What is Simon and garfunkel's song Mrs obinson about?

Answer 1

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,

Jesus loves you more than you will know.

God bless you, please Mrs. Robinson.

Heaven holds a place for those who pray,

Hey, hey, hey

We'd like to know a little bit about your for our files

We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.

Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes,

Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,

Jesus loves you more than you will know.

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson.

Heaven holds a place for those who pray,

Hey, hey, hey

Hide in the hiding place where no one ever goes.

Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.

It's a little secret just the Robinsons' affair.

Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids.

Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson,

Jesus loves you more than you will know.

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson.

Heaven holds a place for those who pray,

Hey, hey, hey

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon.

Going to the candidate's debate.

Laugh about it, shout about it

When you've got to choose

Every way you look at this you lose.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio,

Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.

What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson.

Jotting Joe has left and gone away,

Hey hey hey.

Answer 2

: "And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson, : Jesus loves you more than you will know : God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson" In the film The Graduate, listless recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has an affair with an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). The song was not completed for the film; only snippets are heard as incidental music. When the film and the music became popular, Paul Simon put the snippets together into a complete song. According to a Variety article by Peter Bart in the May 15, 2005 issue, director Mike Nichols had become obsessed with Simon & Garfunkel's music while shooting the film. Larry Turman, his producer, made a deal for Simon to write three new songs for the movie. By the time they were nearly finished editing the film, Simon had only written one new song. Nichols begged him for more but Simon, who was touring constantly, told him he didn't have the time. He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on; "It's not for the movie... it's a song about times past - about Mrs. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff." Nichols advised Simon, "It's now about Mrs. Robinson, not Mrs. Roosevelt." These lines - : "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? : Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. : What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson? : Joltin' Joe has left and gone away." - are perhaps the most memorable. Paul Simon, a fan of Mickey Mantle, was asked on The Dick Cavett Show by Mantle why Mantle wasn't mentioned in the song instead of DiMaggio. Simon replied, "It's about syllables, Dick. It's about how many beats there are." For himself, DiMaggio initially complained that he hadn't gone anywhere, but soon dropped his complaints when he realized that he gained new fame with baby boomers because of the song. In a New York Times op-ed in March 1999, shortly after DiMaggio's death, Simon explained that the line was meant as a sincere tribute to DiMaggio's unpretentious heroic stature, in a time when popular culture magnifies and distorts how we perceive our heroes. He further reflected: "In these days of Presidential transgressions and apologies and prime-time interviews about private sexual matters, we grieve for Joe DiMaggio and mourn the loss of his grace and dignity, his fierce sense of privacy, his fidelity to the memory of his wife and the power of his silence." Simon subsequently performed Mrs. Robinson at Yankee Stadium in DiMaggio's honor in April of the same year.

Answer 3

This song had originally been a unfinished song Paul Simon had been working on called here's to you Mrs. Roosevelt. Paul had never completed the song so when you hers doda doda they had no lyric. When they were hired to do the musical soundtrack for The graduate the original song Paul Simon had written was rejected by the producer of the movie he was asked to write another song and suddenly Art spoke up and said what about Mrs. Roosevelt. Despite Paul's objection at first they ran through it and the Director and producer of the movie loved it as is. The song is about how in the United States of America it was accomplishment and not just money that equaled to success

Answer 4

The song was a song that Paul Simon had started writing that was originally entitled Here's to you Mrs. Roosevelt, When hired to do the song track the song that they had originally wrote for that part of the movie was rejected by the director and producer for the movie. Paul was attempting to write another replacement song and according to Art Garfunkel he mention in passing the song Mrs. Roosevelt to the director he asked Paul to play it and since there the lyrics were not complete when they sing do do do do ,,, that was because there were no lyrics there but both the director and the producer of the movie the graduate loved it as is so they change the name of the song from Mrs. Roosevelt to Mrs, Robinson.

The song is basically asking a fundamental question about how in days gone by things across the United States was viewed so much differently than when it began to change in the mid 1960's and beyond back then it was accomplishment not merely money that spelled success.

Answer 5

Middle-aged married woman having an affair with a young man.

From the movie "The Graduate" starring a young Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft.