Rigoletto. “Rigotello” sounds like pasta.
You mean it isn’t? Seriously? What’s is about?
My pants are behind me!
As a resident of NC in the early 80s, I was at quite a few Arrogance concerts. Their bassist and vocalist, Don Dixon, went on to a solo career and noted work as a producer. One of Dixon’s solo tracks was “Your Sister Told Me,” a bouncy pop tune that I enjoy hearing.
But…I have never figured out what he’s singing in the chorus. Two of the four lines are pretty obvious. What the heck he’s singing in the other two has been a complete mystery to me for over 40 years. I used to think one line may be, “Oh, I’ve seen the light most days without you,” but I later decided I was wrong. And I have other recordings of the same song, both by Dixon solo and Arrogance as a group, where the chorus seems to be completely different words.
Most lyrics sites offer a selection of garbled phrases followed by a big question mark.
Well, I still think it means that (I wouldn’t presume to speak for Crissy Hynde). In my opinion, some misheard lyrics really impact the meaning of a song, but I think ‘hamster nursey’ fits right in there. To be fair ‘Hamstead Nursey’ is a pretty regional reference that I wouldn’t have understood even if I’d heard it.
Pants!
I’m with you.
The video shows people crashing a dance performance holding random political-appearing signs (stop b.t.a. now? “N.L.P.”?), making this American think the band is mocking political poseurs and dilettantes, but this:
Like fat cats driving 'round in jeeps through the city
Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids
And man, I don’t mean a Hampstead nursery
But when you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World
The babies just come with the scenery
Doesn’t seem to admit an interpretation other than “captialist excess in the face of abject poverty”. Even if I don’t know what a hamster nursery is.
Sorry. I meant the vocal bridge of “Your Sister Told Me,” not the chorus.
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends
One man likes to push a plow
The other likes to kiss a cow
But that’s not reason why they can’t be friends
Territory folks should stick together
Territory folks should all be pals
Cowman dance with the farmer’s daughter
Farmer dance with a wretched cow!
Another one:
You give me beavers when you kiss me
Beavers when you hold me tight
BEAVERS!
The Sound Of Music is playing now on TCM.
Yes, when I was little I thought it was ‘Tea, a drink with Jan and Fred’.
One I just remembered, from years ago.
When I was a little kid I listened to the soundtrack of Mary Poppins over and over. I loved that album. But in one song, I didn’t understand why they mentioned my cousin Doris several times.
The song was “Sister Suffragette”, and the lyrics, I now know, go like this:
“Our daughters’ daughters will adore us”
And they’ll sing in grateful chorus
Well done, Sister Suffragette.
That’s gonna be in my head, with Katie Nana trying to quit while they’re singing it, for the rest of the night.
Our daughters’ daughters will Doris?
Yeah. Bear in mind, I was about 7 years old. The meaning of the whole song went way over my head.
Oh oh oh, it’s my dick…
Never you leave you dumb ho!
I wanna hoomph you, and how!
Well I will, well I will…
Ha ha, yes!
I know Cynthia says “all the squares go home” but I keep hearing “all the squares roll out”. Which sounds better, IMO.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Actual Lyric: “A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh”
I hear: “A weiner whack a weiner whack, a weiner whack, a weiner whack”
My wife always heard Orleans song “Dance with me” lyric incorrectly.
Actual: Night is calling and I am falling
Her version: Night is calling and I am bored.
???
Not ‘O-ream-away’? (But what would he be building in the jungle that needs de-burring?)