With the intent of making a living for themselves, the newlyweds moved into Priscilla ’s parents ’ house with their newborn daughter Michelle. ” The couple were in love and Priscilla was pregnant. In Rolling Stone, Mellencamp recalled, “You could get married there at eighteen without your parents ’ permission. At the age of eighteen, Mellencamp took off to Kentucky and married his twenty-three year old girlfriend, Priscilla. As a teenager, Mellencamp had few interests other than hanging out, getting high, and listening to rock n ’ roll. His father, vice president of Robbins Electric in Seymour, pushed Mellencamp to excel at school and sports, neither of which the boy took to heart. John Mellencamp, with his two sisters and two brothers, was raised strictly. Known for his unpretentious manner and brutal honesty, Mellencamp wishes to be taken seriously on his own terms, without losing sight of where he comes from, which granted, is hard when you ’ve never really left. Bucking the rock star tradition of leaving the hometown for more glamorous pastures, Mellencamp remains a resident of Indiana. But it also produced at least one musician, celebrated son, John Mellencamp. I know it.Seymour, Indiana, a blue collar town about forty minutes from Bloomington, is populated by about 20,000, mostly electronics industry workers. The Pink House then is a stoic symbol that hard times are gonna be with us always-but we Americans just have to keep going to make America better. As his Meowing Cat voice gets angrier and sadder, Johnny Rebel just cries in Sad and Enraged Indiana Tears. The Indiana Hoosier Kitty Cat is angry and enraged!-Meow!-Mellencamp rages "Ain't That America for You and Me!"-as if things will never change! What's most shocking is the hopelessness on the sad rocker. In angry heartland classic rocker Pink Houses, Mellencamp angrily writes about inequality-how the American people don't have it so good after all. To Paraphrase his Midwest Guitar Friend Madonna, Nobody's Perfect. Even with Obama in Office, America will Never Be a more perfect union! John Mellencamp understands this fact better than anyone in Rock. What was one was the truth-it's no anything but! America is full of hypocrisy and lies. The ideas that our founders espoused are now old-fashioned. We all know it! Ain't that America for you and me! Happy Fourth!Īs we celebrate Independence Day, I think America has to be reexamined and reevaluated. Little pink houses babe for you and me, ooo yeah ooo yeahĪs we celebrate Independence Day, I think America has to be reexamined and reevaluated. Little pink houses for you and me, ooo, ooo yeahĪin't that America, hey we're something to see babyĪin't that America, oh the home of the free, 'Cause the simple man baby pays the thrills, Little pink houses, for you and me, oh baby for you and me He says: "Lord, this must be my destination"īut just like everything else, those old crazy dreams Little pink houses for you and me, oh for you and me Oh but ain't that America, for you and meĪin't that America, we're something to see babyĪin't that America, home of the free, yeah "Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock" He's got an interstate running' through his front yardĪnd there's a woman in the kitchen cleaning' up evening slop
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