On the way in this morning I was listening to Ruby Andrews - Just loving you and she definitely does sing "such a tit head" towards the end of the song, no question. In Cookie Jackson's - Do you still love me, she does say "Ian Sims" during the song. And my mate thinks that Lonzine Cannon number is all about drugs as he says "you call me and asked me for an eighth".

All right that last one was a joke, but there are some unfathomable lyrics that have taken years to work out what they are singing about and some I'm still not sure about. Here's a couple that were unwrapped years ago, but it took years to figure them out ... "look before you leap and count, count your blessings instead of sheep". Another was, "Give up you silly fool give up, that's what my friends tell me to do.

If anyone knows what the Cairo's were on about; "every day when she walks by, I give her my biggest smile, but it's always in vain and I see it ????"

Are there any soul songs you know with strange indecipherable lyrics? Or are there any we can help you with maybe?

Hey girl are you blind, can't you read between the lines, stop over stop over stop, stop overlooking me looking me, stop over stop over stop, stop overlooking me looking me.

It's much more fun to make up you're own lyrics.......instead of stop over, stop over, stop over looking me.

We sing....tupperware, tuperware, tuperware, tup.......or is that just a woman thing.

Then there's.....Jo Ann Garrett....I decided on a transit van....

Loads more but you defo need to sing them to understand......

Thing is once you get new words, it's hard to fall back into the right ones again..

It's much more fun to make up you're own lyrics.......instead of stop over, stop over, stop over looking me.

We sing....tupperware, tuperware, tuperware, tup.......or is that just a woman thing.

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Then there's.....Jo Ann Garrett....I decided on a transit van....

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Or, "I decided on a plate of spam"!

Was listening to the fabulous Mello Souls on the way home last night, but big chunks of the song (we can make it) are indecipherable.

I wonder if  the LSD (Lyrical Soul Doctor) Simon knows the meaning of  the words to this £10k+ sound?

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Why do you always cry when I say goodbye?

When you know we can make it (let me hear you brother)

That hurt I can't deny (now let me hear my soul brother yeah, yeah, yeah)

Now love makes me suffer, you and I are still one

We can make it my darling, yes, just you and I

Why do you think I tell you every day?

Cause the feeling that is so deep, darling it's deep down within me now

Let me tell you girl, no, no, no, no…..

Love, since we have ????, oh my darling, brings the hurt out in us now

We can make it my yes, just you and I

Sax break

- Oh, say that you want me, girl

- I'd die, if I didn't love you so

- And I’d die if I’ve got to you go

Let's put our feelings together, we're supposed to be one

Because there's one thing that you have to dig girl

‘All be all’ with us now, let me tell you girl, no, no, no, no

Love, since we have ????, oh my darling, brings the hurt out in us now

We can make it my darling, yes, you and I

- Oh, say that you want me , yeah, yeah

- I'd die, if I didn’t love you so

- And I’ll die if I’ve got to let you go

Baby

Every hour of……

Why do you always cry when I say goodbye?

When you know we can make it (let me hear you brother)

That hurt I can't deny (now let me hear my soul brother yeah, yeah, yeah)

Now love makes me suffer, you and I are still one

We can make it my darling, yes, just you and I

Why do you think I tell you every day?

Cause the feeling that is so deep, darling it's deep down within me now

Let me tell you girl, no, no, no, no.....

Love, since we have ????, oh my darling, brings the hurt out in us now

We can make it my yes, just you and I

Sax break

- Oh, say that you want me, girl

- I'd die, if I didn't love you so

- And I'd die if I've got to you go

Let's put our feelings together, we're supposed to be one

Because there's one thing that you have to dig girl

'All be all' with us now, let me tell you girl, no, no, no, no

Love, since we have  ????, oh my darling, brings the hurt out in us now

We can make it my darling, yes, you and I

- Oh, say that you want me , yeah, yeah

- I'd die, if I didn't love you so

- And I'll die if I've got to let you go

Baby

Every hour of......

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Outstanding Mate

Coulda done with you in Freebasing earlier, (name that oldie). Homer Banks & The Ellingtons sure had Mikey stumped

Edited August 31, 200519 yr by Ian Sims

Can anyone fill in the 'DA's here from Overdose of Joy?

'And around his neck

He wears a DA DA piece of jewellery.' ??

Been driving me crackers for ages.

