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Posted: March 19, 2004 12:00 pm
by PalmettoSon
LonePalm1 wrote:Last year tailgaiting for the TIKI TOUR in chicago.. i caught my older sister (who is 32) singing.. "You can shake the hand of the MANGLED man, as he greets you at the border." We laughed at her all night.
Mindy
aka parrothead1980
Okay, I'm guilty of this one too.
Posted: March 19, 2004 12:18 pm
by FINSUPinIdaho
Re: MISSUNDERSTOOD
Posted: March 19, 2004 1:31 pm
by JMUparrothead
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"
Anchor or appetite?
Posted: March 19, 2004 1:57 pm
by phinzup
JUST THE OTHER DAY -- My 27 year old husband, in the shower, sang Southern Cross as plain as day, "And your love is an appetite to me, tied with a silver chain." I said, "WHAT? Say that again!" And he said the exact same thing over! I was cracking up! I wonder if he will read this ....
Re: MISSUNDERSTOOD
Posted: March 19, 2004 2:25 pm
by PalmettoSon
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?
Re: MISSUNDERSTOOD
Posted: March 19, 2004 2:33 pm
by Caribbean Soul
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?
At the Sag Harbor show... 11/20/99
My very favorite version of the song!
Posted: March 19, 2004 2:47 pm
by tdparrothead
PalmettoSon wrote:LonePalm1 wrote:Last year tailgaiting for the TIKI TOUR in chicago.. i caught my older sister (who is 32) singing.. "You can shake the hand of the MANGLED man, as he greets you at the border." We laughed at her all night.
Mindy
aka parrothead1980
Okay, I'm guilty of this one too.
Until I downloaded the guitar tabs for the song I also thought this too. Although I was always wondering why this man was mangled and why you would want to shake his hand while he was mangled, helping him might have been better if he's mangled. But then when I saw it was Mango Man, it made much more sense. That's my story for the day.
Re: MISSUNDERSTOOD
Posted: March 19, 2004 2:50 pm
by JMUparrothead
Caribbean Soul wrote: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?
At the Sag Harbor show... 11/20/99
My very favorite version of the song!
Actually it was in Amagansett 8/7/02... maybe its a Long Island thing
Posted: March 19, 2004 3:02 pm
by Caribbean Soul
Could be!
Posted: March 19, 2004 3:22 pm
by rednekkPH
My mom, who's only exposure to Jimmy was occasionally riding in my car, went to her grave thinking he was saying "why don't we get drunk in school". Funny part was, she was a teacher
Posted: March 19, 2004 7:23 pm
by finzz2dlft
rednekkPH wrote:My mom, who's only exposure to Jimmy was occasionally riding in my car, went to her grave thinking he was saying "why don't we get drunk in school". Funny part was, she was a teacher
Someone here on the boards mentioned once that she and her 'keets sing it as "Why don't we drink milk and moo?"
Posted: March 19, 2004 9:17 pm
by DejaLola
ParrotOzzy wrote:At first I was sure on Come Monday he was saying "brown oily haze". I wasn't sure what that was, but figured it just couldn't be good.
I used to hear "brown ugly haze", which sorta made sense.
For the longest time, my meager collection mainly consisted of taped copies of BBBB, with no titles (or lyrics, of course). I could never understand what the hell "booze upon strangers" meant (Who's the Blonde Stranger?).
And of course, Frankie & Lola stopped at several Wal-Marts where they slurped a dozen each, didn't they ?
Posted: March 19, 2004 10:34 pm
by Gulf Coast Cutie
My niece thought Jimmy was singing... "My head hurts, my feet stink and I don't love cheese" instead of.. "My head hurts, my feet stink and I don't love Jesus"
Posted: March 20, 2004 12:41 am
by longlinergirl
northeasternparrothead wrote:i STILL don't know what a STILL is in god's own drunk....
What they make moonshine in....really you don't know this?????
Posted: March 20, 2004 12:43 am
by longlinergirl
One Particular Cheesehead wrote:Great topic!
When I first heard Margaritaville in 1977, I was 8 years old. I thought he was searching for a "lost shaker of soul." What the hell did I know about putting salt on a margarita glass? Soul made as much sense as salt.
I got my nephew into Buffett at an early age and he thought Jimmy was singing about "four lonely days in my brown baggy Hanes"! If you're wearin' a pair of Hanes for four days, they would be baggy and you would definitely be lonely!!
and of course brown....
Posted: March 20, 2004 12:47 am
by longlinergirl
This is the last one (tonight anyway) I promise!!! It took me several listen thrus of Ellis Dee to figure out it wasn't L.S.D.......come on its close....
Posted: March 20, 2004 5:53 am
by Bob Roberts
northeasternparrothead wrote:i STILL don't know what a STILL is in god's own drunk....
Please tell me that you're kidding.
Posted: March 20, 2004 6:00 am
by Bob Roberts
I always thought that it was "Brown Alley Haze" in Come Monday as a kid. I also used to ask my parents why anyone would get drunk at school.
The one I didn't figure out until a few months ago was from Frank and Lola......the lyrics are "They stopped at several raw bars where they slurped a dozen each" I heard....."They stopped at several Walmarts where they slurped a dozen each" I always wondered what exactly they were slurping.
Posted: March 20, 2004 10:01 am
by One Particular Cheesehead
longlinergirl wrote:This is the last one (tonight anyway) I promise!!! It took me several listen thrus of Ellis Dee to figure out it wasn't L.S.D.......come on its close....
But really, in the early 70s, it probably was an LSD reference, just thinly veiled enough to get past the censors.
Same idea as "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah:
getting by on LSD
Posted: March 20, 2004 10:12 am
by MyHeadHurts
PalmettoSon wrote: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.
Well, that happened to me too.... At least I'm not alone with that mistake...
The other one that I had was in "The Weather is Here...." I had a bad cassette version of that song and it was constantly in my rag top jeep and in the first chorus I thought he said "My girlfriend's a boy...." rather than "my girlfriend's bore..." Ahh... the error of my ways!
