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| Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:05 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: "Because it's June! June, June, June - Jest because it's June, June, June!" - BrianJ 02:56 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| The first time I heard John Raitt sing "Soliloquy" instead of "And look in his eyes through a lorgnette", I thought the lyrics were "And look in his eyes all forlorn yet". I was probably only about 12 and had no idea what a lorgnette was. | |
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| re: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 10:44 pm EDT 08/27/19 | |
| In reply to: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL - BroadwayTonyJ 09:05 am EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| An amusing example of a mis-heard lyric (or mondegreen) from my own family. About 1962, my little sister and I were listening to the cast album of Tenderloin on the radio. I would have been about 13, and Lisa could not have been more than 10. Anyway, Ron Hussmann was singing "The Picture of Happiness," a song that describes a seduction, and came to the lyric, "Her head began to swim, Which was no surprise to him, And then . . . And then . . . He gratified his whim!" And my sweet little sister turned to me and said, "He grabbed her by the what???" |
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| More Mis-heard Lyrics | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:04 am EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Mis-heard Lyrics in CAROUSEL - keikekaze 10:44 pm EDT 08/27/19 | |
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| That's pretty funny. After watching the cast of West Side Story perform "Cool" and "Tonight" on the Ed Sullivan Show (in '58 I believe), my mom bought me the OBC LP. I was only 10 and when I heard "The Jet Song" and "Gee, Officer Krupke" for the first time, instead of "If the spit hits the fan" and "Gee, Officer Krupke -- Krup you!", I thought they were singing "If the shit hits the fan" and "Gee, Officer Krupke -- fuck you!". I had recently gotten my mouth washed out with soap (Lifebuoy -- the worst!) for saying "Fuck, yeah!" at the dinner table (a phrase, BTW, my fellow altar boys at St . Barbara Grade School said all the time). I was so paranoid that I was going to get the soap treatment again, I made sure to skip those two tracks whenever my parents were around. |
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| Posted by: keikekaze 05:08 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: More Mis-heard Lyrics - BroadwayTonyJ 09:04 am EDT 08/28/19 | |
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| I never had my mouth washed out with soap, but "bad" words were so verboten in our house that when I accidentally said "damn," out of sheer surprise at something at age 17, my mom practically had a heart attack! (And that was 1966.) As a result, I was so unfamiliar with most naughty words that at 12 I could only hear "Krup you" as "Krup you," and I didn't even immediately get the implication. Maybe I should have been an altar boy! ; ) |
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| re: More Mis-heard Lyrics | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:17 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: More Mis-heard Lyrics - keikekaze 05:08 pm EDT 08/28/19 | |
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| I had no idea what the f-word actually meant. I just thought it must be a cool thing to say. Unfortunately my mom disagreed. BTW we also drank the priests' wine on occasion. |
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