I am in my hometown of Detroit for a 4th of July ‘’weekend’’ family get together.
Never mind my little mission that I told y’all about a couple of weeks ago, I was kinda excited to be returning to Detroit...which is not how I normally feel about visits back home.
Back when I was in high school, I had to wake up at six in the morning in order to catch the first of two buses to school in order to be there by the start of 8:30 classes.
Usually I kept the radio on as I slept, so more often than not, my mornings would being with ‘’Mason in The Morning’’ and I would hear the following song either in my sleep or it would wake me up...a little early.
To this day, if there is a song that comes to mind when I think of Detroit, it’s this one; it is so ingrained.
There is one other song that comes to mnd when I think of Detroit...even before Was (Not Was) walked the dinosaur, this was my jam.
Apparently, my association of this song with Detroit is the result of a misheard lyric. The refrain reportedly is, ‘‘Woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks.’’
But coming from Detroit as I do (and as Was (Not Was) does, as well) and knowing the reputation of Woodward Avenue as I do...’’Woodward squeaks and out comes the freaks’’ simply makes sense, at least to me. And I am pretty sure that this bit of wordplay by the group on this song was intended.
Today’s question: Favorite song that is associated with a city that you live or have lived in.
Just an update: The good news is I talked to a relative that does have baby pictures of me...the bad news is the ones that she mentioned are as incriminating as the brief film that I last mentioned, lol
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