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Subject: Re: Misheard Song Lyrics
Date sent: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 11:41:24 PST
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>From: Mezzoid-at-aol.com


>My mother once said to me about Carly Simon's "You're so vain," -- "Oh,
>what
>a stupid song. She must be on drugs! That part about the cows ..." and I
>said, "Cows? What cows?" "You know - 'I had some dreams, they were cows
>in
>my coffee'." I said, "MOM!! That's clouds.... you know, like cream
>floating
>in your coffee ..."

Actually, the line is "grounds in my coffee."

Our local wake-up-the-ears radio station, KKUP (People's Radio since 1974!),
played an early version of "Louie, Louie" by a solo 1950s R&B singer.
(Guess I'll have to call Fly and find out who it was.) Could understand
*every* word and no, it's not a filthy song.

My very favorite is Dave Barry's version of the first line of "Help Me
Rhonda": "Well when she put me down I had owls puking in my bed."


Elizabeth Finkler
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

"A world without music is a world without love." --A.R. Gurney

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