Apropos julen: dagens sang – Rosie won’t you please come home – The Kinks 1966
1. december 2011
Rosie wont you please come home?
Mama dont know where youve been.
Rosie wont you please come home?
Your rooms clean and no ones in it.
Oh my rosie, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it please come back.
Rosie wont you please come home?
Since youve joined the upper classes,
You dont know us anymore.
Live and let your troubles pass.
Rosie, rosie, will you write and tell me,
If you dont want to come back?
I would sacrifice all I have
To have a happy home once more.
Rosie wont you please come home?
Two long years have passed away.
Since you tried to change your life,
Christmas wasnt quite the same.
Rosie, rosie, got any answers?
You are miles across the sea,
And Ill bake a cake if you tell me
You are on the first plane home.
Rosie wont you please come home?
Mama dont know where youve been.
Rosie wont you please come home?
Your rooms clean and no ones in it.
Oh my rosie, how I miss you,
You are all the world to me.
Take a look and see if you like it,
If you like it please come back.
Oh rosie, will you please come back?
"Rosie won’t you please come back" fra The Kinks album Face to Face hører ikke umiddelbart til den samling Kinks-sange, der med det samme sætter sig fast i hukommelse. Sådan som det er tilfældet med fx "Dandy" og "Sunny Afternoon" fra samme album. Men til gengæld er det en sang, der vinder ved genhør. Og så er det en ægte Ray Davies-sang. Både en kærlighedssang og en sang om det engelske klassesamfund, hvor unge kunne drømme om ‘a room at the top’ eller at finde sig en rig mand, der kunne trække en ud af livet i forstædernes semi-detached-huse. Sange kryber langsomt ind under huden, jo flere gange man lægger øre til den.
