Breitbart editor's unusual citation of Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen..." in Roy Moore discussion

Now, I don’t know what lurks in the heart of Ringo Starr…

I’m sure Jimmy Page and David Bowie both liked the song.

but let’s not confuse poetry and art with real life

That’s the only way I can still listen to The Mamas and The Papas

Even Rick James new 17 was a line you shouldn’t hit.

I, for one, know that I prefer my theocratic reactionaries to also embody the notoriously high standards of rock 'n roll hedonism. Also, covering a song is 100% identical to repeatedly doing whatever the song is about; just like with video games. Seems legit.

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Gee, do you think that perhaps that song is being sung to a daughter? :roll_eyes:

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What no one had to sing to Roy Moore ever:

Born too late for you to notice me
To you, I’m just a kid that you won’t date
Why was I born too late?
Born too late to have a chance to win your love
Oh why, oh why was it my fate
To be born too late?

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Last time I saw Marie she was wavin’ me goodbye
With “hurry-home” drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
We were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
She tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
Marie is only six years old, information please
You got to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

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“Well, she’s sexy and twenty three!”

#fuckno

The UK has seriously not forgotten that. “Great balls of fire” indeed.

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Yeah, but I was taking it out of context for the purpose of comedy.

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See also “GIve It To Me, Daddy,” in the ‘party songs’ at archive.org. (A song whose last line was supposed to deny the implied sex, but now just make it creepier.)

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Geez, all these songs. And I thought Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen was bad.

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Hey I wanna join in the fun of naming our favorite songs about paedophilia:

And even more obscure (and far more creepy):

If you’re not familiar with Upper Crust’s shtick they play as decadent English nobleman from the 1700s or thereabouts.

“This video contains content from UMG_MK who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds”

Not to worry, I know the lyrics ;).

Do I rightly sense the “Lexi” part of your name at work here?

:slight_smile:

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You would not be wrong in understanding a celebration of me to be appropriately termed a Lexi-con.

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