The Wheels on the Bus

[gfish]

Was anybody else confused by this song as a kid? Specifically the "the driver on the bus says 'move on back'" part. I don't know about your grade school bus experience, but at my school the back of the bus was the place to be. What driver would ever need to tell people to move back? It was like the writer of the song hadn't bothered to even do basic research. I remember a similar moment of cognitive dissonance being told about Rosa Parks.

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[boojum.livejournal.com]

I wasn't confused as a kid because I had enough hearing difficulties that song lyrics never made much sense. Fortunately, I also didn't have much of a sense of reality, so I was fine with this.

It makes a fair amount of sense to me-now who sometimes takes crowded city buses. If the seats are full and people are standing in the aisles, they tend not to move back enough to let more people on, even if there's room to do so, so the driver bugs them to move back.