My Gen X Playlist: Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Russian Red

My answer is the same to a question asked about a year ago.

Loving Strangers by Russian Red

My dream is to go to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago. A five hundred mile spiritual pilgrimage seems like a long walk. Plenty of time to think and reflect. Thank goodness I’ll have this playlist to keep me company and inspire me along the way.

Russian Red is a Spanish indie folk group that I stumbled upon one day. I’m adding another one of their songs to the playlist. Here is their acoustic version of Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

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For a complete playlist, please click here.

For the Spotify playlist, please click here.

I come home in the morning light,
My mother says "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh, mommy, dear,
We're not the fortunate ones,
And girls,
They wanna have fu-un
Oh, girls,
Just wanna have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night,
My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh, daddy, dear,
You know you're still number one,
But girls,
They wanna have fu-un,
Oh, girls, just wanna have
That's all they really want,
Some fun

When the working day is done,
Oh, girls,
They wanna have fu-un,
Oh, girls,
Just wanna have... fun

Girls,
They want,
Wanna have fun
Girls,
Wanna have

Some boys take a beautiful girl,
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Oh, girls,
They wanna have fu-un
Oh, girls,
Just wanna have
That's all they really want,
Is some fun

When the working day is done,
Oh, girls,
They wanna have fu-un
Oh, girls,
Just wanna have... fun

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