Did you nod off for a while, there? (Not so’s I’d blame you.)
Gosh it’s years since I heard that (on the radio of my very first car, as it happens), but that song’s a single entendre if I ever heard one!
Let’s not forget “I Like My Chicken Fryin’ Size” by the late, great Merle Travis:
I like my chicken frying size,
Hangin’ ‘round my pen
Young and tender and not too wise
Like some old stewin’ hen
Who has seen the lot
Of every rooster that you’ve got
That’s why I like my chicken fryin’ size
When I get my skillet hot!
I’m your ice cream man, stop me when I’m passing by.
I’m your ice cream man, stop me when I’m passing by.
All my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy.
I’m layin pipe, all night long
laying pipe,
to satisfy that woman.
David Wilcox
In the process, ruining the innocent memories of my childhood!
Damn right you will.
I can’t believe I forgot this one:
Baby let me bang your box – Read the lyrics to see that it is indeed double and not single
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman it’s hard.
Hmm. I don’t know. She shows up with fried chicken and jug o’ sweet tea. I take this one at face value, unless they are really kinky with the foodstuffs.
Blondie: “I’ll give you some head…and shoulders to cry on…”
And the one-hit wonder “Detachable Penis” from the 1990s band “King Missile” (d’ya THINK that their name might even be a double-entendre?) :
“I told my friends that if my detachable penis pops up somewhere to let me know…”
and
“Having a detachable penis can sometimes be a real pain in the ass…”
Bob Seger:
But oh they love to watch her strut
Oh they do respect her but(t)
They love to watch her strut
It works the other way too, I suppose.
I’ve heard that in Bryan Adam’s “Run to You”, he’s not actually singing about cheating on his significant other-- he’s actually referring to his guitar.
Wasn’t he smoking opium?
Larry Mudd, you totally rock. Thanks for taking my brain on a literary funhouse ride. Just brilliant. Why does Canada have all the luck? What can you do with Robertson Davies?
Johanna ( <–Canadaphile)
In the song “Friction” by Television, Tom Verlaine sings
"… and you complain about my DIC-
tion."
It was such a blatant, even trashy joke that the result he was probably after was women turning to each other to ask “Did he really SAY that?”
It’s usual for male rockers to praise their own penises in song, but I found it refreshing to hear a woman singing her feminine charms, that’s why I quoted Merril Bainbridge. “Garden in My Room” is one of the sexiest songs ever, but in her other sexy song when she sings “When I kiss your mouth I wanna taste it,” that’s entirely single entendre.
A friend of mine told me that there was this song, a commonly heard song on the radio in the 80’s that was clearly about masturbation, and he remembered it had some lyric about wearing a ring, but he couldn’t remember which song it was. I kept my ears open, but never happened to hear the one.
Finally, 30 years later the mystery is solved. Thank you.
I’m glad some good came out of this 2005 thread being bumped by a spammer.
25 years, and 5 years as a zombie. Sorry all, I read it off the front page and quoted and posted when I hit the mystery lyric. I didn’t realize that this was zombie reanimated by the smell of spam.
Genie in a bottle by Christina Aguilera " My body says lets go, but my heart says no. "
And twice as cool, certainly twice as toe-tapping, as any other song in this thread.
And, oh yes, twice as toe-tapping as “Finnegans Wake”.
A lot of the old blues songs that crossed over into Rock and Roll were quite dirty or suggestive, with this one being particularly dirty and was rather cleaned up for Bill Haley’s version. But this line somehow made it through; did they think it was oblique enough for the censors to not notice once all the other highly suggestive material was excised?