Live with the Man in the Moon
"And here’s to the women who married for love, and live with the man in the moon."
Last week I came back to a tune from my childhood, and specifically a lyric in this song that has been with me since my early years. As a kid it always reminded me that relationships are a fluid thing, how solid or not, they may appear, and the importance of not only finding relationships of one's choosing, rather than one chosen for one, but to grasp the idea that relationships are ever-changing. There are always two vantage points to a relationship. Yours is but half the equation.
The tune: Here’s to You Rounders
I grew up with the Bok, Muir, Trickett version of Don Lange’s song.
The other line that gets me from this song is this closing image:
"Now me and my brother we carry the memory
Of a face we never have seen
Like some foreign coin that lives cold in the pocket
Of a young boy's faded blue jeans."
Thanks to mum for singing this one early on around the house for a young fella to chew on.