Trivial pursit time (which means you can't Google.) Can you finish this line: "You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself ________"?

Grow up? ;-p

Dang – I am old enough to know exactly where it’s from. – this is so close to the surface of my brain and I can’t retrieve it!

Guava? ;-P

I doubt I will spell this right
Is it Gavote? or Gavotte?
Carly Simon, right?
My mom likes her a lot.
You’re so vain is the song I think.
(I remember this because when I heard my mother play the song I asked what a Gavot(t)e was. It’s a french dance!)

masturbate!

“Walk by”

I had some dreams….......but, evidently this was not one of them.

…buy the lottery ticket,

[Responce moderated: Obscene]

”...wached yourself go by,/And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner, they’d be your partner.”

I agree with @SergeantQueen

I always heard it as “go by,” but I could totally believe she’s actually saying a French word I didn’t know, lol.

govot (I don’t know how to spell it).

Gavotte is a dance, but like the waltz, tango or polka the term is used to classify a piece of music based on its “time signature”

I thought it was “go by”, too. I immediately knew the song, but I would never have guessed the right word.

I listened to the song after reading this Q and can clearly hear gavotte now. It rhymes better too (with “apricot”) than “go by” would have. I just didn’t know of that word/dance!

I always heard “goavotte” but it made 0 sense so I just translated it into the nearest thing that did make sense….“go bye.” Only I tried so it came out as “go vot.”
Now we know how 2 year olds who are learning the language feel! My 4 year old grandson and his sister were watching a Thor cartoon. Suddenly he says, “Mom! Dork has a sword like mine!” So…‘tis DORK! THE GOD OF THUNDER! now.

Gavotte

Gavotte

Do you speak French @janbb?

Some.

-^^BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Sorry, the correct answer was Oui or Un peu! But, thanks for playing….....

No, she meant Somme.

Did you as a kid, like when the song came out in 72?

No but I knew the word was a dance. Of course, I wasn’t quite a kid in 72 either. :-)

I was 14.

I was almost 26 when I first heard it in late 72.

I heard it as gavotte, because it rhymed with apricot, although I didn’t know what gavotte meant then.