Conference rdvax::grateful

That's really funny stuff, Josh.

When I was in high school, a friend of mine tried all night to convince
me that the words to the Clapton tune "The White Room":

"I'll wait in the queue"

were actually

"I'll wait and f!ck you".

...but I didn't buy it.  Well, not really.  ;-)

tim

I used to think that the Europe '72 "One More Saturday Night" went:

"temper turkey rising, Lord'd you'd know just what to do..."

instead of "temperture keep rising...".

in Garcia I's "The Wheel":

"if the butler don't get ya then the lightnin' will"

instead of "if the thunder don't..".  Made sense to me -  "the butler" was 
always the suspect in murder mysteries right?

I still don't know what a bunch of lines in The Band's "Chest Fever" are:

"they say she's attractive / and she's ??covered in crackers?? "

The Stone's "Street Fightin' Man" :
"hey, come, my name is all in purrrrple,  I shout and scream and rage and rail 
and all is cirrrrcus"

which I think goes :
"hey,  ?? my neighbors come say ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? disturb us ?? "

Damn Mick!  He didn't sing a particularly erudite version on the record.

And, I hear "Whats Become of the Baby" as
"eeeeeeeee-oooooooooooo-wwwhhhhhhaaaaaa-oooooooooooo-eeeeeeeee...." ;-)

Josh

    There was a real cute book of these s few years back.  The name came
    from a childs interpretation of the pledge of aligience to the flag.
    It was "I Led The Pigions To The Flag.."
    

and of course there's Jimi Hendrix singing:

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy"  

:^)    

    or then there's theres that line from the tune "blinded by the light"
    
    it goes...  "wrapped up like a ? (douche?!?!)"
    		"you know there running in the night"
    
    or something like that

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>
>    or then there's theres that line from the tune "blinded by the light"
>    
>    it goes...  "wrapped up like a ? (douche?!?!)"
>    		"you know there running in the night"
>    
>    or something like that


Wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night...


The one that always got me was...

Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
rident the backroads so I wouldn't get laid?!? 

(now I know it's weighed, but I couldn't figure out why they would get laid 
less on backroads and why they wouldn't want to in the first place, 
sick teenage minds you know)

Geoff

    re .4 
    
      Actually it's:
    
      "cuse me while I eat my fries"
    
    Marv
    

...and the Robin Williams rendition:

"'scuze me while I kiss this fly"  ("...help me...help me....")

tim

Incidentally, I want to congratulat Josh for coming up with the
funniest new topic of the year.

This one just keeps me rolling, everytime I read it.

tim

    After watching Seinfeld last night, I told my wife the one about 
    "the girl with colitis goes by"  She first heard me saying it as
    kalidescope, but when I repeated it we both in tears from laughing
    so hard.  Then I told her something else I had seen yesterday from 
    one of the guys in my group, not related, but pretty cute nonetheless.
    Source unkown.
    
    If the auto industry were like the computer industry, a car would  now
    cost $5, would get 5000 miles to the gallon, and at random times would
    explode, killing all its passengers.
    
    Getting back closerr to the topic, I once stumbled upon this film
    late one night with, I think, Paul Newman acting as the reluctant
    head of a boys school.  Never did find out the title as I only 
    caught a little bit of it.  But the scene I did catch had Paul(?)
    listening to this little boy as he recited the 'Lord's Prayer'
    The one that starts "Our Father, who art in heaven...." and the
    boy ended it... "lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from
    eagles, amen!"
    
    ;-)
    PeterT
    

I have a tape of live Hendrix in which he *does* sing "'scuse me while I
kiss this guy" ... he also sings "'scuse me while I kiss that policeman
right over there."  He liked to antagonize the cops, "plainclothes 
policemen and other goofballs" in the audience.

OK, in "Respect" by Aretha Franklin:

	"R-E-S-P-E-C-T
	 Find out what it means to me
	 R-E-S-P-E-C-T
	
	 ... take care of TCP?"

Why was Aretha concerned about terminal control programs?  ;^)

- dc

    I remember that prayer 
    
    "Our Father who art in heaven
    Hello, what's thy name..."
    

>	 ... take care of TCP?"

>Why was Aretha concerned about terminal control programs?  ;^)

VTXhead, DC...actually, she's just truncating the full acronym: TCP/IP...;-)

tim

... and the next line is "socket to me," right?

groan

- dc who once swore he'd never tell a computerNerd joke

....ohhhh  I'm sorry...but that's reallllly baaad.....ugh!

