My Big Sister (Dialogue)
(专辑: The Storyteller - 1998)
I
come form a
very large family. I've got five older sisters, yes, five. But it was wonderful to be the
only boy in a
family of girls. Life was paradise, until one day my mother surprised everybody, including my father I
think, and at the
ripe old age of 45 she gave birth to another baby boy. And his name was David But it's the
sisters. You see, our older sisters played all of their beebop records on the
radiogram in the
front room where we lived. The
front room. It was the
center of our world, because that's where we helt all of our family parties. Any excuse for a
party, really. Weddings, birthdays, funerals, you name it. A
party would take place in the
front room But it was my big sisters. You see, they put on records by pop idols of their generation. People like Johnny Ray and Perry Como. The
girls did all the
latest dances with their most recent boyfriends. And it's interesting to note that the
dances they did resembled the
various boyfriends. They did the
creep, the
smooch, the
boogie woogie, jive, right down to early rock 'n roll Now, my big sister had a
certain record and my mother refused to have this record played in the
house, because, according to mum, it had sexy lyrics. But whenever mum was out of the
house, my sister would entertain her boyfriend in the
front room and my young accomplist, David, remember him?, he'd get the
record in question and put it on the
radiogram and I
looked through the
key hole into the
front room to see how my sister was doing, and at the
appropriate moment I'd turn up the
volume and the
whole house would throb to these sexy subversive lyrics