One-eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store!

http://www.history-of-rock.com/shake_rattle_and_roll.htm

Wow! It just hit me. Can’t believe all these years I didn’t get it.

Or, am I incorrect? Is it not a “dirty” line from an old song?

Just to forstall all you younguns, I’m referring to a penis and a vagina.

While this might be GQ, I thought it belonged here.

forstall shold be forestall.

Just to forestall you spellers.

Having owned recordings of three versions of “Shake, Rattle, and Roll”,I had always known that Bill Haley “cleaned up” Joe Turner’s song. The cleanup included changing the following lines :
“Well, you wear low dresses, the sun comes shining through
I can’t believe my eyes all that mess belongs to you”
being changed to
“Wearing those dresses, your hair done up so nice
You look real warm but you heart is cold as ice”
and changing
"tell you ain’t no child no more to:
“tell you don’t love me no more” .

Elvis Presley (the third person to record the song) hit a middle ground, keeping Turner’s “no child” line, but using Haley’s replacement lines about the dresses.

If the “one eyed cat” lines refer to what you think, I guess it whooshed the re-writers. Whooshed me too, until you just now pointed it out.
Considering the rest of the song, you’re probably right, samclem. Good job! :wink:

Big Joe Turner had lots of double meanings in much of his work, some of it is not all that double either.

I’d say that Samclem is absolutely right, listen to his other stuff.