Misunderstood Lyrics

Beach Blonde · Post by **Beach Blonde** » March 23, 2004 9:20 pm

snuff queen.....(WDWGD&S)

I understood he was saying "snuff queen" but through the years, I changed my mind what a SNUFF queen was....

Twenty years ago, I thought it was someone who chewed snuff, possibly of a cowgirl persuasion.

Then ten years ago, I heard it was an old pirate term meaning, prostitute.

Just tonight, moments ago, I read that a snuff queen is really this:
A snuff queen in Nashville in the early 70s was a term for a country and western groupie who hung around country artists looking to have sex with them.

I have just earned my Ph.D. from Margaritaville U as now my thesis is complete.

bbqmonster · Post by **bbqmonster** » March 23, 2004 9:27 pm

Seems like sometimes even Jimmy has a hard time with the getting the lyrics straight. I was listening to the Live in Seattle (Auburn, WA) album the other day and I could not believe Jimmy blew the words to Margaritaville.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it sounds like he says:

Nibbling on Sun Bake
Watchin’ the Sun Bake

Anyone else notice this?

longlinergirl · Post by **longlinergirl** » March 23, 2004 9:29 pm

On one his his live cds( I have no idea which one there are soooo many) he jumbles the words to Pasgagoula Run...very funny and very obvious....

PalmettoSon · Post by **PalmettoSon** » March 23, 2004 9:38 pm

longlinergirl wrote:On one his his live cds( I have no idea which one there are soooo many) he jumbles the words to Pasgagoula Run...very funny and very obvious....

It's on MMIM, and he has a major senior moment. I kinda wondered why they picked that recording to include on the "Ultimate Collection."

kokiril33t · Post by **kokiril33t** » March 23, 2004 10:03 pm

it seems a lot of people are getting the words to "come monday" mixed up...I, for one, am one of them.

son of a beach · Post by **son of a beach** » March 23, 2004 10:06 pm

PalmettoSon wrote:
JMUparrothead wrote:
parrottheadbaby wrote:OK OK...the first time I heard Migration I thought it was "listening to perfect walk-around -willie sing me their Texas rhyme"... had no clue what he was talking about...made more sense when I read the lyerics... ... (I know there is still some debate willis or willie). there are a few more ...(ya know esp when youve been drinkin when you try to figure them out...) some rather humorus...ok , someone elses' turn!!
I have a version where he VERY clearly sings "lintenin' to Walker, Willis, and Willie"
I thought it was Murphy, Walker, and Willi(s/e). Where did he skip Murphy and throw both Willis and Willie in there?

He also sings "Walker, Willis, and Willie" during Migration when he appeared on Austin City Limits back in the mid 80s

SpartyPH · Post by **SpartyPH** » March 24, 2004 1:20 pm

I find it funny, too, that so many people are messing up words to "Come Monday," including myself. I used to think it was "Come on, babe" which actually makes sense, and never occurred to me it wasn't right! Until I bought my first album, anyway. Hmmm, what's this "Come Monday" song...?? LOL!

PIR8-4T · Post by **PIR8-4T** » March 24, 2004 2:40 pm

I have another one for all of you lyric gurus.

In Livingston Saturday Night,
common thought is "fifteen" will get you twenty, but in listening to the song is fifteen really what he is saying?

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » March 24, 2004 3:04 pm

Beach Blonde wrote:snuff queen.....(WDWGD&S)

I understood he was saying "snuff queen" but through the years, I changed my mind what a SNUFF queen was....

Twenty years ago, I thought it was someone who chewed snuff, possibly of a cowgirl persuasion.

Then ten years ago, I heard it was an old pirate term meaning, prostitute.

Just tonight, moments ago, I read that a snuff queen is really this:
A snuff queen in Nashville in the early 70s was a term for a country and western groupie who hung around country artists looking to have sex with them.

I have just earned my Ph.D. from Margaritaville U as now my thesis is complete.

Hi Beach Blonde... I'll add my perspective... I heard from a police officer about 20 years ago that "snuff movies" were really hard core pornography, in which the "actors" were high on drugs and didn't know they were in a porno flick. So, I thought a snuff queen was someone who had been a popular star of a snuff movie. Guess I really had my mind in the gutter all along.

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » March 24, 2004 3:14 pm

"The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down."
http://www.csicop.org/si/9905/snuff.html

According to this info, if she was really a "snuff film queen" she wouldn't be alive!

Parrotthed · Post by **Parrotthed** » March 24, 2004 5:19 pm

Beach Blonde wrote:snuff queen.....(WDWGD&S)

I understood he was saying "snuff queen" but through the years, I changed my mind what a SNUFF queen was....

Twenty years ago, I thought it was someone who chewed snuff, possibly of a cowgirl persuasion.

Then ten years ago, I heard it was an old pirate term meaning, prostitute.

Just tonight, moments ago, I read that a snuff queen is really this:
A snuff queen in Nashville in the early 70s was a term for a country and western groupie who hung around country artists looking to have sex with them.

