Misapprehensions

Greg Montalbano greg.montalbano at ucop.edu
Thu Jul 3 12:07:42 CDT 1997


Not quite as bad as the mis-hearing of Jackson Browne's TAKE IT EASY, the
line "looking for a lover who won't blow my cover" somehow changing into
"I'm looking for a lover who won't blow my brother" -- a much sadder song,
you'll agree.


>For the longest time I thought "In My Imagination" by the Grass Roots (?)
>was actually "In My New Nazarene Nation".
>
>Joe
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>On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Paul DiFilippo wrote:
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>> The whole subject of garbled rock lyrics was the subject of a 
>> recent book, titled--if memory has not garbled it--'SCUSE ME WHILE
>> I KISS THIS GUY.
>> 
>> --
>> Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
>> "So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
>> whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
>> whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells
>> 
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