Ricky Martin:
“She nevers drinks the water
makes you order French champagne”
As opposed to the other kinds of champagne available?
As jeffrice correctly spelled it, the word is burley. (Yes, I realize you may have been punning, but I offer the link for the benefit of those folks unaware of this particular crop.)
In a similar vein (as xizor suggests), true Champagne must come from a specific region of France, even though various sparkling wines from other areas are marketed as “champagne”.
PoorYorick: The expression come for to sing is fairly common.
Forty-nine years and I don’t recall ever hearing it. You learn something new every day. Thanks, Sternvogel.
Could this be refering to some code a “one four” or “fourteen”? Does that have any meaning in police call lingo perhapse?
I’ve heard “for to” a number of times.
Metallica:
“Shining with Brightness…”
What else would it be shining with?
Oh come on, if we start discussing America we’ll have to list thr entire catalogue.
“Alligator lizards in the air”
“Singin and jingin the jango”
WTF?
Or Rama-lama-lama-lama-ding-dong?
Or Bar-bar-bar-bar-barbera-Anne?
Or Sussudio.
According to the site I cited for “A Horse with No Name,”
Sorry, I was trying to come up with a clever rejoinder, but the phrase “I think it conveys a certain honesty when you’re not picking and choosing your words” about song writing leaves me speechless (oh, the irony).
When I heard it as a kid (in the 80’s, mind you), I thought it was “Hang On Stupid”.
Oh, heck yes, please do! They played this song every day on the in-store radio at my last job. I cringed in advance for that line. He says “Bleedin’” so clearly, you can almost hear the apostrophe. Bleedin*’***.
Yeah, as opposed to California champagne or New York State champagne or another of the hundred cheaper imitations that use the champagne name without having their grapes grow there.
How about the line “There were plants and birds and rocks and things”?
Things? Well, that’s certainly all-inclusive. They couldn’t have found something else to describe?
Re: the Billy Joel song, I always thought the line was “She can’t be convicted, she’s earned her reprieve.” It has the advantage of making sense.
The entirety of Red Neck Woman sounds like the lyrics and the music don’t quite mesh correctly, but the lines that really grate me are:
And I keep my Christmas lights on
On my front porch all year long
There are sparkling wines made in the US that say “champagne” on the label? I thought they all said “sparkling wine” or some such.
I believe some sparkling wines do have that, but not capitalized. It still is necessary in the song, unless it’s being written from the point of view of a dedicated oenophile.
How about lyrics sung in a hillbilly accent to make them rhyme?
Here is an excerpt from “Hard Workin’ (no G!) Man” by Brooks and Dunn
“I can ride, rope hammer and paint.
Do things with my hands that most men can’t”
But that doesn’t make sense, you say…that doesn’t rhyme at all!
Oh yes it does.
Because when Ronnie Dunn regales us with his accent, “can’t” becomes “caint”…which rhymes rather neatly with “paint”.
This is one of those “I may not be educated, but I’m a manly man, dammit” songs that country artists put out as self esteem aids to their target audiences…but that’s a different subject.
System of a Down’s “Lonely Day” features the oft-repeated line “The most loneliest day of my life”, and it drives me absolutely bonkers every time I hear it.
Not only does it come across as poor grammar, but to match the meter the word “most” is completely unnecessary.
Note to Loretta Lynn: “Hard” and “tired” do not rhyme.
And any song that rhymes “world” with “(un)furled” is annoying. The rhyme is overused and becoming a cliche.