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We reckon its "COSTLY" piece of jewellery BH

I always sing "Pea soup to treat him" for the first line of "Girls are out to get you" Fascinations and a non soul lyric I never worked out was "Mouling I was mouling in a plastic bag" from Chicory Tip "Son of my father" BH

I was listening to The Showmen - You are my everything on the way home tonight.

Weird bit three parts of the way through, G Johnson's goin on about "your'e my lover, your'e my doctor" etc (whatever it is) and there's this involuntary shout from one of the band Deffo sounds like it shouldn't be there, well weird

Jackie Ross definatley sings "Nude Lover" and not "New Lover" BH

Listening to Lou Roberts - Ten to one ... "They can't be fu*ked to gamble on you, you didn't play fair"....

If anyone knows what the Cairo’s were on about; “every day when she walks by, I give her my biggest smile, but it’s always in vain and I see it ????”

Lyrics as conformed by Keni Lewis many years ago:

 Every day that she walks by,  I give her my biggest smile,

 but it’s always in vain,  and I sit here crying again.

Hey girl are you blind, can’t you read between the lines, stop over stop over stop,

stop overlooking me looking me, stop over stop over stop, stop overlooking me

looking me. I love you, I need you, honest I do. So stop overlooking me, looking me,

so stop overlooking me, looking me.

Gee wizz, you're acting like a kid,

holy smoke, it's no joke.

I'm crazy about you, crazy crazy, now I can’t live without you, I can’t live without you

hi, a none soul record i've always liked for the lyrical content is Ken Dodds awesome toon "Happiness".

Sing along now......

A penis,a penis, the greatest thing that i possess,

I thank the Lord that i possess,

More than my share of a penis..

i thank you......i'm here all week

Edited November 24, 200618 yr by KevH

hi, a none soul record i've always liked for the lyrical content is Ken Dodds awesome toon "Happiness".

Sing along now......

A penis,a penis, the greatest thing that i possess,

I thank the Lord that i possess,

More than my share of a penis..

i thank you......i'm here all week

That's the version I sing.

Ken Dodd definitely knew what he was doin' when he sang that one!

Lyrics as conformed by Keni Lewis many years ago:

Every day that she walks by, I give her my biggest smile,

but it's always in vain, and I sit here crying again.

Hey girl are you blind, can't you read between the lines, stop over stop over stop,

stop overlooking me looking me, stop over stop over stop, stop overlooking me

looking me. I love you, I need you, honest I do. So stop overlooking me, looking me,

so stop overlooking me, looking me.

Gee wizz, you're acting like a kid,

holy smoke, it's no joke.

I'm crazy about you, crazy crazy, now I can't live without you, I can't live without you

Bloody hell mate! Nearly fell off me chair when I saw this old story at the top of the list.

You the man for those lyrical decipherings..

Was another one I was thinking of the other day .. Ah it'll come back to me.

Great tho' and post # 3 on this thread is the second funniest thing I've ever read on here!

Bloody hell mate! Nearly fell off me chair when I saw this old story at the top of the list.

You the man for those lyrical decipherings..

Was another one I was thinking of the other day .. Ah it'll come back to me.

Great tho' and post # 3 on this thread is the second funniest thing I've ever read on here!

Can anyone help me and throw light on the the lyrics in the middle section of " Cause Your Mine " :

Ever since I first heard it ( during the war ...... ) , it sounds like he is singing .....

" PALEFACE , PALEFACE "

I very much doubt that the Vibrations' vocalist had assumed the identity of a native american indian , and that he was ranting at those who had stolen his lands from him .

But has they say in Sarf Yorkshire ..... " tha never knows , owd cock " .

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Edited November 25, 200618 yr by Malc Burton

I always sing "Pea soup to treat him" for the first line of "Girls are out to get you" Fascinations and a non soul lyric I never worked out was "Mouling I was mouling in a plastic bag" from Chicory Tip "Son of my father" BH

'Be sure to treat him like a king sitting on his throne'

YES - THE SNAKE "AL WILSON" "AW SHUTUP SILLY WOMAN SAID THAT REPTILE WITH A GRIN"

COME ON EVERYONE KNOWS SNAKES CANT TALK!!!!!

or grin

Jimmy at work said someone played the Snake on R6 the other day.

I had to alert him to this thread and one of the funniest things (above) I've ever read on Soul Source.

0.45 ... does he actually say it

or is his Fixadent passed it's use by date

When one of my daughters was about 6 or 7 years old she sang the chorus of You Can't Hurry Love by Diana Ross as:

You can't hurry love

No, you just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

Its a game of FISH AND CAKE