Strange Lyrics

[Winsford Soul]

Just listening to a mp 3 in the car and a Wilson Picket tune started playing called I found a true love. Then in one of the verses he sings about calling his true love magnolia. It just sounded strange .Got me thinking about what other records are out there with strange comments. So let's see what you can come up with. 

 

Steve

 

 

[Tezza]

The Crow - Your Autumn of Tomorrow

 

'the length of your hair is the extent of your love'

'the expression of your desire, the grass upon my fire'

 

or something like that.

Basically all of that song. Love it though.

Edited April 11, 2014 by Tezza

[Dean]

_{Always thought Dean Parrish planting seeds after finding a patch of earth whilst there's a storm going on was a bit silly . . . . . . . . butI'll dance to it!}

[arnie j]

look no further than the gibberish lyrics in marsha gee-the peanut duck,wa gi wa gigi gi ga goona wa gi wa gigi gigi goo,even the title of the record is crazy

jason

[Seano]

Contours, 'First I Look at the Purse' - "She can be quivering with a rash, long as she got some cash"(right at the end of the track).

[Seano]

And one I picked up today at the Record Fair in town, Sisters Love, 'Mr Fix-It Man' - "It's like being married to the meat man, and him only bringing home the balls"!

[Guest BENSON BOY]

Cajun Heart-----Watch a tree grow ?

[Robbk]

Contours, 'First I Look at the Purse' - "She can be quivering with a rash, long as she got some cash"(right at the end of the track).

Huh???  I've always heard that line quite clearly as "She can be COVERED with a rash"-which makes a LOT more sense.  I bought that record new, and I must have listened to it several 1000 times in the 50 years I've had it (plus the 5-6 times I heard it before buying it), and it ALWAYS sounded like "covered". 

 

Not trying to "blow my own horn" here, but just using simple logic and scientific method: I would trust my own ears here versus those of a Brit, as I am much more used to hearing and understanding US Midwestern "Ghetto speech (so-called "Ebonics") used in 1965, as I was living in South Chicago (half African-American at that time) at the time that song was recorded (only a few streets away from that district's boundary with The completely Black South Side). And, I worked on The South Side, and ALL my friends lived there.  And, before we moved there in 1959, we visited family there for long periods each summer and during the Christmas 2-weeks since 1949.  So, I understand that speech immediately and instinctively. 

 

I would be interested to read your comments after listening to it one more time, if you could be so kind as to humour this old, senile gaffer (whose memory sometimes changes what he's "KNOWN" all his life (the old "they changed things while I wasn't looking" syndrome). 

[Modernsoulsucks]

Lead singer of Contours is from Oswaldtwistle originally and it is "covered" with a rash.

 

A rash being local idiom for curlers and accompanying headscarf.

 

Bob's got no idea what he's talking about. Guy's never seen a whippet !

 

ROD

[Seano]

Fair comments both, I stand corrected! Reading Robb's correction I still thought it an off the wall lyric, but with Rodd's additional explanation of what a 'rash' meant then it's not so weird after all!

 

Will dig out a few other lyrics if I can remember the tracks, and fingers crossed they'll be accurate!

 

best

Sean

[Guest Dave Ward]

"Every time we go to your' mothers...Stuff yourself....You're like a pig Ralph"

[Seano]

Exciters "Blowing up my Mind" - again, towards the end of the record; "It's almost like eating beans by the pound, then wrapping up in adhesive tape from the waist down".

[Guest Dave Ward]

Exciters "Blowing up my Mind" - again, towards the end of the record; "It's almost like eating beans by the pound, then wrapping up in adhesive tape from the waist down".

Peas

[MotownDave]

if you listen to all the lyrics of 'first I look at the purse ' they are not particularly flattering to women . and it is definitely 'covered with a rash'

[Guest Juniorsoul]

With one grain of sand and a teardrop, we can build an ocean of love.

Soul Bro's Inc -  Pyramid.

[Liamgp]

With one grain of sand and a teardrop, we can build an ocean of love.

Soul Bro's Inc -  Pyramid.

 

Oh my god, I had almost forgotten those!

 

How about 'Cool Off' by the Detroit Executives then?

[The Phantom Janitor]

Big Daddy Rodgers, I'm a big Man - gonna take you to the wood shed and drop a couple of planks on you, how romantic !!

[maslar]

Colette Kelly - City Of Fools. The strangeness (quirkiness)  of the lyrics, compounded by the phrasing.

 

The Masqueraders The Grass Was Green - a homicidal love song? 

 

I'm Your Pimp? 

[spike1]

Contours, 'First I Look at the Purse' - "She can be quivering with a rash, long as she got some cash"(right at the end of the track).

Think it says she could be coverd in a rash ??

She can waddle like a duck as long as she's willing to f@&k?

[gazman]

What was going on when this was written????

 

https://youtu.be/NIV2JTYqgwU

 

 

gary

[Davenpete]

I'm gonna take you to the wood shed and drop a couple of planks on you. Big Daddy Rogers

[Md Records]

The track that always makes me smile for poor lyrics is "Ed Cooper - Just Like The Hero" An Interesting concept for lyrical content to start with, but when he sings "Napoleon was in love with Josephine, and oh baby, for her love he gave up everything" Now ignoring the contentious view, certainly in the U.K. that Napoleon was a "hero", did he really give up everything for Josephine  I suppose "Josephine" does rhyme to an extent with "everything"

 

Des

[Spacehopper]

neal kimbles -if it wasn't for the children has some pretty non pc lyrics about woman not getting fat so he wouldn't have to look elsewhere!

 

and then ofcourse 'what condition my condition was in or rex garvins believe it or not both about lsd!

[Mick Boyle]

Harvey - Any Way You Wanta

Totally mad from start to finish

Dont think you can find any thing from our scene as mad as this