Hank Ballard and the Midnighers: “Work With Me, Annie,” and its sequel, “Annie Had a Baby” (can’t work no more).
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac: “Long Grey Mare.” (“I got a long grey mare, but she won’t let me ride.”)
“Pass the meat, and pour the wine,
I’ll pull yours, if you pull mine,
I’m gonna boogie til I go blind,
Freakin’ at the Freakers’ Ball!”
Dr. Hook
Pass that roach, please, and pour the wine,
I’ll kiss yours, if you kiss mine.
“We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk Railroad:
*Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act
She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact…
Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin’ for the band to return from the show…
Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, come on dudes, let’s get it on
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down…*
“Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band:
I hope that when this issue’s gone
I’ll see you when your clothes are on
Take your car, yes, we will
We’ll take your car and drive it
We’ll take it to a motel room
And take 'em off in private…
I’m okay alone, but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out, you see
I been looking around awhile, you got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
Jefferson Starship, Miracles: “When I start dancin’ inside ya”
Not rock and roll, but Mississippi John Hurt, Candyman “He’s got a stick o’candy that’s nine inches long, he sells it as fast as a hog can chew his corn., All heard what sister Johnson said She always takes a candy stick to bed…”
She put the lime in the coconut…
“You Make Me Feel…” by Cobra Starship:
*Everything you want so let me get up there
I’m the baddest baby in the atmosphere
Tell me what you want so we can do just what you like…
Everything you know I’m flipping upside down
Take you 'round the world
You know I like it loud
Tell me what you want 'cause we can do just what you like…
*
“As he rises to her apology…”
I always took that literally - he was just standing politely as she was saying her excuses before leaving.
Funny, I’d always heard “as she rises to her apology,” as in, she’s rising above the situation to be kind and spare his feelings. A quick google check confirms that “he” is indeed the correct pronoun, but it makes less sense to me now. Perhaps you are right about what’s doing the rising.
Switchboard Susan by Nick Lowe
“When I see you, girl, I get an extension
And I don’t mean Alexander Graham Bell’s invention.”
Oh, Arnold Layne
It’s not the same
Takes two to know
Two to know
Also, what exactly does “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” mean?
Or the even less subtle line from the same song: “I had a taste of the real world when I went down on you”
I think the award for most cringeworthy - both the line and the song in its entirety is the line " . . . we walked in the garden; we planted a tree" from Heart’s drecky All I Wanna Do
Pretty much all of “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel, but especially:
*
show me round your fruitcage
'cos I will be your honey bee
open up your fruitcage
where the fruit is as sweet as can be*
Giving the dog a bone, one of the many gems in AC/DC’s catalogue.
*But I made her cry, and I made her scream, when I curdled her cream
- from the live version (If You Want Blood) of “The Jack”.
I think Billy Squire’s Stroke Me might fit into the spirit of this thread. Not 100% sure, however a sampling of the lyrics below seems to be hinting at something.
Stroke me, stroke me
Give me the reason this is all night long
Stroke me, stroke me
(Stroke)
Stroke me, stroke me
Get yourself together boy
Stroke me, stroke me
Say you’re a winner but man you’re just a sinner now
(Stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke)
Maybe Billy’s just into rowing or possibly painting. Yeah, nothing to see here.
He is merely serenading the blood vessels in his brain. It is like a reverse psychology type of thing.