Posted on 06/23/2020 7:32:44 PM PDT by SamAdams76
For years and years since about 1971, I've been listening to "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart. Well, not every minute of these past 49 years but at least 500 times I've heard that song either on the radio or from my music collection.
Not even my favorite Rod Stewart song but I've heard it probably the most out of the Rod Stewart songs on account of it being so popular and all. ("In A Broken Dream" is my favorite Rod Stewart song and he recorded it with a band that called themselves Python Lee Jackson).
So anyway, I've heard the song a bunch of times. And there is a verse in that song that I always heard like this:
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of frying food
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helpin' hand
At least, that's the way I always heard it. But thanks to the Internet, I happened to look at the lyrics tonight and saw that the lyrics referred to "playing pool" and not "frying food"
Then I go to listen to the song again and I still hear "frying food" instead of "playing pool."
You should give it a listen for yourselves. I'm sticking with frying food - I don't care what the lyrics say. I think they call that a mondegreen.
Besides, Rod Stewart looks a little like Gordon Ramsay. I think they call that a doppelganger. So I say frying food - not playing pool.
There’s a bathroom on the right.
You can bet they don’t play “Every Picture Tells a Story” on the radio anymore.
My all-time favorite...”Life would be ecstasy/You and me, and Leslie....Groovin’.....”
Why would you need a cue to fry food?
She was tall, thin, and taut-ee, and she drove a Maserati faster than sound. I was heaven bound.
I’ve been hearing impaired from birth. I understand your problem.
C.C.R.
“Food” doesn’t rhyme with “school” & usually you don’t fry food with a cue. Just saying.
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I had a friend who, whenever he heard the song "When the Bullet Hits The Bone" thought it said "When the Bullet Hits The Phone"...:)
I have always liked the intro to that song Maggie May.
I listen to a lot of music, but I’m not a musician.
Rod has always had really good people backing him up.
Question: Is that a Ukulele I hear during the intro?
It’s louder and stronger than I would normally expect for that stringed instrument.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!
It always sounded like “playing pool” to me, but I never liked his music.
I think Ron Wood played on that one.
HOWEVER, I must confess, I did just recently realize that in the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to heaven, I though Robert Plant sang " from the dork on Satan's doorknob" but he really says " from the door comes Satan's daughter" ....and it only goes to show, you know o-o-o-o
Holy crap...is that him? That is a major improvement in my eyes...
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