Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Mar 17, 2007 19:13:57 GMT -5
I know you guys are probably in a state of shock--smittykins is posting on the country music board??? But during my high school years(1980-84), I was pretty much force-fed country at my house(I always tell my mom that she should be glad I got into oldies/classic rock instead of heavy metal or rap... 
).
Recently, a song that was played often during that time period came into my head. I'm almost positive the title is "You Can't Stop Love," but Googling/Yahoo-ing the title isn't bringing up the lyrics I remember. I only know some of them, but I'll share what I remember.
The basic storyline is about a young single mother:
His daddy left on the night they made him
So in his mother's arms they laid him...
The second verse deals with the difficulties this young mother faces:
(Two lines I can't remember)
She worked in shoes that did not fit her
To pay the rent and the babysitter
Late at night she'd come back home
And she'd clean the house and wash the clothes
She lay down with her body achin'
Lord knows that her heart was breakin'
I don't remember the exact words of the last verse, but the gist is that after some time, maybe a couple of years, guess who comes crawling back but the babydaddy, and he vows that if she'll take him back he'll never go away again. Since this is a country song, she accepts, and presumably they lived happily ever after.
(If I had been the mom, I would have said, "You had your chance before, bucko...and where's my back child support?")
Anyhoo, anybody remember this one and the artist? It was a male singer, BTW.
).Recently, a song that was played often during that time period came into my head. I'm almost positive the title is "You Can't Stop Love," but Googling/Yahoo-ing the title isn't bringing up the lyrics I remember. I only know some of them, but I'll share what I remember.
The basic storyline is about a young single mother:
His daddy left on the night they made him
So in his mother's arms they laid him...
The second verse deals with the difficulties this young mother faces:
(Two lines I can't remember)
She worked in shoes that did not fit her
To pay the rent and the babysitter
Late at night she'd come back home
And she'd clean the house and wash the clothes
She lay down with her body achin'
Lord knows that her heart was breakin'
I don't remember the exact words of the last verse, but the gist is that after some time, maybe a couple of years, guess who comes crawling back but the babydaddy, and he vows that if she'll take him back he'll never go away again. Since this is a country song, she accepts, and presumably they lived happily ever after.
(If I had been the mom, I would have said, "You had your chance before, bucko...and where's my back child support?")
Anyhoo, anybody remember this one and the artist? It was a male singer, BTW.
