Yesterday I was humming “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor all day, so I finally loaded it up on YouTube and was listening to it when Sir Monkeypants got home from work.
He said, “What are you listening to?” And I said, “It’s YouTube,” because I assumed he meant, where did you get this song, because we don’t have this CD.
But really he meant, “What song is this?” And I was all, “You have never heard Fire and Rain? SERIOUSLY? How can you possibly expect to laugh at the contestants on Don’t Forget The Lyrics if you have never heard Fire and Rain?”
I am very, very far from being a music afficionado, so I always just assume that any song that I know, the general population would know. It shocks me that anyone out there has not heard one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
If anyone else out there does not know Fire and Rain by James Taylor, go listen now.
That is all.
TurtleHead 
OMG! What is wrong with that Sir Monkeypants?!!
Every time I hear James Taylor mentioned I think of this crazy girl in high school who used to tell everybody that James Taylor was her boyfriend. She gave us updates every morning of what they did the evening/night/weekend before. She was so convincing we almost believed her — she obviously believed it herself. Now I wonder how they let crazy people like that wander around a public high school without help. Anyway, it kind of spoiled James Taylor for me forever. I mean, some of her stories were pretty graphic…
Ohhh I love Fire and Rain..hey what’s this Don’t Mess Up the Lyrics or whatever it’s called/???? I mess up the lyrics to every song so badly!
Raino — Sir Monkeypants does like to point out that he was not even born when this song came out. So I will give him a pass this one time :).
XUP — Why don’t I know any interesting people like you? All the girls in my high school were too busy having babies to come up with stories like that one!
Porter — Don’t Forget The Lyrics is a shameful addiction of mine — it’s a game show that airs Friday nights in the wintertime. Wayne Brady hosts and the contestants have to sing a fairly famous song, then complete the lyric to win dollars. I’m an addict. I am also, apparently, 80 years old. Oh, that Wayne Brady would make such a handsome grandson-in-law!