OK, I have heard this song hundreds of time, and I am finally convinced. However, I need validation from the SDope. Are there two versions of this song? I swear one says “the champagne tastes just like cherry cola” and another version says " the champagne tastes just like Coca-cola". Am I crazy? I could swear I clearly heard “Coca-cola” just today on the radio when most times they play “cherry cola”. What says the SD?
According to Wikipedia
Yes, Telemark’s link is correct.
FWIW, in the later (live) versions I checked, it’s sung as “cherry cola.”
I actually prefer it that way. I actually can more easily imagine a cheap champagne tasting like an overly sweet generic cherry cola as opposed to the very specific flavor of Coca-cola.
But you lose the assonance.
I hate when that happens.
That’s what HE said!
Yeah, it’s about getting rid of the brand name for UK broadcast reasons. I believe there was a version of Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” that changes the line “American Express will do nicely, thank you” to something more generic as well, for the same reason.
I found it. It was in the hallway closet.
Glad to hear. I was helplessly hoping with harlequin hovering that would happen.
Obscure reference: "Don’t ask him what an assy-thingummy is,” said Edmund. “He’s only longing to be asked. Say nothing and perhaps he’ll go away.” -
All my life, I’d heard the “cherry cola” version; when I first heard the “coca-cola” version - not all that long ago, if I recall - I thought it sounded horribly “off”.
Eustace Scrubb! One of my favourite characters!! 
And now I have to find some music to get rid of the Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola earworm :smack:
I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S-O-D-A, soda
Only if that’s a coat closet. If not, check in your kitchen cabinets.
Interesting timing… LOLA was the answer to a clue in yesterday’s NY Times crossword.
And while we’re on the subject, can someone fill in the blank for me on the second line of lyrics?
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a _________ voice she said Lola
The lyrics sites say “dark brown,” as in guttural.
I wasn’t attempting to show off. Assonance is the word for what I was describing. If anybody didn’t recognize it, they could quietly look it up online without anyone else knowing.
For the record, assonance is not the same as alliteration or consonance. Assonance is when a series of words have similar sounding vowels; try to light the fire has assonance but no alliteration or consonance.
Alliteration and consonance use consonants in a similar manner. Alliteration uses consonants at the beginning of words or syllables - she sold shells for six sequential summers - while consonance puts them at the ends of words or syllables - Chris wished to kiss Melissa on the lips.
No offense intended. Use of the word “assonance” just reminded me of the quote from “Prince Caspian.”