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?

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

Craig David 7 days. I always thought it was "in jail on sunday" until I heard it very recently on the radio and doubted myself

(Nugent is a surname in Ireland)

It absolutely is Tromboleese.

Marconi plays the mamba

still no idea what that means. Marconi invented the radio maybe something to do with that 🤷🏻‍♀️

I knew her lover had his strong beliefs. But I've spent the last 25 years singing "freed from desire, modern senses purified" which I'm pretty sure isn't right.

I love these! I thought for ages that the song ‘I Drove All Night’ starts ‘I had to escape the city, was stuck in Crewe’, but apparently it’s ‘sticky and cruel’. (Before anyone says it, I know Crewe is actually a town )

@Poopootatty I thought source of passion too!!

It's Marconi (the inventor of radio) who played the Mamba, not Napoleon!

When this was in the charts I asked the DC if she was singing "Are, are we, always, always having salad" and they assured me that those were the lyrics. Little liars! Although the actual lyrics don't make a whole lot of sense either.

Apparently nice day for a wedding was ment to mean something different ? Not sure how true it is.

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 "got a noose, got a noose, when you do the fandango "
What is a scaramouch anyway?

scaramouche

Apparently it's "rock the cazbah" not "Dr Pepper"

Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you… makes sense doesn’t it, like a picnic or something so you don’t get hungry 😂

@StanleyTheCrane “ some underworld spy or the wife of a postman.” That’s what I hear too!

We used to sing “You picked a fine time to leave me loo sealed”

The Fun Lovin' Criminals song 'Big Night Out' has the line 'cocaine makes you thinner' which puzzled me for years as I heard it as 'cooking makes you thinner' which seemed to make no sense 🤔

I can't think of any of my own that haven't already been mentioned (perhaps I haven't realised yet !)

My friend at school used to sing 'the wombles are wimbling, common are we' 😂

Also, we were listening to Disney songs in the car a while ago and my mum asked what a beax was in The Bear Necessities (if you act like that bee acts) 🐝

And when my sister was about 7, she was singing along to Summertime by Will Smith 'time to sip on Pimm's and wine' 😆🍷

@Garagewonderings

Freed from desire
Mind and senses purified

I thought the exact same thing re: trombolees. I discovered the true lyrics only at Easter when I was in a gym in Spain which played a weird cover version where the lyrics were clearer 🤷‍♀️

As a child I never got the point of the song ‘ee o ee o o let them know it’s Christmas time’. Made so much more sense when I learned the actual lyrics

I’m convinced that Sugar by Maroon 5 is “when I’m without you I’m soaked in wee” much to my kids amusement! I can’t hear it any other way.

I never understood why Bob Marley thought it would be great to 'be together with a roof rack over our heads'.