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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Yep. Great song.
My granddaughter tells of a time in high school, when a teacher used the lyrics of this song to teach recent history. She got a good number right but had no clue about "children of thalidomide". When I told her about thalidomide babies of the 50s and 60s she was sort of shocked. Unknown history to her. Part of the lives of most Villagers.
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There's also an old b side song that's very popular with teens/early teens - Vienna. I heard one of them playing it a few weeks ago and I was shocked that they knew it, let alone that its made a big comeback.