I have just earned my Ph.D. from Margaritaville U as now my thesis is complete.

You are absolutely correct. In the '70s, a "snuff queen" was a country (or C&W) music groupie. A lot of country musicians then (and maybe even now) chewed snuff, thus their groupies were "snuff queens." I first heard this term back in the early '70s when I used to write concert and record reviews for my college newspaper.

Beach Blonde · Post by **Beach Blonde** » March 24, 2004 5:54 pm

Just to add for grins... (snuff queen....)
BUT, I do believe that my HERO, my ICON, my FANTASY, the one and only James Buffett, "chews....."

I posted this once before, but nobody took notice... In the very beginning of the Mini Matinee, when he is talking....it appears that he has a huge wad of Copenhagen in his mouth. Me, OH My!!

I would have never guessed that I would be so aroused by a short, balding, snuff chewing , middle aged, trop-rock legend!!!!

"Jimmy, I will be your 21st century, snuff queen!!!"

mrsmcg · Post by **mrsmcg** » March 24, 2004 9:38 pm

[quote="Beach Blonde"]snuff queen.....(WDWGD&S)

I understood he was saying "snuff queen" but through the years, I changed my mind what a SNUFF queen was....

SNUFF QUEEN??? All these years I thought it was SNUB QUEEN .. like you'd get snubbed if the queen was approached!!

jed's wife · Post by **jed's wife** » March 24, 2004 10:02 pm

ok, just the other day, a grown woman said to me, and i quote "ya gotta love a man who made a living singing about stepping on a POP TART!"
is there a rash of people stepping on their pop tarts?are pop tarts falling from the sky and people can't help but step on them??i dunno, i try to eat mine before it hits the floor.

Caribbean Soul · Post by **Caribbean Soul** » March 25, 2004 8:30 am

PIR8-4T wrote:I have another one for all of you lyric gurus.

In Livingston Saturday Night,
common thought is "fifteen" will get you twenty, but in listening to the song is fifteen really what he is saying?

Well ... that depends... to which version are you listening?

On SOASOAS (and the FM soundtrack also) it is 15 (and they are "high school honeys") while in the Rancho Deluxe version it is 16 (and it's "high school cuties" there) . As to any live versions, knowing Jimmy's propensity to screw upo lyrics .... it could be anything!

PA Phinhead · Post by **PA Phinhead** » March 25, 2004 10:11 am

I used to think on "A Pirate Looks at Forty" he sang, Never been to Paris, but we all know it is, Never meant to last.

DejaLola · Post by **DejaLola** » March 25, 2004 10:23 pm

Caribbean Soul wrote:
PIR8-4T wrote:I have another one for all of you lyric gurus.

In Livingston Saturday Night,
common thought is "fifteen" will get you twenty, but in listening to the song is fifteen really what he is saying?
Well ... that depends... to which version are you listening?
On SOASOAS (and the FM soundtrack also) it is 15 (and they are "high school honeys") while in the Rancho Deluxe version it is 16 (and it's "high school cuties" there) . As to any live versions, knowing Jimmy's propensity to screw upo lyrics .... it could be anything!

which I've always thought meant 20 yrs in prison

finzup9 · Post by **finzup9** » March 26, 2004 12:19 am

finzz2dlft wrote:OK, this is embarrassing to admit, but I can't be the only one! So 'fess up. Who else will admit to completely misunderstanding a lyric or two from a particular Buffett song? Since I asked, I'll go first!

The first time I heard "Lovely Cruise", I swore that Bubba was siging, "It's been a long day through" instead of "It's been a lovely cruise." I sang it that way for weeks before a fellow PHan took pity on me and asked just what the h@ll I was singing.

yeah stuff like that will happen!!

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » March 26, 2004 12:32 am

DejaLola wrote:
Caribbean Soul wrote:
PIR8-4T wrote:I have another one for all of you lyric gurus.

In Livingston Saturday Night,
common thought is "fifteen" will get you twenty, but in listening to the song is fifteen really what he is saying?
Well ... that depends... to which version are you listening?
On SOASOAS (and the FM soundtrack also) it is 15 (and they are "high school honeys") while in the Rancho Deluxe version it is 16 (and it's "high school cuties" there) . As to any live versions, knowing Jimmy's propensity to screw upo lyrics .... it could be anything!

which I've always thought meant 20 yrs in prison

And you are correct, m'am!

Now could somebody please explain the lyrics in "I Heard I Was in Town"?
Passed the old joints
My favorite haunts
We'd stay for twelve or ten
12 or 10 what? minutes? joints? I'm ignorant here! HELP!

PA Phinhead · Post by **PA Phinhead** » March 26, 2004 9:17 am

longlinergirl wrote:On one his his live cds( I have no idea which one there are soooo many) he jumbles the words to Pasgagoula Run...very funny and very obvious....

Yes he does. Perhaps 1 too many boat drinks. I noticed that on the double greatest hits CD. Do you think he's just trying to keep the song from being boring?

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