Lyrics that made you go "huh?"

[J-F C]

One of my favorite songs : Don't bang the drum, by The Waterboys

Great verses all end up with this "Bang the drum like monkeys do"


Well here we are in a special place
What are you gonna do here?
Now we stand in a special place
What will you do here?
What show of soul are we gonna get from you?
It could be deliverance, or history
Under these skies so blue
Could be something true,
But if I know you you'll bang the drum
Like monkeys do


Monkeys bang drums ?

[Long Jon]

Originally Posted by J-F C

One of my favorite songs : Don't bang the drum, by The Waterboys

But if I know you you'll bang the drum
Like monkeys do[/I]


Monkeys bang drums ?

I think it's a Mickey Dolenz reference ....

[werkout52]

Anything by the J Geils band and the Steve miller band's "Take the money and run"
This here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
Two young lovers with nothin' better to do
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose

[Long Jon]

Originally Posted by werkout52

Anything by the J Geils band and the Steve miller band's "Take the money and run"
This here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
Two young lovers with nothin' better to do
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose

I thought the thread was about mysterious lyrics ?
The above example is completely literal and continues on to tell what happened when the sheriff caught up with them, IIRC.

So is Mr. Geils' song about his baby being in the centrefold, which he found a little disconcerting

[ocmcook]

Originally Posted by MHC

As long as we're talking about Dylan...

Genghis Khan, he could not keep
All his kings, supplied with sleep
We'll climb that hill, no matter how steep
When we get up to it.

Especially in the context of the song - what the heck does Genghis Khan have to do with anything?

"All his men supplied with sheep"

[DanPanther]

Originally Posted by Kip Carter

I always thought (never really verified) that lyric was more like:

I swear by the mud below my feet; you can't raise the cane back up when its under feet.

IE: trampled sugar cane.... Like I said, just what I heard in the lyric, but maybe my mind made the connection to something it could comprehend.

I got the lyrics from the internet, we all know that can't be wrong, right ?
Dan

[DanPanther]

Originally Posted by string1399

My take is that he's using a bit of poetic license to say the South has lost, he lost his brother, and at the time, he's feeling that it's going to be really hard to recover from it.

Maybe ?
Dan

[DanPanther]

Originally Posted by DupleMeter

What debate?? It's obviously about pie

What kinda pie ?
Dan

[DanPanther]

Originally Posted by seannx

From Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Say for example you found out your wife cheated on you years ago.
That would be something, "you wished you didn't know now, that you didn't know then".
Better sometimes not to find out.
Dan

[Smitty70]

Don't know the artist nor the correct spelling, innagodadavita. I understand he was high and the lyric was actually in the garden of Eden.

[J-F C]

Originally Posted by Smitty70

Don't know the artist nor the correct spelling, innagodadavita. I understand he was high and the lyric was actually in the garden of Eden.

Iron Butterfly is the band . The son In a Gadda da Vida

[Brucebubs]

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Great song but what the ....

[guitargarden]

Originally Posted by Kip Carter

From "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona

Who is Rosie the Queen of Corona and where is Corona?

http://queens.about.com/cs/famousres...een_corona.htm

"Question: Who is the Queen of Corona?
Answer: Rosie is the Queen of Corona in the Paul Simon song "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard." Mr. Simon says the song was 'pure confection' and had no meaning to real people or events. It's just a catchy tune and he got a laugh out of singing the lyrics. In other words, there is no Queen Rosie. She's Queen only in song.

Corona is a real place -- a neighborhood in Queens, New York, one of the five boroughs of NYC. Corona is known for being the long-time home of Louis Armstrong, the famous jazz musician. The name Corona means 'crown' in Spanish and Italian, which makes Rosie 'Queen of the Crown.'"

[DanPanther]

Originally Posted by J-F C

One of my favorite songs : Don't bang the drum, by The Waterboys

Great verses all end up with this "Bang the drum like monkeys do"


Well here we are in a special place
What are you gonna do here?
Now we stand in a special place
What will you do here?
What show of soul are we gonna get from you?
It could be deliverance, or history
Under these skies so blue
Could be something true,
But if I know you you'll bang the drum
Like monkeys do


Monkeys bang drums ?

He could also be referring to the wind up monkey toy that pounded a drum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPxQuLVBwB0

Dan

[lone eskimo]

Originally Posted by ocmcook

"All his men supplied with sheep"

No-it's sleep....