I’m not sure if this is what music from the Caribbean sounds like. Growing up, listening to my parents’ Beatles cassettes, I always thought this song was from that area, namely Jamaica. Don’t know why. Probably because it was the only place I knew of that was remotely related to that region. For all you know, the Fab Four were singing about Brixton. Anyhoo, it’s a happy song. We got a job, so happy ever after in the marketplace we shall work. Life goes on. :)
27 May 2009 at 12:58 am |
Apparently, the tag line “ob la di ob la da, life goes on, bra” was an expression that Nigerian conga player Jimmy Scott, an acquaintance of McCartney, often used.
Got it off Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da
I discovered your blog some months ago on some random search. You write very well though sometimes a tad cryptic. Keep going.
DD
27 May 2009 at 8:58 am |
heh. i didn’t have a chance to research that. it’s a happy song tho. thanks for the info and kind words. :)
27 May 2009 at 1:48 pm |
No worries, frabjousdays. Do you write professionally?
28 May 2009 at 1:12 am |
i write for a living, yep.