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Don't send me no young girl to love me
With their eyes shinin' bright
All the young girls are afraid of me
Send me a woman tonight
Don't send me no hand-holdin' baby
'Cause I been with babies before
Don't send me nobody that's crazy
Don't send me no young girls no more
I was entertaining a little girl in my rooms, Lord
With California wines and French parfumes, Lord
She started to talk to me about the War, Lord
I said, "I don't want to talk about the War."
Don't send me nobody with glasses
Dont't want nobody above me
Don't send nobody takin' night-classes
Send me somebody to love me
Please answer my prayer
Please answer my prayer
Please answer my prayer
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Submitted by
yuri_sucupira On Nov 27, 2001
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This is obviously about finding the most compatible person out there for you (specifically NOT young and inexperienced girls), but also not certain others; "Don't send me nobody with glasses, Don't want nobody above me (no snobby, arrogant intellectuals).
But these four lines baffle me; "I was entertaining a little girl in my rooms, Lord. With California wines and French perfumes, Lord. She started to talk to me about the war, Lord. I said, "I don't want to talk about the war.""
Unless he's referring to the fact that he wants to take things further, so to speak, by wooing and romanticising her, and she just wants to discuss the world?
I really have no idea about that bit.
It's on the LP Sail Away, from 1972. My guess: the guy is old and uptight, and the girl is a young hippie.
It's on the LP Sail Away, from 1972. My guess: the guy is old and uptight, and the girl is a young hippie.
She wants to discuss the Vietnam War: a subject way beyond his scope.
She wants to discuss the Vietnam War: a subject way beyond his scope.
The man (the unreliable narrator, a favorite Newman technique in those days) only wanted to get laid. Not to Talk Politics, FFS!
The man (the unreliable narrator, a favorite Newman technique in those days) only wanted to get laid. Not to Talk Politics, FFS!
a simple story. this is a guy who was just hoping to get laid.
then he was shocked (and terrified!) to discover: the woman he'd met wanted to talk with him. maybe even to make him think (oh noes!)
maybe he'd even be challenged to question some of his most cherished, rarely-thought-about assumptions. much much more than he bargained for.