[attach id=277429 size="medium"]Songs from the hit musical Grease are popular, but the uncensored version came as a shock. Image courtesy of KRS Film Distributors[/attach]
A father of a six-year-old girl was casually skimming through the lyrics of a song his daughter was asked to sing in a talent show when he spotted four salacious phrases that could have come out of an erotic novel.
His daughter, who attends one of Klabb 3-16’s care centres in the north of Malta, brought home the lyrics of Greased Lightnin’ to practise for an upcoming talent show.
The 37-year-old father, who prefers not to be named, was gobsmacked by the sexual overtones of the lyrics of one of the most popular songs of 1978 musical film Grease.
The bawdy lyrics included such phrases as: “that ain’t no s**t, we’d be getting lots of t*t”, “the chicks’ll cream”, “I can get off my rocks” and “she’s a real p***y wagon”.
“I’m no saint but when it comes to our daughter, my wife and I are extremely careful what we say in front of her,” he said.
“I don’t think she would have understood their true meaning but children shouldn’t be exposed to such obscene words.”
The father managed to take the handout from his daughter’s grasp before she had the chance to go through it.
I’m no saint but when it comes to our daughter, my wife and I are extremely careful what we say in front of her
“My daughter is very bright and inquisitive. Had she read the lyrics, she would have probably asked me what they meant.”
While the concert will include the participation of both the club’s young children and teenagers, the young girl’s group consists of children aged between five and seven.
The girl’s father e-mailed the Foundation for Educational Services (FES) where it transpired that the children were mistakenly given the wrong version of Greased Lightnin’. The children’s version used in school editions is clean and free from all lewd references.
After being alerted to the mishap, FES officials apologised, adding they had looked into the matter.
They agreed “the lyrics given out might be inappropriate for some children and, therefore, we asked staff members to change the lyrics by adapting the song to the ages of the kids attending Klabb 3-16”.
This prompted the six-year-old’s father to question the phrasing used in the apology, stating that the lyrics “might” be inappropriate for “some” children.
He was contacted by the foundation’s CEO who apologised profusely, adding it was an unintentional mistake, which was not intended to hurt or irritate people.
The CEO assured him such a blunder would not occur again.