Testo The Other Generation - From 'Flower Drum Song' - Original London Cast
Testo della canzone The Other Generation - From 'Flower Drum Song' (Original London Cast), tratta dall'album Flower Drum Song
I am puzzled by the attitude of children over here
They are often disobedient
They seem to have no fear of their father
They come home when they are tired out
Or when they want to eat
And they act as if their coming home
Were quite a special treat for the father
My oldest son at twenty-one has just discovered love
A complicated subject he knows very little of
Your younger son confuses me
The way he uses words
He tells me I am kooky
And something for the birds
What are we going to do about the other generation?
How will we ever communicate without communication?
You don't know where they go or what they do
Ai yah!
And what peculiar thoughts they think
They never reveal to you
A very discouraging problem is the other generation
They want to lead a life that's all their own
Perhaps we ought to let them
Forsake them and forget them
But then we'd only find ourselves alone
With one another
I don't believe we'd like to be alone
When you speak from your experience
You meet with cool disdain
Every child is born with knowledge
Beyond the puny brain of a father
Every child is born with confidence
A parent can't achieve
And the kind of intuition
That compels him to believe what he'd rather
My oldest son has chosen a daughter-in-law for me
A dancer in a nightclub is my daughter-in-law to be
She dances and undresses
Till she's naked as a flea
And everyone can look at
What he alone should see
What are we going to do about the other generation?
How will we ever communicate without communication?
They never take the blame for one mistake
Oh no
Their parents are responsible for every mistake they make
A very discouraging problem is the other generation
And soon there'll be another one as well
And when our out-of-hand sons
Are bringing up our grandsons
I hope our grandsons give their fathers hell
Can't wait to see it
I hope our grandsons give their fathers hell
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Writer(s): Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Richard Rodgers
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