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Thread #104094   Message #2127589
Posted By: Azizi
16-Aug-07 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: Origin: That's All Right Julie (from Ella Jenkins)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: That's All Right Julie
I remembering singing an adapted version of that song to my daughter when she was 5 or 6 years old.

"My version" goes:

"I call you, call you, call you, call you
Tasha*, Tasha, Tasha, Tasha
Tasha wouldn't answer mommy.
Tasha wouldn't answer mommy.
-snip-


I was just having fun, and trying to be creative. But I recall that Tasha didn't like this song, 'cause she would say "Yes, I do! I answer mommy". But I'd keep on singing the song.

One time when she was an adult, and we were talking about the songs we used to sing when she was little, Tasha told me that she hated that "I call you call you call you" song, because she would try to answer me, but I would keep on singing and not listen to her. She said I was mean, because it wasn't true that she wouldn't answer me. Tasha said that she was too young to understand that I was just playing. I apologized to her, because I disregarded her requests for me to stop singing that song. Tasha said that she's definitely not going to sing that song to her children.

Anyway, I'm pleased to say that my daughter grew up to be a wonderful adult with a positive sense of self, in spite of her mean ole mommy.

*Tasha is not my daughter's real name. My daughter doesn't want me to post her name on the Internet. And-see?-I listened to her.

**

I'm not sure where I learned this song. I think it was from an Ella Jenkins record {probably the same one mentioned above}.