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I checked again, and Google sez :
https://www.google.com/search?q=Rum+and+Coca+Cola&oq=Rum+and+Coca+Cola&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59j69i60l3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
f you ever go to Trinidad
They make you feel so very glad
Calypso sing and make up rhyme
Guarantee you one good real fine time
Drinkin’ Rum and Coca Cola
Go down “Point Koo mah nah”
Both mother and daughter singin’ for the Yankee dollar
But yes, I checked others and listened to a better recording and *workin *seems to be more common.
However, so what?
Does 'working" imply sex work? In the 1940s? I doubt that.
How about in this song:Come, my little friends
As we all sing a happy little working song
Merry little voices clear and strong
Come and roll your sleeves up so that we can pitch in
Or
It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog
It’s been a hard day’s night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I’ll find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright
Or
Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’
Barely gettin’ by, it’s all takin’ and no givin’
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it
or Workin’ for a livin’
(Workin’)
Workin’ for a livin’
(Workin’)
Workin’ for a livin’, livin’ and workin’
I’m taking what they’re giving ‘cause I’m workin’ for a livin’
or
Workin’ in the coal mine
Goin’ down, down, down
Workin’ in a coal mine
Oops, about to slip down
I mean if *all *of those are about sex work, it does put a completely different spin on many songs…
Just FYI, NOT to be pedantic, the song’s actual title is “Last Kiss”
MTV refused to air it. Night Flight did.
Here is a complete transcription of the lyrics. It includes the verse,
That’s not about working in an office or a coal mine.
Sure, and? What’s your point? That in a song there’s a verse about making love?
I always thought I Touch Myself (#1 in Australia, #4 in US) by the Divinyls was pretty tasteless.
She Bop by Cyndi Lauper covered the same topic, but was a little more subdued.
Timber by Pitbull (featuring Kesha) was #1 on Billboard for three weeks.
Sounds like date rape to me, whether from alcohol, Ketamine, or Rohypnol.
The old-timey classic “Little Sadie” could be called a murder ballad, I guess, but the protagonist doesn’t seem to have ANY rationale for the killing…he just guns her down cold.
Went out one night to make a little round
I met little Sadie and I shot her down
Went back home, jumped into bed
.44 smokeless under my head…
Yeah, but IIRC it’s Ke$ha singing those lines. I think he does too, but it’s her voicing those lyrics at the beginning of the song.
No, there’s no question by anyone involved what the song is about. Here are the some of the original lyrics sung by Lord Invader:
Literally, the only lyrics online for the Morey Amsterdam version that uses “singing” is the one Google links to, and that appears to the version by Hot Chip. I have no idea why Google returns that link but it’s not the lyrics as written.
Because they’re breaking down the door to take him away (and that would be the death penalty)?
The lyrics to Vehicle by Ides of March are pretty skeevy, especially at the beginning:
It’s a darn catchy song. But I generally feel gross after listening to it. )-:
i don’t know the exact name of it but there was a garth brooks song that was sung sort of tongue in cheek where dad was a trucker and mamma was always lonely so she developed wandering eye
dad came home a couple of days early and caught her fooling around and drove the rig through the house… the tag line was “mammas in the graveyard papas in the pen”
just a pov but wasn’t most of dr dementos stuff considered tasteless at best and utter shit at worst ? like" dead puppies arent much fun"… and i thought “hot child in the city” was sung by a girl …
but that was in the what the late 70s? no one was shooting up their job sites every week like we seem to be now …
“Wrong Way” by Sublime:
*Annie’s twelve years old in two more she’ll be a whore
Nobody ever told her it’s the wrong way
Don’t be afraid with the quickness you get laid
For your family’ll get paid
It’s the wrong way
I gave her all that I had to give
I’m gonna make it hard to live
Salty tears running down to her chin
And the ruins up her makeup I never wanna live
A cigarette pressed between her lips
But I’m staring at her tits
It’s the wrong way
Strong if I can but I am only a man
So I take her to the can
It’s the wrong way
The only family that she’s ever had
Is the seven horny brothers and a drunk-ass dad
He needed money so he put her on the street
Everything was going fine till the day she met me
*
Nick Gilder is definitely a man. Just has an unusually high voice.
Dammit - now you’ve ruined the song for me. The sound of those horns is amazing…