# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/82 "2011-04-17T21:22:00Z")
Georgia. Is it about a state or a girl? ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/83 "2011-04-17T21:54:34Z")
From the song Top Dead Center, about the local scooter club (aka TDC): Holly likes to ride with TDC and she comes as fast as she can A 4-stroke engine doesn’t suit her needs So she’s looking for a 2-stroke man Clever, no? © 2011 by me. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/84 "2011-04-17T22:27:15Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Also, before it comes up, Lewis Carrol was not on LSD when he wrote Alice…LSD hadn’t been synthesized yet. Shrooms… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/85 "2011-04-17T22:46:32Z")
Keep On Churnin’ by Wynonie Harris Keep on churnin’ til the butter comes Keep on churnin’ til the butter comes Keep on churnin’ let the butter pour Wipe off the paddle and churn some more ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/86 "2011-04-18T04:47:49Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > As Og is my witness, this hadn’t been posted when I responded. Get outta my brain, **Trunk**. “Anyone who’s done enough LSD will tell you all about the weird stuff it does to time.” --Harry Mudd ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/87 "2011-04-18T05:09:31Z")
Also timely is that this bit in the OP: > [@Leaffan](#): > > The Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” is about tripping on LSD (as recently confirmed by Sr. Paul.) Has been in the news recently but [once again been refuted.](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/lennon-s-lucy-in-the-sky-draft-goes-on-sale-telegraph-says.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/88 "2011-04-18T05:41:33Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What other songs have these “supposed” hidden meanings? Especially ones that managed to escape the puritanical censors? So far, I haven’t found anyone who can actually say just WHAT the lyrics are supposed to be in “Louie, Louie.” But my first thought was “Strokin’” by Clarence Carter. Then again, ain’t nothing hidden in his meaning. In 1967, Nancy Sinatra came out with a song called “Summer Wine.” The little south GA town I lived in wouldn’t play it. I had to pick it up from a north FL radio station. Summer wine was apparently her body and she was a hooker. Another one was Ladybird: “Lightning flashed across the sky, the night he taught me how to fly. The sun came up and then I found, too soon he let his lady down…” Jim Morrison (the Doors), though, was a master of the metaphor for sex. “Enclose me in your gentle rain…” from the Crystal Ship. Or how about… “Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen; Warm my mind near your gentle stove. Turn me out and I’ll wander, baby, Stumblin’ in the neon groves …” ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/89 "2011-04-18T06:54:38Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > From the song Top Dead Center, about the local scooter club (aka TDC): > > Holly likes to ride with TDC > and she comes as fast as she can > A 4-stroke engine doesn’t suit her needs > So she’s looking for a 2-stroke man > > Clever, no? © 2011 by me. Yes clever indeed. One of my favorites. 😉 “'Cause chicks dig 'em!” ---
**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/90 "2011-04-18T07:21:39Z")
But she never lost her head Even when she was givin’ head She said, Hey Babe, Take a walk on the wild side… ~ Lou Reed, 1972 Not a hidden meaning, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/91 "2011-04-18T14:11:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Jackson Browne’s “Rosie” - It takes a second, but then you realize that it’s about masturbation. > > _Rosie, you’re alright. > (You wear my ring.) > When you hold me tight. > (Baby that’s my thing.) > When you turn out the light, I’ve got to hand it to me. > It looks like it’s me and you again tonight, Rosie._ I’ve mentioned this before, but Jackson Browne’s “Redneck Friend” is equally, if not more deceptive: _Honey you shake and I’ll rattle and we’ll roll on down the line And see if we can’t get in touch with a very close friend of mine But let me clue you in, it ain’t like him To argue or pretend Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend_ ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/92 "2011-04-19T07:07:45Z")
The Pretty Things released a song called L.S.D. in 1966. They swore that they were referring to pounds, shillings, and pence. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/93 "2011-04-19T10:30:04Z")
[wrong post.] ---
**Author:** ![whitewall21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whitewall21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitewall21)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/94 "2011-04-19T10:52:50Z")
Just playing some [solitaire-harmony](http://www.gameduell.com/solitaire-harmony.html) and listening to Against Me! - I was a teenage Anarchist and wondering if there’s a double meaning because Gabel sings “the revolution was a lie”. Maybe it’s not about anarchy and revolution and just a song about teens who think they could change the world by believing in anarchy… ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/95 "2011-04-19T10:55:48Z")
I heard in high school that the little baby in The Talking Heads’ “Stay Up All Night” isn’t juuust a baby… ---
**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:** [April 19, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/96 "2011-04-19T12:41:29Z")
“Sister, sister, he’s just a plaything…” Ewwwwwwwwww. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691/97 "2011-04-19T16:21:01Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Also timely is that this bit in the OP: > Has been in the news recently but [once again been refuted.](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/lennon-s-lucy-in-the-sky-draft-goes-on-sale-telegraph-says.html) It just says that Lennon always disputed it and that a woman named Lucy claimed to have been the inspiration for it. Both of these are old claims (obviously wrt John) so I wouldn’t characterize them as “again been refuted.” Sir Paul said in 2004 that it was “pretty obvious” that the song was about LSD. I don’t think that he would have contradicted Lennon unless he was confident in his statement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-hidden-double-entendre-meanings/335691.md?page=4)