# Come On Eileen, literally **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525 "2013-09-23T17:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/41 "2013-09-27T13:21:41Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > The answer changes every time he’s asked. But as I said, the song’s co-writer specifically said it’s not about sex and doesn’t thinks Adams even had that thought during the writing process. To be more clear, I remember it being said not that the song was in any way a specific, graphic, sexual pun about 69-ing, but just that “The Summer of '69” was meant to mean his (or anyone’s) first ‘Summer of Having Sex’ if you will, but that Adams’ simply didn’t occur in 1969 C.E. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/42 "2013-09-27T15:14:09Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > To be more clear, I remember it being said not that the song was in any way a specific, graphic, sexual pun about 69-ing, but just that “The Summer of '69” was meant to mean his (or anyone’s) first ‘Summer of Having Sex’ if you will, but that Adams’ simply didn’t occur in 1969 C.E. I think we’re saying the same thing, but in different ways. But Adams does have two different interpretations of the song… 1. SEX! 69 IS A SEX POSITION! HA! DON’T YOU GET IT? I’M EDGY! 2. “Summer of 69” is meant to evoke that feeling after high school/college where you’re free to have your own adventures for the first time, which includes your first sexual experience. The co-writer leans towards the second one and, even then, he thinks the sex stuff is just a tiny, tiny part of it. Having fun and being free were supposed to be the big themes. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/43 "2013-09-27T16:00:31Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Drugging you is easy 'cause you’re beautiful. > Think about it, there must be a higher drug. Bring me a higher drug! > I drug you baby, and if it’s quite alright I need you baby to warm my lonely nights. > I’m hooked on a feeling, I’m high on believing, that I’m in drug with you. > Can you feel the drug tonight, the peace the evening brings? > Because I can’t stop drugging you. Oh no I won’t stop drugging you. Woah I can’t stop drugging you. How could I even try? > I drug you Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you oh my soul rejoice. > And it might just save your life… that’s the power of drugs. Feel the power of druuuUUuugs. > Sometimes I am frightened but I’m ready to learn of the power of drugs. > I’ll be here all week folks! Drug is the Love that I’m thinkin’ of… Your Drug is My Love… To be drugged, to be drugged, what a feeling it’s a love… ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/44 "2013-09-27T20:39:46Z")
So what kind of colossal mess does _Come Dancing_ by **The Kinks** leave behind? _Come dancing, That’s how they did it when I was just a kid, And when they said come dancing, My sister always did._ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/45 "2013-09-27T21:27:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Honestly, that interpretation has never occurred to me. Really? I was in HS when it [del]came out[/del] [del]was released[/del] the song was first…aired. Nobody actually thought it was a bukakke song, but we all had our little giggle about what a mess Eileen was in. My wife heard it for the first time a few months ago (she’s a bit younger than I am and the song didn’t stick around for very long initially) and she was kinda nonplussed until I flicked her a wink and suggestive hand maneuver during the accelerando bit. We went to bed laughing out all kinds of alternative lyrics that night. I guess if you’ve never really grown up you can find the humor in it, even if it doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/46 "2013-09-28T17:45:49Z")
Maybe Rosemary Clooney couldn’t afford to have her house painted, so she sent out an invitation via the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/47 "2013-09-28T19:33:37Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Also, I don’t think ‘The Hindenburg’ is going to catch on as a measurement unit for semen. Oh, the humanity! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/48 "2013-09-29T22:56:01Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Your typical bird song translates as “Here I am, rock me like a hurricane”. :::hijack::: for once there’s a mondegreen that still keeps its basic meaning in both forms. While I suspected it was “rock you” (because song title,) my mind can’t help but hear it as “Here I am, raunchy like a hurricane” which is saying pretty much the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/49 "2013-09-30T02:49:19Z")
They are all about heroin. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525/50 "2013-09-30T04:45:31Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > A bad joke that I remember from that era: > > Q: What’s the one thing that’s worse than grease on Olivia Newton-John? > A: Come on Eileen. When the song was a hit, my brother was about to play this song on his high school radio show, and the other DJ told that joke, only it was sweat, not grease. That other DJ was told not to do anything like that again. 😛 Some years later, the Dexys singer released an album called “My Beauty” that by all accounts was not bad musically, but people refused to buy it because of the cover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-eileen-literally/669525.md?page=2)