Was "Candle In The Wind" Boomer's Class Song?
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | one of our class songs i think and maybe one of my ex uh you know high school |
| 0:07.9 | alum could uh i think it was elton john i think okay the elton john maybe could have been a |
| 0:14.0 | candle in the wind maybe candle in the wind no that could have been our song i'm not sure |
| 0:19.9 | wasn't candle in the wind like later when princess |
| 0:22.3 | diana died didn't you write that for princess diana no it was actually an old elton john's song |
| 0:26.5 | that came back after princess diana died so we were 1970 well 1979 was our graduating class |
| 0:33.5 | i kind of feel like in our prom that year it was like i want to say candle in the wind but wind, but I'm not sure. If it was candle in the wind, I think I would actually take the thong song over that, because at least ours was fun, you know? Candle in the wind is depressing. It's about someone who gets snuffed out too young. I have no idea why I just thought of that. Well, because I brought up class song and you were thinking of yours. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, but I don't, like, I mean, it may have been another, it could have been Yellowbrook Road. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, I have to tell you that of all the songs, that could be the worst choice out of any senior class song, because it's about, is it technically about young people dying before they should i mean |
| 1:12.9 | you can't you cannot come up with a worse song for graduation that's what i'm saying i'm not sure |
| 1:18.9 | that's i'm not sure so it was written in 73 fleggs is telling me, and it was about Marilyn Monroe, who died young. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean, what was that other? |
| 1:36.1 | I mean, you might as well do that Eric Clapton song about the, you know, that horrible one to only meet you in heaven. |
| 1:43.3 | I mean, I guess that wasn't available |
| 1:44.8 | in 1978 |
| 1:45.7 | 39 I don't know if this was |
| 1:48.1 | or not but God |
| 1:49.5 | the problem is starting |
| 1:51.3 | what's that |
| 1:53.8 | he said hold on boomer the prom is starting |
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