# Do high school girls give their sweethearts their high school rings? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986 "2017-03-25T05:27:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/1 "2017-03-25T05:27:42Z")
I’d like to sing She’s Got You, the great Patsy Cline hit. Loretta Lynn had a hit with it too. I’ve been listening to Roseanne Cash’s updated version on her album The List. It’s strongly identified with female vocalists. I’d like to give it a try too. 😃 He’s Got You works well. But the class ring reference might be a sticking point. I can’t recall if high school girls used to give their sweethearts their ring. I gave mine to a girl and never got it back. Lyrics [https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tsxrntnf2es6eckzruv5cckerpy?lyrics=1&utm\_source=google&utm\_medium=search&utm\_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics&u=0#](https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tsxrntnf2es6eckzruv5cckerpy?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics&u=0#) I don’t want to spend a lot of time developing this cover unless it works from a guy’s viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/2 "2017-03-25T05:46:58Z")
Should be a fun and challenging vocal to pull off. Music Notes has the sheet music. It starts with a Triplet. I’ve Got Your I’ll have to get used to that timing. Triplets are all throughout the song. I’ll learn the melody on the keyboard first and get the rhythm and phrasing correct. But I don’t want to invest many, many hours practice into a song and have people point out it’s a girl’s song. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/3 "2017-03-25T05:57:29Z")
I thought High School Boys gave their rings to the girls. (long, ugly rant, best left unposted) And that’s why I don’t have mine anymore! Fuck You, Jostin’s! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/4 "2017-03-25T06:02:22Z")
A lot of guys lost their high school ring. My GF attended a different college. I thought a long distance relationship would work. Stupid me. I just can’t recall if girls gave their school rings to guys. This song is intended to reference the 1950’s or 60’s. When exchanging rings with sweethearts was a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/5 "2017-03-25T06:46:31Z")
I did. It got stuck on his finger and after we broke up I never saw it again. He never saw his again either. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/6 "2017-03-25T07:08:42Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I don’t want to spend a lot of time developing this cover unless it works from a guy’s viewpoint. There’s a TTBB arrangement of the song, as part of a Patsy Cline medley. Our chorus sang it. > [@aceplace57](#): > > This song is intended to reference the 1950’s or 60’s. When exchanging rings with sweethearts was a thing. During that period, guys would give their rings to their girlfriends, who’d wear them on chains around their necks. I don’t recall girls giving rings to their boyfriends. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/7 "2017-03-25T10:58:04Z")
people still get class rings? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/8 "2017-03-25T12:28:28Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > people still get class rings? My kids (son is 22, daughter 25) each rolled their eyes when I asked if they wanted one. It was soooo not cool. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/9 "2017-03-25T13:38:16Z")
I dated a girl who’d noted they charged the same price for a dinky little “it’s for girls” class ring as they did for the big sturdy “a guy gets this, and gives it to his girl” ring. And so she’d gotten herself a big sturdy ring – and so,when I gave her _mine_ to wear, she was able to hand me one that I could wear without missing a step. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/10 "2017-03-25T20:15:08Z")
High school was an important part of my life. It’s when I matured and began thinking like a man. Most of my personality and values were formed in high school. It may not be seen as fashionable but I I’d still want a high school ring. It’s a nice momento to remember that unique time in a person’s life. I regret losing mine all those years ago. I didn’t buy a college ring. College didn’t mean as much to me as high school. I’m going to cover this song. The lyrics work equally well from a guy’s perspective. I think the one reference to a high school ring can just be ignored. I’m glad it’s not in the chorus and repeated. It would stick out more. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/11 "2017-03-25T21:06:01Z")
WTF is a class ring? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/12 "2017-03-25T22:02:15Z")
The tradition of high school boys giving their girlfriends their class rings was curtailed, because the girls kept running back to stalled cars on the railroad tracks to fetch the rings. _What was it you were looking for that took your life that night? They said they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight_ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/13 "2017-03-25T22:19:41Z")
In my little part of the world (late '60s, St. Louis) girls did exchange rings with boys. (Not that you asked, but instead of wearing it on a chain, the girls would wrap something around the ring so they could wear it on their finger. Boys would wear the girl’s ring on their pinky if possible.) However, I know that exchanging rings was not a thing everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/14 "2017-03-25T22:46:50Z")
Back in high school, when school rings were costing upwards of five hundred dollars, I remember clearly thinking, “Cripes, if I could get my hands on that kind of money, I sure wouldn’t spend it on no stupid ring!” And my parents would’ve laughed in my face if I would’ve asked. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/15 "2017-03-25T23:06:12Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > WTF is a class ring? It’s a ring to commemorate graduation from High School or College. They were super common in the 1950s. Now not so much. > **[CUSTOM HIGH SCHOOL CLASS RINGS | Jostens](https://www.jostens.com/jewelry/class-jewelry/high-school/high-school-class-rings?rc=671)** > > Celebrate your high school experience with a class ring from Jostens. Check out our different collections of customizable high school class rings and jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/16 "2017-03-25T23:38:30Z")
Class rings were popular in the 1970’s. The majority of seniors in my graduating class bought one. I don’t know about the 80’s or later. They can be ordered online now. I guess some students still buy them. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/17 "2017-03-26T02:57:47Z")
Almost nobody I went to school with wore class rings. However when a sports team had a game, they all wore their home jerseys to school, and their girlfriends wore their boyfriends away jerseys. Thats about it. I missed the whole scene for various reasons. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/18 "2017-03-26T03:35:49Z")
The tradition among me and my friends was exchanging rings with some girl; she wore mine and I wore hers usually as a pinky ring or on a necklace. I always got mine back that way and had it to sell off during the first time gold and silver jumped via the Hunt brothers. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/19 "2017-03-26T06:50:59Z")
I remember girs wearing boy’s rings wrapped in cashmere yarn on chains around their necks. If boys wore girl’s rings, it was not nearly as obvious. Of course, from the girl’s viewpoint (60’s, pre-feminism, girls were openly predatory) a boy’s ring was a trophy; the boy’s view was a bit more subdued). The significance of a boy’s ring is an instant “yeah, I did that too” for women; for men it is a “what the Hell are you talking about” or “Oh - you must be gay”. The big memory was the girl getting a guy’s ring. The reverse is a ??? moment. Leave the song alone unless you enjoy the musical challenge of the arrangement ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986/20 "2017-03-26T07:11:26Z")
Right on Daddy-o! At the sock hop, all high school girls give their dreamboats their rings. They also neck at the drive in and twist again like they did last summer. And then they hook up on Tinder. :dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-high-school-girls-give-their-sweethearts-their-high-school-rings/782986.md?page=2)