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From: mayfield@ucbvax.ARPA (Jim Mayfield)
Newsgroups: net.music.gdead
Subject: One thing to try
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 08:59:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 08:59:55 1985
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Keywords: If a man among you...

So here's a topic for conversation.  What's the most bizarre misinterpretation
of lyrics you ever made?  It seems like at every show, I discover that some
verse is sung by the dead differently from how I sing it to myself.  Here
are my favorites:

	In "at a siding," in place of "for good or ill again" I would
	sing "for good old him again."

	"Beat it on down the line" used to start for me: "Well, it's
	John.  My God!"

	"Sunrise"'s "He hums, there are drums" was always "He harms
	their underarms."

And best of all:

	The song Pigpen used to sing on bones and roses, "Big ball of string."
	(You know, "Big ball of string, can't you hear me when I call...").
	I say used to because these days he's singing a horse of a different
	color on that album.

I noticed a few of these in the list of lyrics that was posted to the net
a few months back.  Here are two:

	Althea's "You may be a clown in the burying ground" was
	listed as "You may be a cloud in the varying crowd."

	In bertha, instead of "ducked into a bar door," it was
	"ducked into Novato."

So swallow your pride and tell everybody about your own leonardo words.

						- jim (mayfield@berkeley)