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- From: kasprj@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: Mangled song lyrics (was: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age)
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:14:35 GMT
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- I can't resist adding a few of my own...
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- The spoken line from Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" has spawned more
- creative interpretations than I can remember. The official version is
- "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces", but I know
- a few people who insist it was "One of these days I'm going to dance
- with kings and queens."
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- Also from Pink Floyd, at the end of "Another Brick in the Wall", where
- the schoolmaster is shouting something: I always thought he was saying
- "Go home! Shoot the kids!" I've been told that it's actually "Wrong!
- Do it again!" but even after seeing the lyric sheets I don't quite buy
- it. There are _two_ syllables in that first phrase.
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- From Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody": the line "Beelzebub has a devil put
- aside for me" was often rendered by my high school friends as "The
- algebra has a devil for a son..." (they didn't know what it was supposed
- to mean either.)
-
- And finally, who can forget the classic lines from Creedence Clearwater
- Revival:
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- "Don't go round the knife,
- It's bound to take your light,
- There's a bathroom on the right."
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