[Ads-l] marching to the beat of a different drum

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, THAT one! Yeah, I remember it now, tune and all.

MAM
Music Magnet

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:03 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> And now that I'm reminded by Nesmith's lyrics, "different" in the
> Monkees/Stone Poneys context means different from each other, not (as for
> Thoreau) different from the rest of the commonplace world:
>
> You and I travel to the beat of a diff'rent drum.
> Oh, can't you tell by the way I run
> Ev'ry time you make eyes at me. Wo oh.
> You cry and you moan and say it will work out.
> But honey child I've got my doubts.
> You can't see the forest for the trees.
> Oh, don't get me wrong. It's not that I'm knockin'.
> It's just that I'm not in the market
> For a girl who wants to love only me.
> Yes, and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty.
> All I'm sayin's I'm not ready for any person,
> Place or thing to try and pull the reins in on me. [...]
>
> [And yes, Ronstadt sings it as "I'm not in the market/For a boy who wants
> to love only me", which always struck me as a bit odd, since she preserves
> the "I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty" in the next line. No wonder, I
> figured.]
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 3:52 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:43:56PM -0800, James A. Landau wrote:
> > >
> > > I remember hearing a pop song with lyrics including "he marches to the
> > beat of a different drum" but I cannot recall what or when the song was.
> > >
> >
> > Presumably the 1967 Stone Poneys version, with Linda Ronstadt on lead
> > vocals. Song written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.
> >
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