Don't Refrain From Singing The Refrain
Charlotte Parent|October 2019
“I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road; I’m gonna ride ‘til I can’t no more.”
Derek James
Don't Refrain From Singing The Refrain

Of course you know it. It’s the intensely popular, insanely overplayed and grammatically incorrect song, “Old Town Road,” by Lil Nas X, featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. If you are a parent, you can “name that tune” in one note because it’s arguably the biggest song craze of the year. It had a 19-week run at the No. 1 spot in the country. A little more than two months removed from the top spot in the country, it’s still No. 1 to my 8- and 11-year-old sons.

“Shake your body, turn it out if you can, man; Front to the back, to the side if you can, can; Everybody in the house do the Bartman.”

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