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Author: AgProv

Mar 22nd 2012 at 2:53:57 AM

Music:-''Poppa Was A Rolling Stone'' (by the Temptations), where the kids are confronted with the truth about their reprobate parent.

"Hey Mama, is it true what they say,

that Papa never worked a day in his life?

And Mama, bad talk going around town
saying that Papa had three outside children and another wife.

And that ain't right.

Heard some  talk about Papa doing some store front preaching;

Talking about saving souls and all the time leeching.

Dealing in debt and stealing in the name of the Lord."

The father in Cher's ''Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves'' is also not above a little Bible-bashing as well as selling snake-oil remedies.... ''She was born in the wagon of a travelling show/her momma used to dance for the money they'd throw; Papa would do whatever he could/Preach a little Gospel;Sell a coupla bottles of Doctor Good...''
Dad in the Temptations song remains a bastard with a veneer of religion. Dad in Cher's C&W anthem remains a man living on the fringes and the edges, prepared to cut corners to live although despised as a gipsy, but genuinely committed to his family.