🎶Little boy blue and the man on the moon.
When you’re coming home son I don’t know when,
We’ll get together theeeeeen,
You know we’ll have a good time then!🎶
Among other things, it says this:
Harry Chapin included various symbols of childhood in the lyrics as reminders of how quickly it ends. “Cat’s Cradle” is a game played with string, “Silver Spoons” are ornamental spoons for babies, and “Little Boy Blue” is a nursery rhyme. “Man In The Moon” could be about the human features children see when they look at the moon.
I… still dont get those lyrics, saying AND the silver spoon after a weird line like cat in a cradle just sounds like nonsense. That or extremely bad grammar.
When you’re coming home son I don’t know when,
We’ll get together theeeeeen,
You know we’ll have a good time then!🎶
Oh, she’s been put in the kettle at the Peking Moon, the same place you ate since noon…
(Yeah, I had to)
There’s a bit about the song’s history here.
Among other things, it says this:
Harry Chapin included various symbols of childhood in the lyrics as reminders of how quickly it ends. “Cat’s Cradle” is a game played with string, “Silver Spoons” are ornamental spoons for babies, and “Little Boy Blue” is a nursery rhyme. “Man In The Moon” could be about the human features children see when they look at the moon.
It’s referencing a series of different nursery rhymes. It does come out awkward, though.
now she’s giving her a pounding heartache