People, People, PEOPLE! Top Ten: We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About (#6)

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It's cold and rainy and the perfect day to stay in bed. However, as the dwarfs used to sing, I owe, I owe, so off to work I go. First, though, it's time for another song that has "people" in the title. As yesterday's song dealt with the time of the 60s, today's song deals with the children of the 60s. #6: We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About - Jimmy Buffett Okay, older folks: have you found yourself doing something, or saying something, then it hits you: you have become your parents. I find myself acting so much like my dear late mother of blessed memory anymore that I should change my name to hers! "Kids today, I swear." Yeah, that's us. The funny thing is, as this song points out, we were the ones our parents said "kids today, I swear" about! Drawing on his own experiences ("I was supposed to have been a Jesuit priest or a Naval Academy grad"), Jimmy Buffett shows what happened to the children of the 60s in a lighthearted way (dismissing others' "jogging and heavy into health [stuff]" in favor of "cajun martinis and playing afternoon golf"). Yeah, that's what happens when you get older and realize what's happened. Shake it up, baby. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About Written by Jimmy Buffett Recorded by Jimmy Buffett From One Particular Harbour, 1983 Hey, hey, Gardner McKay!