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

407 replies

StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 19:58

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?

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Ddot · 21/05/2022 06:31

Eating trifles 🤣

linsey2581 · 21/05/2022 06:56

@Basilbrushgotfat Yup! You sure were!

RomComPhooey · 21/05/2022 07:03

I thought it odd to have a song about parrots’ eyes. Paradise makes much more sense. (Coldplay)

Triselly · 21/05/2022 07:05

LadyFlumpalot · 19/05/2022 20:18

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.

I remember as a child hearing this as ‘he’s got his trampoline’. I still prefer this version. Who needs anything else if you’ve got your trampoline?

SaskiaRembrandt · 21/05/2022 07:16

Trivester · 19/05/2022 22:41

Isn’t a trombolese a very small trombone?

“Golden brown, texture like sun, lay me down in my man chinos” he wants to be buried in a particularly masculine pair of beige trousers. Right?

I thought it was 'lays me down with my mancheron'. I didn't know what a mancheron was, but decided it sounded like some type of cigar. And that made sense, he's lying on a beach smoking a cigar. I then found out a mancheron is a short-sleeved shirt, which made less sense but still worked in a beach scenario.

I now know it's not mancheron and that song is not about a day at the seaside.

KandiKane1 · 21/05/2022 07:44

A couple of oldies for you all

"My saving razors gold, and it sings......... cheer up sleepy Jean"

"Scuse me while I kiss this guy"

JanuaryBirthdays · 21/05/2022 08:00

Don't go Jason Waterfalls. Thought it telling Jason not to go, rather than not to go chasing waterfalls.

Rosscameasdoody · 21/05/2022 08:34

ElenaSt · 19/05/2022 20:35

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

I heard it as ‘me ears are alight’!!

thesnailandthewhale · 21/05/2022 08:51

I asked my son to download the song "Cincinnati Falls" ... he looked at me blankly, I said, "You know, the one that goes - And now the day bleeds in Cincinnati Falls, and you're not here, to get me through it all"

Also didn't understand why Calvin Harris thought anyone would be afraid to catch fish but I sang along anyway :)

Sosigsandwich · 21/05/2022 09:36

@CeeceeBloomingdale Mind blown!!!!!

LoopyLube · 21/05/2022 11:52

SaskiaRembrandt · 21/05/2022 07:16

I thought it was 'lays me down with my mancheron'. I didn't know what a mancheron was, but decided it sounded like some type of cigar. And that made sense, he's lying on a beach smoking a cigar. I then found out a mancheron is a short-sleeved shirt, which made less sense but still worked in a beach scenario.

I now know it's not mancheron and that song is not about a day at the seaside.

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Someone's probably said this already but the proper words are "with my mind she runs".

Garfy0505 · 21/05/2022 11:53

Always sung 'i had my first real sex dream' for summer of 69, hubby corrected me a few years ago 😂

JenniferAlisonPhilipaSue · 21/05/2022 12:04

EcafTnuc · 19/05/2022 22:32

Wig wham bam gonna make you my man
wham bam bam gonna set you on fire..

no idea how I thought this but I’ve been singing this since I was a child. DP heard this a few years ago and did a spit take. Obviously now it sounds psychotic but I thought nothing of it

i thought they said "try a little chocolate..."

Fluffychicken22 · 21/05/2022 12:08

@Eggshausted · Yesterday 00:12

REM The sidewinder sleeps tonight. ‘Calling Cheryl Baker, Calling Cheryl Baker….’

I thought it was 'Calling Jamaica, Calling Jamaica...'

WalkerWalking · 21/05/2022 12:47

Garfy0505 · 21/05/2022 11:53

Always sung 'i had my first real sex dream' for summer of 69, hubby corrected me a few years ago 😂

Brings a whole new meaning to the next line: "played it til my fingers bled"..... 🤣🤣🤣

LoopyLube · 21/05/2022 12:54

Garfy0505 · 21/05/2022 11:53

Always sung 'i had my first real sex dream' for summer of 69, hubby corrected me a few years ago 😂

I thought the same! Also he was only 10 in 1969 and that always bothered me.

Sinthie · 21/05/2022 13:06

Apparently Rhianna doesn’t want to love me like I’m a “hot pie”

TheFoxAndTheStar · 21/05/2022 13:13

LoopyLube · 21/05/2022 12:54

I thought the same! Also he was only 10 in 1969 and that always bothered me.

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Erm … you do know it’s not about “summer 1969” don’t you? Acording to Adams it’s the other 69 😂

LoopyLube · 21/05/2022 13:21

TheFoxAndTheStar · 21/05/2022 13:13

Erm … you do know it’s not about “summer 1969” don’t you? Acording to Adams it’s the other 69 😂

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What?! No I didn't know that!

oakleaffy · 21/05/2022 13:35

( Street Life , Randy Crawford)

My Brother heard it as “Street Light.”

oakleaffy · 21/05/2022 13:40

LoopyLube · 21/05/2022 11:52

Someone's probably said this already but the proper words are "with my mind she runs".

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Golden Brown so obviously was a love song to heroin, but was very successful at the time.

notacooldad · 21/05/2022 13:48

Golden Brown so obviously was a love song to heroin, but was very successful at the time
One way to feel old is singing along to it when it’s playing on Asda radio as you browse through the lentil and quinoa section!

NannyGythaOgg · 21/05/2022 13:49

My friend asked me why there were horses on 7th Avenue in Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Boxer'

The actual line
'Just a come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue'

Ludoole · 21/05/2022 13:56

Dual Lipa sing
"I got new rules I gotta em" apparently, but my fella thought it was "I've got a roof on my head".
That's all I hear now.

Trivester · 21/05/2022 13:57

@SaskiaRembrandt I’m now picturing a rather pleasing combination of short sleeved shirt and chinos.