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Much Too Young

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Written for Thursday Inspiration #314 –
“You’re Still The One”. Here’s my response.

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For this week’s Thursday Inspiration, Jim Adams asks us to respond to the challenge by using the prompt word ‘holding’, referring to the song “You’re Still The One”, another song by Shania Twain, a song that is about enduring love and overcoming doubt, a song that is about holding on to a commitment and proving doubters wrong, or anything else we think fits. 

When I was a young girl, there was a popular song called “A Million To One”. This song by Jimmy Charles is about young, forbidden love and parents’ disapproval. It tells the story of a couple defying the odds against their families’ beliefs that their love is fleeting because they are too young. Still, the young lovers pledge to forgive their families’ doubts and remain loyal despite their disapproving parents and the difficulty of their situation.  The song captures the pain of family betrayal while emphasizing the couple’s enduring love and dreams. 

I never faced a situation like that with my family; they loved Bill from the very first time he picked me up for a date. However, this song came out in 1960 …. 8 years before I met Bill; I was a child and knew nothing about romantic love. But I did know about music and singing and this song was so damn “singable”! I still love singing it and hope you enjoy “A Million To One”.

This is “A Million To One” by Jimmy Charles and The Revelettes


LYRICS

A million to one
That’s what our folks think about this love of ours
A million to one
They say that our love will fade like yesterday’s flowers

They’re betting everything that our love won’t survive
They’re hoping (Hoping)
In time we’ll forget each other’s lies

A million to one
They feel we’re too young to know the meaning of love
A million to one
That they’ve forgotten the dreams that we’re dreaming of

But we’ll forgive them because we love them
After all is said and done
They’re one in a million, a million to one

(But we’ll forgive them because we love them)
After all is said and done
They’re one in a million, a million to one

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Phil Medley
A Million to One lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Thursday Inspiration #314 You’re Still The One

Many thanks to Jim Adams for this week’s inspiration. Thanks to you all for stopping by for a look and a listen.

That’s all she wrote, kids. See you on the flip side. 😎

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10 thoughts on “Much Too Young”

  2. Beautiful early ’60s song and what I as teenager in the late ’70s/early ’80s would have called a classic “oldie.”

    I guess “oldie” is a relative concept. You could argue that nowadays ’80s songs, i.e., the music that was contemporary when I was a teen, could be considered “oldies.”

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  3. A lovely song, Nancy

    https://youtu.be/NfhG8m-PCgw

    Birdy From Another Realm, Lisa O’Neill, Lyrics

    The peacock is a stunning bird
    His song is iridescent
    And we tap in to other worlds
    While in the peacock’s presence
    Birdy from another realm
    Enlightens me with colours
    Birdy from another realm
    His song is like no other

    The cuckoo is a pretty bird
    But cunning and I’m weary
    I nurse a sadness not my own
    And still I nurse her dearly
    Then once you know, you’ll always know
    She doesn’t sing sincerely
    The cuckoo sings the cuckoo’s song
    Same song she sings yearly

    “It’ll all come out in the wash you know”
    Said the green-еyed gem from Crumlin
    Solid soul, you’re solid gold
    I drеamed of you this morning
    I dreamed I met you in the eyes, and dancing from the iris
    Flying iridescent lights landed on my eyelids

    And you’ll come around to me again
    When next we need a talking
    Green-eyed gem, I’ve found a friend
    In you because you’re honest
    The cuckoo is the cunning sort
    The peacock is a godsend
    Birdy from another realm
    I dreamed of you this morning

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  4. I didn’t know this song, but my cousin did and she started singing along with it right away. Jimmy Charles re-recorded this song which was written by Phil Medley with vocal backing by the Revellettes, a trio of sisters Jackie and Evelyn Kline, and Dottie Hailstock, whom Charles knew from Patterson. This song reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, in September of 1960. Thanks for joining in and sharing your music, Nancy.

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