Cimarron
IRL is not real
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Bing Crosby's 1944 song "Swingin' on a Star" put a positive light on staying in school and working hard to reach your dreams. Such lyrics would be out of place among the pop songs today. This brings up plenty of questions about what influence songs have on young listeners, and how what is popular shapes their attitude, about the merits and drawbacks of such things, etc. Well, I don't have the energy to develop a question, but here's the song:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATftJiWdkw&feature=related]Swingin' on a Star[/youtube]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATftJiWdkw&feature=related]Swingin' on a Star[/youtube]