aguliera's Candyman, which included bits of Boogie-woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.

I was NOT having them sing things that included

'He's a one stop shop, makes the panties drop'
'He's a one stop shop, makes my cherry pop'

The teacher hadn't ever actually listened to the lyrics.

They decided to go with the Andrews Sisters' version, thankfully.

Palominoo · 04/04/2019 20:33

The youngest daughter of my ex was really into singing and dancing and belonged to a club.

At the age of 7 both her mother and my ex thought it was delightful that that she had learned all the lyrics to Bruno Mars The Lazy song and sang the song word perfect at a parents night. I sat there and politely clapped afterwards but I thought it completely inappropriate even if she didn't understand the lyrics.

Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Uh, I'm gonna kick my feet up and stare at the fan
Turn the TV on
Throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't, no
I'll be loungin' on the couch, just chillin' in my snuggie
Flip to MTV so they can teach me how to Dougie
'Cause in my castle I'm the freakin' man
Oh
Yes I said it
I said it
I said it 'cause I can
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Ooh hoo ooh hoo
Hoo ooh ooh
Nothing at all
Ooh hoo ooh hoo
Hoo ooh ooh
Tomorrow, I'll wake up, do some P90x
Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice sex
And she's gonna scream out, "This is great"
I might mess around and get my college degree
I bet my old man will be so proud of me
But sorry pops, you'll just have to wait
Oh
Yes I said it
I said it
I said it 'cause I can
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
No, I ain't gonna comb my hair
'Cause I ain't goin' anywhere
No no no no no no no no no oh
I'll just strut in my birthday suit
And let everything hang loose
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh, today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Ooh hoo ooh hoo
Hoo ooh ooh
Nothing at all
Ooh hoo ooh hoo
Hoo ooh ooh
Nothing at all

ThatLibraryMiss · 04/04/2019 21:20

DD's junior school choir teacher once decided that JJ Cale's Mama Don't was a great song for the girls to sing. It was interesting looking round the audience to see the looks of horrified fascination on the faces of the parents who knew the lyrics as the verse in which Mama don't allow no reefer smoking round about drew near. Discretion ruled, though, and she missed it out.

WatchingTheWheels85 · 04/04/2019 21:25

The teacher called me in to tell me although she was impressed he knew all the words she didn't think I am the walrus was suitable for a 4yr old to sing out to the whole class.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 04/04/2019 21:37

My DS was very keen in singing Islands in the Stream when he was three, I am ever regretful that I never videoed him singing it

marvellousnightforamooncup · 04/04/2019 21:39

It's hardly Bitches Ain't Shit. It wouldn't even raise an eyebrow in our house.

PosiePerkinandPootle · 04/04/2019 21:43

If she wants to stick with a Country vibe she could try "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" tomorrow. My oldest DD taught her little sister I'm Sexy and I Know It and when I questioned if this was perhaps the best song she could sing youngest DD said "it's ok it's just a song. I know I'm not sexy because I'm only four. I am cute though."

SneakyGremlins · 04/04/2019 21:48

I remember being about 9/10 and having music in the playground and it was Rihanna.

Approx 50 small children belting out "Sticks and stones may break my bones BUT CHAINS AND WHIPS EXCITE MEEEEEEE" is quite something

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