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When I was a wee lad, for some dumb reason, I thought JB was saying on "Margaritaville", "...see all those swimmers beginning to boil".
It made no sense to me at all.... and for good reason!

parrottheadbaby wrote: and waht the h*ll is "fronton'... !

If this is still a question... it's a large arena-like building housing jai alai
(pronounced "hi-lye") game courts (kind of like really fast Cuban handball
with scoops instead of hands... "called the world's fastest ballgame by
the Guinness Book of World Records. Jai-Alai is a thrilling, dangerous,
high-speed game, played with a rock-hard ball traveling up to 180 mph.")
where the spectators bet on the players. There used to be a
ton of them in Florida. I always wanted to go watch the games until I got
old enough to get in, and then I wasn't interested anymore.




And I wasn't sure what the "brown L.A. haze" was for years!

The first few times I heard the song "Fins" sometime in the early 80's, I thought Jimmy was singing "Dance to the left-dance to the right."
Then in 1985 I bought the S.Y.K.B.H. album, complete with liner notes and lyrics, and I saw the errors of my ways.

This link has a whole bunch of misheard lyrics, if anyone is interested:


http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist ... immy.shtml


Some are kind of funny, some are well.... just plain stupid.

the last girl i dated, when she was a very little girl, used to sing:

"long lost chickasaw"
instead of
"long lost shaker of salt"

she would kill me if she knew i put that on here

Wino you know wrote:The first few times I heard the song "Fins" sometime in the early 80's, I thought Jimmy was singing "Dance to the left-dance to the right."
Then in 1985 I bought the S.Y.K.B.H. album, complete with liner notes and lyrics, and I saw the errors of my ways.

OK, add me to the list of people who once though that's what it was too.

finzz2dlft wrote:

Wino you know wrote:The first few times I heard the song "Fins" sometime in the early 80's, I thought Jimmy was singing "Dance to the left-dance to the right."
Then in 1985 I bought the S.Y.K.B.H. album, complete with liner notes and lyrics, and I saw the errors of my ways.

OK, add me to the list of people who once though that's what it was too.

Alright, me too.

tdparrothead wrote:I was reading a book on misunderstood lyrics and it says that people think Jimmy say "I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a poptart". I never heard that, nor do I know of anyone who has cut their heel on a poptart.

Ahhhh, my husband to this day will still only sing it if he can say poptart...

Funny how men amuse themselves sometimes

tdparrothead wrote:I was reading a book on misunderstood lyrics and it says that people think Jimmy say "I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a poptart". I never heard that, nor do I know of anyone who has cut their heel on a poptart.

My Keet sang it this way.....in her defense, she lives in a Post-Pop Top world and had no idea what one really is!

In an earlier post someone was trying to decipher all the ruckus in the intro to "The Weather is Here, Wish you Were Beautiful", and mentioned something about the "Coral Rhymer" band

I am 99% sure that Jimmy is saying the "Carl Reiner" band (as in the actor/comedian/Rob Reiner's father). I'm assuming it's just more wordplay in the tradition of Marvin Gardens, Kay Pasa, etc.

Ugh...when I was a teen I had a similar Come Monday flub...I don't know why...obviously I needed a REAL GOOD ear cleaning...but I thought he was saying a "brown drunken haze." Made sense to me if you were lonely...you drank...not sure how the brown fit in though!

Come to think of it, the "'Cause my fin sinks so low" line in Boat Drinks was trouble for me for a long time. I didn't know what it was.

"Stepped on a Pop Tart" appears to be the most common.

My wife thought the same thing! (After several beers, that just might be what he IS saying!)

In we are the people I never quite understood the word "rolf". I guess it is a type of massage, but I always thought it was the slang for "puke". I always wondered why people were tellling him he should puke.

Wow, I can't believe that I'm not the only dumb a** out there. I too thought the finz lyrics were "dance to the left, dance to the right". In why don't we get drunk, for years I thought it said "skunk weed" my wife had to prove to me it wasn't! Also, many may be too young to remember a pop top, it rings all too familiar to me, as once I sliced my toe almost to the bone on one of those things (at the beach) and thought whoever invented the current top should have won a Nobel prize for service to mankind!

I know there's some more but the one that immediately comes to mind is from the version of "Margaritaville" on You Had to Be There where he says "I was snortin' some cocaine". Not a big misunderstanding but I always thought he was saying "I wish I had some cocaine".

The other one comes from a friend of mine who misunderstood the lyrics to "Life Is Just A Tire Swing". He thought Buffett was singing something about Cousin Baxter getting "f*cked with a lamp" when the line is actually "pup tent with a lamp".

mine:

cowboy in the jungle, i thought he was saying "i gotta be where the women and water are free" instead of "wind and the water are free"


but that wouldn't make sense, i mean come on

women? FREE? please

with the weather is here i always accidently say "hes on his third drink before the plane of the wheels leave the ground"

Allthough you COULD cut your heel on a poptart - if it was a holdover from the days of pop tops....

and I'd swear it IS

"God I still feel pain
I wish I had some cocaine
But that's been gone since early this morn"

Play Ball!
2,3,4
Where's my per diem
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Coral Rhymer Band (this one has always thrown me)
Fingers gonna bat (I think this is where the confustion lies)
Hey, Bobby where're the keys to the rent-a-car
Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta, please
Ignore me, don't ever start a band

I read the lyrics were: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Carl Reiner Band
And the last line is "Warning, don't ever start a band"

How the heck do you get those boxes with parts of a post to appear on a reply? Hope you know what I mean.

My daughter has for sometime been convinced that the line in Southern Cross is "Young Mormon Girl". She says it makes more sense to her then the actual lyric.