Monday, January 24, 2011

On music and history colliding inappropriately

On my way to the Metro on Saturday, as I headed downtown to volunteer at Ford's Theatre, I found myself listening to the Beatles Past Masters - Volume 1. Which is how I found myself standing next to the gun that Booth used to kill Abraham Lincoln, dancing slightly to "I'll Get You." The chorus?

"It's not like me to pretend,
But I'll get you in the end,
Yes I will, I'll get you in the end"



Yeah. Disturbing.

Hey, at least I didn't have the children's song "I'm Gonna Catch You" by the Laurie Berkner Band. Super cute, but they chorus of THAT is:

"I'm gonna catch you, you better run
I'm gonna catch you, here I come"



Cute for my 3-year-old niece. Less so when discussing assassination.

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