I think I first heard the song - I Don’t Wanna Play House in about 1976.
Staying with my best friend at the seaside town of Strahan on the West Coast of Tasmania.
Even at that time, my love of country music was growing stronger every year.
Though I am definitely not into contemporary Country Music.
Once all my favourites from the 60s, 70s and 80s have gone then I will be replaying their great tunes until I too am gone.
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn’t want to play “House” - (a traditional children’s game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a family. Common roles Including parents, children, a newborn, and pets) since, after observing her parents’ troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette 1967
