What was tie a yellow ribbon about

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She was rewarded with a medal, a laurel wreath and a silver bowl; however, eight days later Ruiz is stripped of her victory after race officials learned This story got around—or, perhaps, had already been circulating by word of mouth before the novel—and was then told and re-told with slightly differing details.

In it, he substituted a yellow handkerchief for the white ribbon and an oak tree for the apple tree. Radio stations played it several times a day, every day, for months. It topped the charts in eight countries. And it hit with multiple generations, not just youth. I distinctly remember older aunts and uncles singing it when I was kid.

Pete Hamill sued the songwriters, Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown, for copyright infringement to no avail. It belonged to our collective folkloric imagination. Tell it again slower. You blow your nose in them.

That's disgusting. Having agreed that handkerchiefs were not the right word, I agreed with him ribbons was a great idea, and stagecoach became a bus, and I said to him, "Irwin, what do you think we should call it? O-l-e, he wanted it to be ole oak tree. At which point in time I was shivering from the pool, I picked up my guitar and I actually sang the first verse and chorus right off the top.

We knew we had done something we loved. Then we took it to New York for 11 months, and everybody laughed at us. RB: My idea was to play it for Ringo Starr. So, I went to Apple Records because anybody would listen to us because we had big hits. RB: And when I got to the chorus, this man — whose name I won't mention anymore, it's not nice — he deadened the guitar strings and said, "How dare you come and play me garbage like this about a ribbon in a tree.

His girl is going to think he is pretty flaky, hanging their entire future love, on a single instant of ribbon or a tree. She may definitely want him back, but misses the letter, or the bus schedule, which bus, even which "old oak tree", or gets the date wrong, through no fault of her own, dooming their lives to sadness.

And all those issues are not even close to his own personal worry, which he inadvertently hangs out to dry. But, in the end, it all works out, and still chokes me up when I read it. Considering the possible screw-ups, they both got lucky. It could be either prison or military. Because a solider also "does his time". Recall that this song came out in which is when solders were returning from vietnam officially.

However, all music is meant to touch the heart and soul of the hearer and that will be done based on the experience of the one who hears. For me today it has a different meaning then it did was I was 9 when it came out. Today, as I wait for my love to return from his duty, I understand that he may have trepidations about his return and what "is and isn't" his.

Every month another ribbon will be added to my old oak tree until he returns. A man, after 3 years of serving his sentence in jail sent a mail to his woman asking if she still wants him. One way to find out if he is still welcome, he instructed his woman to tie a yellow ribbon around their old oak tree. On the day the man was set free and went home by a bus found out that a hundred yellow ribbons were tied to their old tree which means that he is very much welcome.

Actually, my comment is more a metal comment about the other comments. I read all of the comments and now is a couple hours later and my brain has "mulled over" those comments. It occurs to me that these comments illustrate how things have changed since ,3. First of all, you people are so smug. Can't you appreciate the sentiment of a song without it insulting your intelligence?

Silly love songs. What's wrong with that? I need to know. One commenter in particular criticized the song because they thought that the protagonist relied on chance too greatly to be plausible. That thinking betrays his age. Things were different in ,3. We did not have email. We did not have the ready source of information we have now. Back then, sometimes the best you could do was shoot craps!