@roxy54: Thank you for the correction! Crown Of Creation remains a long-time favorite! Bought my first copy back in the late Sixties! That one's long-gone but I have a new pristine re-issue (that sounds fine!).
More completely, "laid him on the green" was misheard as "Lady Mondegreen." As described in the article I linked to in my previous post:
In November, 1954, Sylvia Wright, an American writer, published a piece in Harper's where
she admitted to a gross childhood mishearing. When she was young, her
mother would read to her from the “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” a
1765 book of popular poems and ballads. Her favorite verse began with
the lines, “Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands / Oh, where hae ye been? / They
hae slain the Earl Amurray, / And Lady Mondegreen.” Except they hadn’t.
They left the poor Earl and “laid him on the green.” He was, alas, all
by himself.
roberjerman, That's a great Airplane song, but the words actually go: Lather was 30 years old today, they took away all of his toys. His mother sent newspaper clippings to him about his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
Another line from a song I needed to decipher for everyone at the time ( the only line in the song ) : One of These Days from P.F. Meddle. No one could believe Nick Mason was saying " I'm going to cut you into little pieces ". Enjoy ! MrD.
n80, I just tried Blanton's for the first time several months ago...that's good stuff! I haven't liked Jack for a long time, too harsh, but I really like Jim Beam Black Label too. Al, I heard the "kiss this guy" thing years ago, and always took it as a joke, I never thought anyone actually took it to be the real lyric. I never heard that version of the Shocking Blue lyric...that's funny. Here's one for you. A DJ in Philly in the late 80's was playing the Police song "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and he said it sounded like Sting was saying "I'll eat rats around your finger", and I swear, if you listen to it on a low resolution system, or ideally, on the radio, it really sounds like that's what he's saying. geoffkait, It's actually not bad. You should try it.
@n80, I do see your post as tongue in cheek now. My apologies...….having the best stereo between myself and all of my buddies at the time, I needed to decipher the proper wording of songs ( as well as your 2nd example ). I need to loosen up a bit. Enjoy ! MrD.
mrdecibel, it was completely tongue-in-cheek. I always heard it as "kiss the sky" but when someone told me they heard it as "kiss this guy" I noticed that they are very very close. Although I was never a sky kisser....I don't think gin counts...once you hear "kiss this guy" it kind of sticks.
My wife ruined Jack Daniels for me when she pointed out that it has a distinct smell of banana. I'd never noticed it before but now I can't get past it. To get her back I now only drink Blanton's. ;-)
Likewise with Bad Moon Rising. Fogerty is obviously saying "There's a bad moon on the rise" but some radio DJ heard it differently and I always thought that was funny.
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawling out as I was a-crawling in I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my mind I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
@almarg I do not believe it was tongue in cheek. I always heard it as kiss the sky, but I had an excellent phono front end, and system, as I indicated. And not to mention, I, too, was kissing the sky back then. I know about the mondegreen theory. Enjoy ! MrD.
I
suspect that n80's post was said tongue-in-cheek, as the non-lyrics he
quoted could indeed be how the real lyrics are heard when the songs are
listened to in a casual manner. A couple of additional examples in a similar
vein:
"Oh A Tree In Motion" -- Johnny Tillotson "I'm Your P---- (um, Venus), I'm Your Fire" -- Shocking Blue
"When the wind picked up, the fire spread and the grapevine seemed left for dead, and the northern sky, looked like the end of days, a wake-up call to a rented room sounded like an alarm of impending doom, to a warn us It's only a matter of time before we all burn,
we bought some wine, and some paper cups near your daughter's school, when we picked her up, and drove to the cemetery on a hill, where we watched the plums paint the sky grey as she laughed and danced through the fields of graves, and there I knew it would be alright.. that everything would be alright"..
" Gotta hurry on back to my hotel room, where I got me a date with Botticelli's neice, she promised she'd be right there with me, when I paint my masterpiece."
The Dead does an outstanding version of this on their Dozin at the Knick cd.
"I wanted the ocean to cover over me I wanna sink slowly without getting wet Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely And I'll walk on water every chance I get"
"Roland searched the continent for the man who did him in He found him in Mombasa in a barroom drinking gin Roland aimed his Thompson gun, he didn't say a word But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg."
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky With one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate Driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow
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