The next morning she barked out the request as usual. Had it been forever paired up with a traumatic experience in her mind? The song playing on my stereo when the accident occurred was, you guessed it, ‘Ticket to Ride.’ After determining that everybody was safe, while sitting around waiting for the police report to be filed, I’m ashamed to admit that I wondered if the accident would turn Fiona off the song. Recently I was in a car accident while driving Fiona to day care. So we get the twofer every morning on the way to school. We can’t go anywhere in my car without playing ‘Ticket to Ride.’ Sophia, amusingly, has now developed an affinity for the Ringo-performed country cover tune ‘Act Naturally,’ which follows ‘Ticket to Ride’ on the album. Now it’s 3-year-old Fiona’s turn, and she’s picked up the mantle with a vengeance. It sits on a mix tape surrounded by other songs that caught her fancy at the time, by artists ranging from Lucinda Williams and Josh Rouse to The Dixie Chicks and Kermit the Frog. My oldest, Sophia, took to the song several years back. But of all the great Beatles songs, including such blatantly kid-friendly fare as ‘Yellow Submarine’ and ‘Octopus’s Garden,’ why would this tune strike such a nerve with my little ones? OK, I’m generalizing… my sample size is admittedly small - my own two children and my nephew. But I’m still struck by the uncanny appeal it seems to have for children. ‘Ticket to Ride,’ another John Lennon triumph from the Help! album, is by all objective measures a wonderful song.
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