Whilst traveling ALONE, on old 69 Highway, downtown and back, I often sing along to the car radio. Yes, I realize it really isn't radio anymore, it's some kind of playlist thing. In this modern world, you can select what you want to hear, with no advertisements. Mostly, I choose to listen to 60s and 70s rock or soft rock. Anyway, I sing along, belting out those oldies, often quite animatedly.
Well, my Tesla screen prints the titles of the playlist, I've chosen, and rather offhandedly, I noticed, that for the last 40 or so years, I had been misspeaking the title, and lyrics of the Steely Dan Hit, "Reelin' in the Years". Your stellar vocalist here, has been singing "Ease" instead of years. Well. That got me to thinking....what else have I been screwing up?
Plenty, it seems. Everyone has joined in with Dan Fogarty, in "There's a BATHROOM on the RIGHT." I understand that he even sings it that way, sometimes. "out tonight" does sound like "on the right." Aretha belted out "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" and improved every teenagers spelling. However, what I thought was PCP (some kind of pipe) is actually TCB, as in Taking Care of Business. And, that Eagles hit isn't about Granny.....it's "take a load off Fanny."
So, it appears that misspoken lyrics are quite common. Some are definitely changed on purpose, for a laugh, as in that popular Easter Hymn "Up From the Gravy and the Roast", or the popular church song, that my sons changed ......"Finest bread I will provide" adding, "and the meat is chicken fried". So wrong...but amusing. Right?
Anyway, right lyrics or wrong, I'm going to keep on singing.
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All Knowing Lord: Humor makes life so very enjoyable. Sometimes we get too serious. You are always with us. You want us to live life to the fullest. We need to focus on Trust and Obey.
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