How Could I Let You Get Away

I know this is not tomorrow but day after tomorrow ........... sorry!

Now here's the real definition and meaning of this song. " HOW COULD I LET YOU GET AWAY" was originally written by a woman named; "Yvette Davis". It was intended for a woman to sing about a man, or in this case, a boy to sing about a girl. The song was introduced to the Spinners and they song it just the way it was written ..... Now here is the full explanation.

Howdy Doo was a popular children's show in the late 1950's. That show featured Tin Men and Clowns etc. In the lyrics a girl was singing to a boy. She was frustrated that the boy was slow to recognize that she was falling in love with him. You see it is a known fact that girls mature several years before boy on average. They both were probably around the ages of 8 or 9 years old at the time.

The girl who is probably about 16 years old now, reminisces about her chances that were blown. She realizes by now that had she not given up on the slow maturing boy, she would have had him as her boy friend and not some other girl. She now recalls that even the Tin Men and Clowns the boy was playing with were laughing at how ignorant he was to her love advances. She even says that she too was/is laughing at him.

The next stanzer says "Like basketball 5 fouls and that is all". That means that in the game of love she was playing with him, he only tolerated so many advances and then he would reject her as though she'd fouled out of the game. The games he knew how to play so well, she realized she couldn't beat him at. If she only could have beaten him she would probably have been able to resume playing the love game. All these games happened in the Middle of the Play Room.

She was so intense, and intent on getting him to fall in love with her that she forfieted her sleep time which is what the phrase "Got no time to count my sheep today" means. Counting sheep is what people us as an exercise to get to sleep.

In the Mother Goose nursery rhymes; Mother Goose would wind up toys and let them simply walk away. So the girl is saying she spent all this time winding him up of love like Mother Goose and simply let him walk away. Perhaps into some other girl's arms.

As she watched him play make believe fighst with his ABC blocks she became frustrated. All she knew is that block number #10 was beating blovk #2. She recalls how young she was because she remembers that she didn't even know her colors. She said; " and I can't tell green from blue".

Another game she couldn't beat the boy at was "Chase". That's what they often played instead of the game she wanted to play which was House". You know the cat chases the mouse! She would get so mad because he wanted to run and rip and she wanted to mimic life. She wanted to play kiss and hug in hopes that he'd feel the pangs of love and fall in love with her.

Now she bops her hand upside her head for letting him get away. She knew that her needs would intensify with age and her cravings for love would even grow stronger, but in her anger she wound him up for love and let him go because he was slow to get the picture. However by now he's gotten the picture but, it is too late for her.

The Spinners were singing the song from a girl's perspective; not a guys perspective!

I HOPE THIS SONG MEANING IS A HELP TO THOSE WHO LOVE THIS SONG JUST AS MUCH AS I DO!

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!