# Songs with hidden/double entendre meanings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691 "2005-12-15T04:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/41 "2005-12-15T18:45:26Z")
Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 and put it away for 5 years. When he took it out and looked at it again in 1943, he thinks he must have absorbed it through his fingers and he tripped. Why he didn’t trip when he first synthesized it has never been explained. Here’s an example of music double entendre: “Garden in My Room” by Merril Bainbridge. She sings in a sexy kitten voice “There’s a garden in room, it has apples sweet and ripe. If you’d like to have a taste I’ll let you. Cherries red as they could be, such amazing things to see. Everything is in full bloom in the garden in my room.” ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/42 "2005-12-15T19:05:12Z")
Isn’t most popular song about double entendre? Bee Gees: “How Deep Is Your Love?” Fanny: “We had four on the floor, I was ready to clutch I said, ‘Give me some more.’ He said, ‘You’re too much For my inclination.’ I didn’t need no time Or destination.” Don’t remember who: Song Telephone Man “Hey baby I’m your telephone man I can put it in the hallway I can put in by the door etc. . .” Kenny Chesney: “she thinks my tractor’s sexy it really turns her on she’s always starin’ at me while i’m chuggin’ along she likes the way it’s pullin’ while we’re tillin’ up the land she’s even kinda crazy 'bout my farmer’s tan she’s the only one who really understands what gets me she thinks my tractor’s sexy” Led Zepplin: “Hey hey mama gonna make you move Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove” And that’s without trying. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/43 "2005-12-15T19:08:11Z")
There’s Ruth Brown’s classic blues song, “If I Can’t Sell It”: > [@](#): > > If I can’t sell it, I’m gonna sit down on it. I ain’t gonna give it away. > Now darling if you want it, you’re gonna have to buy it. And I mean just what I say. > Now how would you like to find this waitin at home for you every night. > Only been used once or twice but it’s still nice and TIGHT! Of course, it’s really about a chair, right? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/44 "2005-12-15T19:17:14Z")
Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/45 "2005-12-15T19:36:44Z")
First, **Larry Mudd** : kudos, and ignore these peasants! 🙂 Second, is there a rock or blues or r&b or rockabilly or even country & western song that _isn’t_ a double entendre if you look at it sniggeringly enough? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/46 "2005-12-15T20:14:59Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize. 😛 You mean all the marijuana references? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/47 "2005-12-15T20:20:20Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > I know Peter, Paul and Mary consistently denied that _Puff the Magic Dragon_ was about marijuana, but I’m not buyin’ it. First time I’m ever disagreeing with you, **FBG**! It was about the loss of innocence! Sheesh…read the lyrics, there’s nothing in there about smoking except for the title. :mad: As I say this, there’s probably a press release coming out right now with a true confession. I went off and read the lyrics to “Turning Japanese” and I don’t see why Turning Japanese means masturbation or even falling in love…anyone care to explain? Also, before it comes up, Lewis Carrol was not on LSD when he wrote Alice…LSD hadn’t been synthesized yet. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/48 "2005-12-15T20:26:27Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 and put it away for 5 years. When he took it out and looked at it again in 1943, he thinks he must have absorbed it through his fingers and he tripped. Why he didn’t trip when he first synthesized it has never been explained. This is correct. Incidentally, Hofmann notes that when that first batch was tested on animals, the subjects were observed to become “restless” for a period afterwards. So the _very_ first acid tripper was a critter. Back on topic: we can’t forget the Who’s ode to the accordion, “Squeeze Box.” “It goes in and out and in and out and in and out and…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/49 "2005-12-15T20:30:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I went off and read the lyrics to “Turning Japanese” and I don’t see why Turning Japanese means masturbation or even falling in love…anyone care to explain? It’s a guy thing. Think facial expression. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/50 "2005-12-15T20:56:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Also, before it comes up, Lewis Carrol was not on LSD when he wrote Alice…LSD hadn’t been synthesized yet. Ah, but Lewis Carroll actually invented it in 1863, and made cryptic statements denying it in the _Alice_ books. > [@](#): > > “I don’t believe that pudding ever WAS cooked! In fact, I don’t believe that pudding ever WILL be cooked! And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent.” > > “What did you mean it to be made of?” Alice asked, hoping to cheer him up, for the poor Knight seemed quite low-spirited about it. > > “It began with blotting paper,” the Knight answered with a groan. > > "That wouldn’t be very nice, I’m afraid – " > > “Not very nice ALONE,” he interrupted, quite eagerly: "but you’ve no idea what a difference it makes mixing it with other things – " He let his guard down a bit and made reference to the formula in _Dynamics of a Parti-cle_: > [@](#): > > The effect of Differentiation on a Particle is very remarkable, the first differential being frequently of greater value than the original particle, and the second of less enlightenment. > > For example, let L = “Leader”, S = “Saturday”, and then LS = “Leader in the Saturday” (a particle of no assignable value). Differentiating once, we get L.S.D., a function of great value. Similarly it will be found that, by taking the second Differential of an enlightened Particle (_i.e._, raising it to the Degree D.D.), the enlightenment becomes rapidly less. Of course it’s no coincidence that Humpty Dumpty, Alice, and Carroll are referenced on nearly every page of _Finnegans Wake_, as well. _Here Comes Everybody!_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/51 "2005-12-15T21:58:06Z")
[list=] [li]\*Finnegans Wake \*is spelled without an apostrophe.[/li][li]Apropos of exactly nothing, I am actually one of the few people who has actually read _Finnegans Wake_ cover to cover. (I named my reading group’s mailing list “Here Comes Everbody.”)[/li][/list] ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/52 "2005-12-15T23:22:02Z")
Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch Record”? I don’t think it’s entirely about a record. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/53 "2005-12-16T02:02:48Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > First time I’m ever disagreeing with you, **FBG**! It was about the loss of innocence! Sheesh…read the lyrics, there’s nothing in there about smoking except for the title. :mad: Well, it’s possible I may be wrong. I have been wrong before, and in fact I frequently am wrong. Even [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm) says I am wrong. It just seemed like too much of a coincidence that the song would be about **Puff** the Magic Dragon, with his friend little Jackie **Paper**. And the bit about “Painted wings and giant rings give way to other toys” meaning that Jackie went on to harder drugs. In my defense, I am not the only one to have thought this. **Anaamika** , I bow to your superior wisdom. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/54 "2005-12-16T02:09:42Z")
> [@circus electrique](#): > > Larry Mudd, your being a smart ass proves little more than your ability to be a smart ass. If you’ve got a decent argument, let’s hear it. If you’re going to be smart ass, how about you confine it to about a paragraph? **Circus electrique** : I realize that I’m getting to this 12 hours later, but… Personal Insults are NOT permitted in this forum. It is possible to disagree with someone without calling them names. You will kindly refrain from such outbursts in the future. If you feel that you must call someone rude names, go to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/55 "2005-12-16T03:38:33Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize. 😛 I guess that would include Michael Bluth and his neice Maebe when they sang it as a duet at the office Christmas party. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/56 "2005-12-16T03:52:40Z")
**The Fugs - Boobs a lot** Do you like boobs a lot? (Yes, I like boobs a lot.) Boobs a lot, boobs a lot. (You gotta like boobs a lot.) Really like boobs a lot. (You gotta like boobs a lot.) Boobs a lot, boobs a lot. (You gotta like boobs a lot.) **The Who - Squeeze Box** Mama’s got a squeeze box She wears on her chest And when Daddy comes home He never gets no rest 'Cause she’s playing all night And the music’s all right Mama’s got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/57 "2005-12-16T05:19:41Z")
Look no further than rock and roll’s first hit record, **Shake Rattle and Roll** : “I’m like a one eyed cat, peepin’ in the seafood store, I’m like a one eyed cat, peepin’ in the seafood store, I can look at you until you don’t love me no more!” That’s dirty! ---
**Author:** ![Montanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Montanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montanna)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/58 "2005-12-16T06:31:11Z")
Wow. I had completely forgotten about the wonders of lyrics. Thanks to all for refreshing me. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/59 "2005-12-16T10:25:26Z")
> [@](#): > > The Fugs - Boobs a lot > > Do you like boobs a lot? > (Yes, I like boobs a lot.) > Boobs a lot, boobs a lot. > (You gotta like boobs a lot.) > Really like boobs a lot. > (You gotta like boobs a lot.) > Boobs a lot, boobs a lot. > (You gotta like boobs a lot.) This seems rather like a single entendre unless you think it refers to a predeliction for the companionship of idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/60 "2005-12-16T11:20:43Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > The effect of Differentiation on a Particle is very remarkable, the first differential being frequently of greater value than the original particle, and the second of less enlightenment. > > > > For example, let L = “Leader”, S = “Saturday”, and then LS = “Leader in the Saturday” (a particle of no assignable value). Differentiating once, we get L.S.D., a function of great value. Similarly it will be found that, by taking the second Differential of an enlightened Particle (i.e., raising it to the Degree D.D.), the enlightenment becomes rapidly less. Isn’t this (particularly the remark ‘of great value’) more likely a reference to the English currency symbols of the time? - Pounds (£ or L), Shillings (s) and pence (d, from _denarius_). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691.md?page=4)