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- Lemon Slice
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Lyrics
Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.
Thanks
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.
Thanks
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Re: Lyrics
Imbiber wrote:
Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify.
The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
There's a similar conundrum in the epic Half Man Half Biscuit song, Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train)...
When they sing -
Time flies by when you're a driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine
Regarding that second line, do you think they're talking about a heavily laden goods wagon, or a driver that's perhaps taken too much Columbian marching powder on this particular journey?
Let it happen, bass player...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNMTa7Yd3E
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
p.s - I'm going for 'Strap yourself to a tree that 'has' roots'....
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Re: Lyrics
Imbiber wrote:Cooking dinner tonight (sweet potato with red lentil dhal) listening to favorites on Spotify. The Byrds. You ain't going no where. Lyrics are. Strap yourself to a tree with roots.
So does it mean strap yourself to a tree that has roots with some form of straps. Or does it mean strap yourself to a tree using roots.
Please help me to solve this conundrum.
I have been in imbibing, I'll get me coat.
Thanks
I think you're mistaking 'roots' with 'Roots' as in Levi Roots, the musician and purveyor of something called 'Reggae Reggae sauce'. That would make a lot more sense. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one.
HTH
RC
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Re: Lyrics
UncleEbenezer wrote:Many (most?) lyrics are best when misheard.
c.f. Lady Mondegreen.
The best mis-hear is this one:
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"
~ Hendrix ~
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Re: Lyrics
Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "I remove umbilicals"?
Or Robert Palmer's “Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?
A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "Mummy is the root of all evil".
BJ
Or Robert Palmer's “Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?
A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "Mummy is the root of all evil".
BJ
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Re: Lyrics
bungeejumper wrote:Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "I remove umbilicals"?
Not anyone who heard Madonna "chop the goolie"...
GS
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Re: Lyrics
[/i]bungeejumper wrote:Who could forget Hot Chocolate's "[i]I remove umbilicals"?
Or Robert Palmer's “Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”?
A personal blast from the past, though. Going back about sixty years now (oh god), I remember some woman writing in a magazine about how she'd heard her daughter wandering around the house singing "Mummy is the root of all evil".
BJ
Anyone else remembering Terry Wogan deciphering the lyrics of "You don't have to say you love me ........." c.early seventies
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Re: Lyrics
And then there's Candi Staton in "You've Got The Love", sometimes seems to be singing
"Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air".
"Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air".
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Re: Lyrics
Many years ago a little girl asks her mother, "Mummy, what's ubay? "
Perplexed, her mother asks where she heard it.
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A man on the radio sang " I've got ubay" .
Perplexed, her mother asks where she heard it.
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A man on the radio sang " I've got ubay" .
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Re: Lyrics
GrahamPlatt wrote:https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8?si=UpckHv5tbHvKWQ1P
Peter Kay on the same subject.
Just let me staple the vicar
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