I feel awful for encouraging this sort of thing.  Beer time!

tim

How 'bout some CCR

"There's a bathroom on the right"

Jeff

    >or then there's theres that line from the tune "blinded by the light"
    
    > it goes...  "wrapped up like a ? (douche?!?!)"
    >             "you know there running in the night"
    
    That's what I used to hear, too.  I recently came across the actual
    lyrics:
    
    wrapped up like a deuce
    another roller in the night
    
    I know that certainly cleared up one of the great mysteries in MY life.
    
    Now if I could just understand Louie, Louie...
    

Speaking of CCR, I had a friend that thought Stuck in Lo die again was ...

This is kind of crude... hit next unseen if squeemish

You've been warned

Sucking on old diaphrams

See I told you it was crude.

Geoff

Nobody understands Louie Louie except John Belushi, and it killed him.  ;-)

tim

re: -.2

HA HA HA HA !!! 8-)


- jeff

re: Blinded by the Light

I think it's "wrapped up like a deuce another *runner* in the night". not that
it matters anyway, 99% of everyone doesn't know either way!

adam

I think I have the real lyrics to "Louie Louie" somewhere
at home.  I wouldn't necessarily take the source for 
gospel, but I'll try to dig 'em up and post them here...

Dave

    these are great!
    
    up until a few months ago I thought the line in El Paso that goes
    
    My love for Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen
    
    was
    
    My love for Felina is strong and her eyes are out-fallen
    
    I always figured that as a gross, poorly worded, and ill-fitting
    line in an otherwise seamless set of lyrics

Nobody remember's my personal name gaff from V2.0 of Grateful?

I thought the line from Althea which went:

	You may be a clown in the burial ground
	
was:

	You may be a cloud in the varying crowd


..or just another cup of tea.   :-)

Louie, Louie
written by Richard Berry in 1956
recorded by the Kingsmen in 1963
performed by the Grateful Dead on one tape that i have

Chorus:

Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.

1st verse:

Fine little girl she waits for me.
Me catch the ship across the sea.
I sail the ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.

2nd verse:

Three nights and days me sail the sea.
Me think of girl constantly.
On the ship I dream she there.
I smell the rose in her hair.

3rd verse:

Me see Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell I'll never leave again.

----------------

as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer the day before the 4th annual "Louie,
Louie" Parade to benefit the Leukemia Society of America; i think that was on
Memorial Day in 1988; the only song performed in the entire parade is "Louie,
Louie"; we marched as the "Deadheads of the DeBellaware Valley"; (John DeBella
was a DJ on WMMR who was sponsoring the parade)

a lot of other groups had elaborate floats, bands, etc.; we just had the Dead
version recorded over and over again on a tape that we played through a PA on
a cart powered by a car battery (and a bunch of people following in tie-dyes);
and we got on the local news (including me, my bro, and our friend who were all
marching)!!!

- rich

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Geeese, you'd think that the song was really written by The Cookie Monster. :-)

I heard "Shattered" on the radio yesterday, and that has to be the hardest song
to decipher I've ever heard!   I think I'll ask the lyric server to send me the
song to see what it says!  What album is it on?

adam

"Some Girls," I think.

    
    adam...
    
    It's on "Some Girls" (1978?) 
    

    
    
    
                      BANG!
    
    My head hurts... :-}
    
    Steve-O

wubbawubbawubba

Another one shamelessly stolen from rec.music.grateful,

---------------------
Here's one from Bird Song that confused me for a while:

All I know she sang a little while and then threw up!

    how bout this one.....
    
    	Spanish lady come to me she lays under the rug?!? shrub?!?
    
    To this day I still have no idea what the intended wording for that is.
    
    		Mike

    >    	Spanish lady come to me she lays under the rug?!? shrub?!?
    
    Here's how I hear it:
    
    	Spanish lady comes to me; she lays on me this rose
    	With rainbows flying around and round, it trembles and explodes.
    	It left a smoking crater of my mind, I'd like to run away
    	But the heat came 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
    

>    	Spanish lady comes to me; she lays on me this rose
>    	With rainbows flying around and round, it trembles and explodes.
>    	It left a smoking crater of my mind, I'd like to run away
>    	But the heat came 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
    
    thats pretty much how I hear it too.  "she lays on me this rose" is
    quite hard to catch IMHO...
    
    	Mike

>    	It left a smoking crater of my mind, I'd like to run away

I think I've seen this printed somewhere official-like like this:

>    	It left a smoking crater of my mind, I'd like to have blown away.

Bobby contracts it to: "I'd like to've blown away".

	Spanish Lady comes to me and lays on me this dose	
						     ^^^^

	heh heh

    The Grateful Dead Anthology has the words as:
    
    Spanish lady come to me; she lays on me this rose.
    It rainbow spirals round and round; it trembles and explodes
    It left a smoking crater of my mind I'd like to blow away.
    But the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
    
    But then again, they also call the song "Cryptical Envelopment"
    by Jerry Garcia...

