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- From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: Mangled song lyrics (was: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age)
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- Organization: Clark University
- Date: 30 DEC 92 04:55:27 GMT
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- Keith Morgan writes, regarding the mishearing of song lyrics:
-
- >The second one is prison, babe, and the sheriff's on my tail
- >And if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail
- > Or?
- >The first one's named sweet Ann Marie and she's my heart's delight
- >The second one is prison bait and the sheriff's on my tail
-
- Hey, that ain't nuthin'. Try these on for size (yes, I actually know people
- who have admitted to these):
-
- Bee Gees' "More Than A Woman" = "Bald Headed Woman"
- "Bald headed woman, bald headed woman to me..."
-
- [Some odious pop star's] "Feelings" = "Felix"
- "Felix, nothing more than Felix,
- Trying to forget my
- Felix of love..."
-
- Barry Manilow's "Looks Like We Made It" = "Looks Like Tomatoes"
- You might need to have a New Yawk accent for that one ("timmaydas").
-
- But the best one comes from my friend Katie Mailer (daughter of Norman --
- okay, so this post is *ever-so-slightly* book-related), a sweet, kind, very
- intense and sincere person. Way back in high school we were listening to the
- radio, and a recently released Rolling Stones song came on. Katie got all
- agitated and exclaimed, "This song is so STUPID! This is the dumbest song!"
- I asked her why, and she said, "Well, the lyrics are really idiotic! I mean,
- 'I'll never be your pizza-burger'! What is that supposed to MEAN?!?!" After
- a while I realized she wasn't kidding. "Katie," I explained, "It's not
- 'pizza-burger'. The song goes 'I'll never be your Beast of Burden'."
-
- I kind of like it as 'pizza-burger', though.
-
- Heather
- HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
-