OK i've been holding back on this subject but since everyone seems to have a
different opinion about what this song's about, i may as well give mine.
I have never related this song to a child/parent thing. I always thought it
was about kids going to school in the morning. They feel hopeful and fresh,
it's a new day, anything could happen, they're getting refreshments (tea and
lemonade) after all. ha ha.
"I'd like to buy you everything..." - this line always made me think she was
singing about a lover, she wants to give them everything, but all she has is
herself for all the mornings still to live. Which may seem to veer off what
i thought was the subject, but wouldn't that be just like her?
The whole songs smacks of hope for a new day and the future to me. It has
always made me feel this way to listen to it.
Donna
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gordon Mackie
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 5:27 AM
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Subject: Morning Morgantown
>Hmmm isnt' Joni wonderful for this kind of stuff...images in peoples
>heads, some the same, some diferent. The parade thing always made me
>think of cafe society. Watching the 'morning' on parade reminds me
>of one of my favourite pastimes. Sitting in a cafe, watching the
>world go by. I lurv it. Especaiily in France or in Italy where
>people make promenading into an art form. It is the 'morning on
>parade'as opposed to a literal parade that I believe Joni is sining
>about. Interestingly, tea and lemonade to drink don't suggest the
>parent /child thing to me either but rather more genteel cafe
>pusuits. In France, the drinking of lemondae is a very grown up
>affair...not the sweet stuff we associate with childhood at all. So
>I see where you are coming from but my Morgantown scene is totally
>different place.
>
>PS June Tabor is being sent to you this weekend. I mean the tape of
>course. The image of her legs sticking out of a US style mailbox is
>too surreal .
>
>Have a great weekend
>
>Gordon from Glasgow (where do you go to)