    RE: .39
    
    well - yeah, if you want to do it the easy way :-) :-)
    

    I used to think that, instead of:
    
    When push comes to shove,
    When push comes to shove,
    You're afriad of love,
    When push comes to shove.
    
    they were singing:
    
    You are the dark angel.
    The time of purification draws near.
    
    I guess it's all in how you hear it!
    
    Even funnier, I used to think that Jimi Hendrix was a disgrunted Hair
    Club For Men customer: "'Scuse me while I kill this Sy."
    
    Jamie

    Jamie,
    
      You really should quit playing your tunes backwards.
    
    Marv
    
      P.S.
        Why does Bobbie glorify cocaine in that song that goes:
    
      "I need a mirror full, every day."
    
        Also I don't understand how Bob Marley can sing "Belly Full but Me
    Hungry" and then go on and sing "No burgers, no Fries.  No burgers, No
    Fries".
    
    Life is full of mysteries.
    
    Marv
    

>        Also I don't understand how Bob Marley can sing "Belly Full but Me
>    Hungry" and then go on and sing "No burgers, no Fries.  No burgers, No
>    Fries".
    
    	HA HA HA HA HA :_) :_)

	WBCN used to do and still does sometimes parodies of tunes
	around lunch time.  One good one was of a song called 
	"Broken English" or something.

	Instead of "Say it in broken English" the parody went
	"Have it on toast or english" ;-)

	Ken

    In note 62.210 what is Velveeta????  How does the song go?????
    I never heard that one before.
    
    
    Tracy (who keeps running to the mail box for those RFK tickets)!
    

    velveeta aka...
    
         CCOOOOORRRRRINNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

    
    I'm really starting to like CORINA.  Especially after hearing
    it again in Vegas.  But I digress....
    
    

    Does anyone have the words to "Like a Road Leading Home", the
    JGB tune? 

	A Stone's song that has always had me wondering ...
	
	"I saw her today at the reception.
	     A glass of wine in her hand.
	          I knew she was gonna meet her connection.
	    Cuz her ???? ???? ?????????????????"
	
	%-}

    Re: -1
    Speak english Mic!!  Every time someone tries to decifer Stone's lyrics
    I think of the Movie Jumping Jack Flash where Whoopie is trying to
    figure out what Mic is singing.  IMO, Whoopie's funniest movie.
    
    I have the lyrics to "Can't always get what you want"  at home I will 
    check tonight - but I am sure someone in here knows. :-)
          
    :-)
    Scott

    re: .49
    
    I've always thought that next line was "I could tell by blood-stained
    hands."
    
    I may be wrong.  But then again, I may be right.
    
    Bud

I thought it was "at her feet was a footloose man" ...

    re: .-1
    
    Yeah, I got the wrong verse.  "Blood-stained hands" is later.
    
    I always understood him to sing "at her feet was a footloose man" too,
    but I just don't know what that means. 

	"She was practiced at the art of deception ..
	   and I cud tell by her  blood-stained hands."
	
	a footloose man huh? seems to fit.
	
	maybe that's why it says on the inside of this album:
			"THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD"
	so you can understand the words.
	
	;-)

	Now howabout Deal? ya know?

	like:

	"I've been smokin the hooteroo 
	 for 10 good solid years

	 I told bout all that went down
	 now I'm burnt out.....totally glue!!!!!!	

	 Goes to show you don't ever know
	 good stuff baby! lets go!

	 Wait until that deal come round
	 don't cha let that deal go down"	

	
	

    Watch out Deane I'll tell you about Sailing.
    
    	Sailin', got my battens in
    	Keep sailin' like you're  winin' man 
    	T'windward, on the lay line
    	Ya' just keep beetin dohhwwwhhwnnn
    
    	Well, I guess that doesn't really sound much like the song, I must
    have had a good race tonight!!! ;^D 
    
    On that stones tune, I could swear there's a line about a bleeding man
    which is similar to the foot loose man. 
    
    I knew she was gonna meet (make?) her connection 
    At her feet was (were?) a blleeding man
    
     You can't alway get what you want      and so on 
    
    
    I'll have to go find it and listen. 
    
    Geoff

RE:	"I saw her today at the reception.
	     A glass of wine in her hand.
	          I knew she was gonna meet her connection.
			Cause at her feet was a footloose man..


I always thought this was about some dude who see's this girl he really
liked at HER wedding reception and that she had married some other 
free-spirit guy who worshipped the ground she walked on - thus "at her feet" 

Can't always get what what you want....