I've just learned if it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe..

[StanleyTheCrane]

He'd have been married a long time ago and not buried a long time ago. I thought that CEJ had saved his life, not stolen all of the women.

Also that he came to town like a Mid-Winter storm, not like a movie star.

Has anyone else had any lyric related revelations lately?

Ha, today I learned also!

I always wondered why Wiess was always singing about, feel my knees.

How the heck do you hear buried? 😀that's fair cheered me up

Apparently Meatloaf wasn't "gonna hit the highway like a bat outta hell or a Cilla Black fan on ice" but on a Silver Black Phantom bike.
Who'd have thought it?

I've said this one before but I spent a good amount of years idly wondering what a "Tromboleese" was in the lyric "my love has got no money, he's got his tromboleese". Turns out it's "strong beliefs" I'm slightly disappointed tbh.

"Israeli men" always makes me laugh and also "young farmer..."!

And apparently Kenny Rogers wasn't actually left with four hundred children and a crop in the field....

I only learned recently that Cotton Eye Joe is about STDs .

I used to hear The Kooks song as ‘I know she knows I’m not from Nebraska’ instead of ‘I know she knows I’m not fond of asking’ which makes a whole lot more sense.

bohemian rhapsody. I always thought it was “has a devil for a sideboard”.

This! Mind blown

Chop the goolie island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita

I always wondered why Wiess was always singing about, feel my knees.

I love this!

How the heck do you hear buried? 😀that's fair cheered me up

I do have an auditory processing disorder but I blame the singers' accents. I still can't make out half of the lyrics and don't get me started on Pop In An Oak.

I used to think that Desmond Decker was singing about the hills are alive and not the Israelites!

Apparently there is not a grim haberdasher and he's 45

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you. it's just no good
You’re cheesy like a dipper 😂

You're all making me feel so much better now.

I also thought that Neil Diamond was singing about The Reverend Blue Jeans.

That the city boy in Don't Stop Believing was born and raised in softer trust, not South Detroit

and that the man in You're So Vain was with some underworld spy or the wife of a postman.

I couldn’t understand why Katy Perry kept banging on about ‘cherry chopsticks’
turns out it’s ‘cherry chapstick’!

the titanic theme sings about ‘how the hot dogs will go on’

my dd (then about 7) loved singing along to Katy perrys ‘roar’
her version was ‘I’ve got the arse of a tiger and your gonna hear me roooaaarrr!’,

Reminds me of this ad

Katie Perry is a champion, but not louder than a "loud thing". Apparently she's louder than a lion.🦁

What! It's not arse of a tiger

@LadyFlumpalot I've genuinely wondered what a trombolise was for such a long time. I assumed it was a fancy trombone 😂😂😂😂

Macy Gray says... I wore goggles when you're near.... In I Try. Kids and I always have a chuckle that, it sounds so like that!

the Lord of the Dance Settee.. anyone else?

OP, I thought Neil Diamond sang Reverend Blue Jeans too

Thanks OP some underworld spy is so much classier than someone who will spy.

Oh the joys of growing up listening to cheap tinny radios!

Lord of the dance setter is just silly. Everyone knows it's lord of the lavatory.