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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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Vicliz24 · 19/05/2022 20:48

The marbles that you ett are not standing safely in Charley Pride's hall

GlitchStitch · 19/05/2022 20:49

I thought Taylor Swift had a lot of Starbucks lovers, not a long list of ex lovers 😕

Patty101 · 19/05/2022 20:50

@LadyFlumpalot WTF?! I used to hear this when I was a kid and think that 'trombalise' must have been something really rude because I'd never heard of it before, but was too embarrassed to ask my mum what it meant.

God knows why I've never thought to Google it as a fully fledged grown up. Well, they do say you learn something new every day.

WonderingWanda · 19/05/2022 20:50

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.

😂Oh no it was a Tromoline!

scrivette · 19/05/2022 20:50

It's not Reverend Blue Jeans?!

I also thought Meatloaf was singing about Cilla Black until I read it on a similar Mumsnet Thread.

calmlakes · 19/05/2022 20:50

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 thought exactly the same until I just read this. 😂

NeedToKnow101 · 19/05/2022 20:50

Isausernameavailable · 19/05/2022 20:48

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

😂😂😂

No.. it was the Wombles of Wimbledon, come when you wee

(I can actually remember sitting on the potty waiting for them to show up. Bastards never arrived. Potty got stuck to my arse I was there so long)

HangingOver · 19/05/2022 20:51

Apparently it's Jeux Sans Frontier not She's So Popular...

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StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 20:51

I love all of these and I too thought that it was a tromboleese.

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TheFoxAndTheStar · 19/05/2022 20:52

Another vote for tromboleese here, and now I am questioning my whole life 😂

Seriously, tromboleese is not a thing?

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StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 20:53

It's not Reverend Blue Jeans?!

Apparently it's "Forever In Blue Jeans" but I just listened to the song and it still sounds like The Reverend Blue Jeans.

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PollysPockets · 19/05/2022 20:53

When I was a kid I thought that macey grey sang 'i blow bubbles when you are not here' instead of 'my world crumbles when you are not here' 🤷

Svalberg · 19/05/2022 20:53

ElenaSt · 19/05/2022 20:32

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

That's the song that starts:

"I fell in love with some bagels"

and mentions the young girl with eyes like potatoes

GlitchStitch · 19/05/2022 20:53

Also Tupac is definitely talking about the city of Colchester not Compton.

TheFoxAndTheStar · 19/05/2022 20:53

What the hell is it, if it’s not Reverend Blue Jeans???

LadyFlumpalot · 19/05/2022 20:54

For all the people who are new to the Tromboleese revelation...

I've just learned if it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe..
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StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 20:55

What the hell is it, if it’s not Reverend Blue Jeans???

Forever in blue jeans.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who hears it that way.

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mubarak86 · 19/05/2022 20:55

In a previous thread someone thought it was Rhythm is a dancer, it's a sauce companion 🤣

Bellagio40 · 19/05/2022 20:55

TheFoxAndTheStar · 19/05/2022 20:53

What the hell is it, if it’s not Reverend Blue Jeans???

Forever in blue jeans?

notacooldad · 19/05/2022 20:56

And apparently Kenny Rogers wasn't actually left with four hundred children and a crop in the field....
Really? Are you sure? :)

ThatPosterIsSoRight · 19/05/2022 20:56

Many years ago in France there was a town playing Enya’s Sail Away over the tannoy at Christmas, on repeat.

Turns out they thought it was ‘C’est Noël”!

Bellagio40 · 19/05/2022 20:56

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 thought he was singing “Me ears are alight”

MayorDusty · 19/05/2022 20:57

Public service announcement.
Rhianna did not find love in a homeless place.
Or any kind of shelter.

SoggyPaper · 19/05/2022 20:59

NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 19/05/2022 20:24

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

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.

I always heard it as ‘not from the roskilde’, which makes even less sense. 🤣

i did realise I was wrong though.

TheAntiGardener · 19/05/2022 21:02

We listened to a lot of Dire Straits cassettes in the car when I was a child. The line “I was made to go with my girl / Just like a fax-phone was made to go with the night” always put me in mind of Gordon Gecko types working through the night in a Manhattan skyscraper - it was the 80s, so very plausible.

Turns out it’s saxophones that go with the night.