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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Another Mangled Hymn
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 16:39:59 EST
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Well, since we have moved from hymns to pop music, I have a couple
examples:

A song from the 60's, "This Guy's In Love With You", before I saw a
reference to it in print, always seemed to be:

"You see the sky -- the sky's in love with you.", which seemed logical
in a metaphysical way to me, indicating that the object of the song was
so attractive that even elemental forces and natural phenomena worshipped
her...

And this one I just discovered this weekend -- The Elton John song,
"Little Jeannie", always seemed to me to be "Little G-Man". (He being
gay, after all, I just assumed that he was singing about his favorite
FBI agent... :-) Only discovered that from buying the record out of a
cut-out bin and playing it and then recognizing the song and looking at
the lyrics enclosed.

I like my interpretations better than the "reality", so will change
everything to correspond when I become King... 

Will