# Song Lyrics That Need One Minor Change - Your Input **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 7, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731 "2023-07-07T14:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/21 "2023-07-08T01:24:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Come Fly With Me” > > If they want to hear a one-man band in lama land, it should be: > _Come fly with me, let’s take off to Tibet > In lama land, there’s a one-man band > With a tune you won’t forget > Come, fly with me, we can take my private jet._ > > Or they could just pronounce “llama” properly. That would be a more minor change. The one-l lama He’s a priest The two-l llama He’s a beast Sinatra is clearly talking about a Tibetan priest (that’s what’s in the lyrics, not llama, which is not native to Tibet) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/22 "2023-07-08T01:34:29Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _Four **a.m.** in the morning_ is redundant. It should be _Four **o’clock** in the morning_. It’s four o’clock in the morning… Damnit! Listen to me good! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/23 "2023-07-08T01:35:27Z")
Not in the version I heard. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/24 "2023-07-08T01:49:40Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > “Come Fly With Me” > > > > If they want to hear a one-man band in lama land, it should be: > > _Come fly with me, let’s take off to Tibet > > In lama land, there’s a one-man band > > With a tune you won’t forget > > Come, fly with me, we can take my private jet._ > > > > Or they could just pronounce “llama” properly. That would be a more minor change. > > The one-l lama > He’s a priest > The two-l llama > He’s a beast > > Sinatra is clearly talking about a Tibetan priest (that’s what’s in the lyrics, not llama, which is not native to Tibet) Ummm, yeah. That was my point. And that if they pronounced “llama” the way it appears on the lyric sheet, they can keep it in Peru. Otherwise, “REWRITE!” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/25 "2023-07-08T03:50:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > And that if they pronounced “llama” the way it appears on the lyric sheet, they can keep it in Peru. Aren’t “llama” and “lama” pronounced identically in English? ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/26 "2023-07-08T09:35:58Z")
Silenus, The Doors’ “Touch Me” is the first song to pop in my head when I saw this thread - and your version is exactly the way I’d change it. At least we can be glad they didn’t title it “Touch I”! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/27 "2023-07-08T11:04:33Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Billy Joel has some issues with finding the right word. > > In “Allentown” he says “So our graduations hang on the wall” when he probably meant “diplomas”….although that doesn’t scan. > > And in “Goodnight Saigon” he refers to “tameless horses” when he meant “untamed”. I actually think both of these are fine, artistic license-wise. mmm ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/28 "2023-07-08T11:23:10Z")
“Song she brang to me” 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/29 "2023-07-08T11:32:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It doesn’t fix the “Texas/taxes” rhyme, but it’s better than as written. Possibly the worst rhyme in rock and roll. ETA: Actually, Texas-“facts is” is possibly the worst rhyme in rock and roll. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/30 "2023-07-08T12:38:17Z")
Should be: Song she sung to me Song she brung to me 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/31 "2023-07-08T13:30:00Z")
Song she howled at me Song she fouled for me ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/32 "2023-07-08T13:50:54Z")
Mellencamp’s ‘Little Pink Houses’ has this lyric: _And there’s a woman in the kitchen_ _Cleanin’ up the evenin’ slop_ _And he looks at her and says, "Hey darlin’_ _I can remember when you could stop a clock."_ I always thought “hey, doesn’t it mean when you say someone’s ‘face could stop a clock’ that they’re hideously ugly?” Then I was in a dentist waiting room or someplace similar, reading a Mellencamp interview in a Rolling Stone magazine, and the interviewer started the article describing the scene where they met Mellencamp at his home, when his friend was visiting, and witnessed a friendly argument between them in which his friend was arguing my point, and Mellencamp was saying “no, no, it means she was so _ **beautiful** _ she could stop a clock”. So I was amused to read that Mellencamp’s buddy agreed with me. But I don’t know how I’d change the lyric— maybe “I remember when you could turn some heads” and just change line two a bit to rhyme, the line that now ends with the word “slop”. It’s a terrible rhyme anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/33 "2023-07-08T13:54:29Z")
Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” The words she knows The tune she hums… Um, shouldn’t that be just the opposite? The _tune_ she knows The _words_ she hums… ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/34 "2023-07-08T13:55:43Z")
Paul McCartney’s Live and Let Die: “This ever-changing world in which we live in” uhh…how about dropping one of those “ins”, okay? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/35 "2023-07-08T13:56:47Z")
I saw commercially printed sheet music that said the line was **Hey, darlin’… _starve a flower_** , which _almost_ makes sense, but not really. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/36 "2023-07-08T13:56:49Z")
Or just sing “ever-changing world in which we’re living…” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/37 "2023-07-08T14:02:00Z")
And there’s a woman in the bathroom Scrubbing the toilet bowl clean And he looks at her and says, Hey darling I can remember when you were a beauty queen Or better yet, “You’re still my beauty queen.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/38 "2023-07-08T14:04:13Z")
Nice lyric fix! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/39 "2023-07-08T14:31:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Come Fly With Me” The real problem with “Come Fly With Me” isn’t any particular choice of words, it goes beyond that. The first verse starts out beautifully if we’re thinking metaphorically: _Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away_ So far so good. _If you could use some exotic booze There’s a bar in old Bombay_ Uh…what? I’m going to travel half away around the world for a drink in a bar? And when I think of alcoholic beverages, Bombay is way way way down on my list of destinations ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731/40 "2023-07-08T15:39:14Z")
“I’ll be Home for Christmas”: …and presents oo-on the tree Who the heck puts presents ON the tree? And the meter calls for a two-syllable word, there, anyway, so they have to stretch “on” way out. Just make it presents under the tree, and fix both problems. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-need-one-minor-change-your-input/986731.md?page=3)