Yeah but you don’t get a whole lot of pronunciation help. Plus you get tons of different words, especially with someone as hard to understand as Elton John.
Also, I like it here in Cafe Society.
Yes - this song imagines a dance song/craze that never existed but would’ve happened at the beginning of rock n’ roll when Bill Haley & the Comets’ song was a hit…
…similar to Elton/Bernie’s song Bennie and the Jets, which imagine a glam-rock superstar that never existed but was meant to be another Ziggy Stardust type…
Surely it is an allusion to another Bill Hailey song, See You Later, Alligator (In a while crocodile.).
I thought the chorus went:
Laaaa ladihdahdidah ladihdahdidah ladihdahdidah.
Laaaa ladihdahdidah ladihdahdidah ladihdahdidah.
Small nitpick: it’s “Haley”, and the song lyrics are “See you later, alligator; after 'while, crocodile”. It was a popular parting shot in the day.
Actually, I think it imagines a non-craze which ‘Me’ and Suzie liked, but few other people did.
I’ve always sung it (phonetically) Crah-rocking is something shocking…
And come on, people! It’s “See ya later, alligator! In a while, crocodile!” Fits the meter much better.
Obligatory lyrics cite. The meter is fine, as he sings “. . .after 'while, crocodile”, which is also the way we always said it as kids, rather than “awhile”.
Only in a negative way. While the other kids were rocking 'round the clock, he and Suzie were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock.
So apparently they liked the other Haley song better, which was enough to mark them out as rebels.
Of course, no one before Elton & Bernie thought to define “See you Later, Alligator” as a genre. In that sense, the song is a tribute to a genre which never existed, which makes it kind of unique.
Unless one cites “Crocodile Rock” itself as an example of Crocodile Rock, in which case the song is a salute to itself. I think I’m over-thinking this.