XPost: alt.usage.english
From: rh@rudhar.com

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:18:39 -0700: HenHanna 
>Day Tripper -- Song by The Beatles
>
>Got a good reason
>For taking the easy way out
>Got a good reason
>For taking the easy way out, now
>
>She was a day tripper
>One-way ticket, yeah
>It took me so long to find out
>And I found out
>
>She's a big teaser
>She took me half the way there
>She's a big teaser
>She took me half the way there, now
>
>She was a day tripper
>A one-way ticket, yeah
>It took me so long to find out
>And I found out
>
>
>I tried to please her
>She only played one-night stands
>I tried to please her
>She only played one-night stands, now
>
>She was a day tripper
>Sunday driver, yeah
>It took me so long to find out
>And I found out
>
>Day tripper, yeah
>Day tripper, yeah
>Day tripper
>Day tripper, yeah
>Day tripper
>
>
>Meaning in the Song:          The song uses "day tripper" metaphorically
>to describe a girl who isn't interested in a serious commitment, but
>just a casual fling.

I know almost all of the words by heart (except that part with
"one-night stand"), having first heard the song when I was way too
young to understand any of the above explanation.

Let me check: late 1965, in the Netherlands probably early 1966, so I
was 10 or 11 years old.
--
Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com

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