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I just realized that Rod Stewart was singing about playing pool - not frying food

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.


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To: DannyTN

And how can that kind of cue be sold,


61 posted on 06/23/2020 8:01:42 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: SamAdams76
Thanks for all the responses but I still hear in the song that Rod was singing about taking his daddy's cue and making a living out of frying food.

"Taking a cue" used to be an expression that had nothing to do with a billiards cue.

62 posted on 06/23/2020 8:03:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: FreedomPoster

I’ll never be your pizza burning


63 posted on 06/23/2020 8:04:18 PM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: Meatspace

Not sold, stole.

Thought steal my daddy’s cue, meant imitate him.

Imitate him making a living playing fool.


64 posted on 06/23/2020 8:05:12 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Tired of Taxes
Here you go ... just for fun. ;-)

Hot Legs

65 posted on 06/23/2020 8:08:36 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: SamAdams76

Stewart’s best song: “( I Know ) I’m Losing You”


66 posted on 06/23/2020 8:08:47 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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To: SamAdams76

First time I heard Zevon’s Werewolves of London, I (mis)heard the lyrics as, “I’d like to meet Liz Taylor.”


67 posted on 06/23/2020 8:09:03 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Autonomous User
Good one. Maybe the best usage of cues in a TV setting:


68 posted on 06/23/2020 8:09:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (We are NOT all in this together.)
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To: SamAdams76
Had a similar mis-hearing of lyrics for years with a song called "Venus" by Shocking Blue. There is a verse that goes:

"She's got it,
Yeah baby,she's got it.
I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at your desire."

I always head that last line as "I'm your fire at Jordan, Sire."

69 posted on 06/23/2020 8:10:15 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

I have to remember, The Beatles weren’t the only rock group using uncommon instruments at that time. G. Harrison had his Sitar, but Ron Wood had his Mandolin. They also learned from each other.
Donovan taught J. Lennon a guitar finger picking technique later used on Dear Prudence and a few other White Album songs.


70 posted on 06/23/2020 8:12:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: dfwgator
They won’t play this either:

Jerry Reed,

When you’re hot you’re hot

71 posted on 06/23/2020 8:12:18 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: SamAdams76

Scuse me while I
https://www.kissthisguy.com/


72 posted on 06/23/2020 8:12:52 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: lee martell

Mandolin


73 posted on 06/23/2020 8:13:10 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: lee martell
I have to remember, The Beatles weren’t the only rock group using uncommon instruments at that time. G. Harrison had his Sitar, but Ron Wood had his Mandolin. They also learned from each other.

John Entwistle played French Horn on a lot of Who songs.

74 posted on 06/23/2020 8:14:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SamAdams76

My favorite Rod Stewart song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBFyS2hlhw


75 posted on 06/23/2020 8:15:35 PM PDT by djf (Better to be anecdotally alive than clinically dead!)
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To: SamAdams76

Apeman (Kinks from Lola)

“I look out my window, but I can’t see the sky
‘Cos the air pollution is foggin’ up my eyes”

I’ve listened to this since I bought the LP when it first came out & I’m still not convinced he is saying “foggin’”.


76 posted on 06/23/2020 8:15:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Still Thinking

She’s as sweet as “triple O” honey.


77 posted on 06/23/2020 8:15:55 PM PDT by TimPatriot
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To: SamAdams76

I thought it was “playing the fool.”


78 posted on 06/23/2020 8:18:17 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: SamAdams76

In the summer of 1966, Ron Nasty was widely quoted by saying that the Rutles were bigger than God. He went on to say that God had never gotten a hit record.

In response to this, many fans burnt their albums, many more burnt their fingers trying to burn their albums. Album sales skyrocketed, as people began to buy the albums, simply to burn them.

It would later turn out that it was all a great misunderstanding. Nasty, whilst talking to a slightly deaf journalist, stated that the Rutles were bigger than Rod Stewart, who would not be big for another eight years.

In an interview on the subject, Ron stated that this proved that “[we’re] all daft— I’ll probably get in trouble for that now.” Nasty apologised to God and Rod for these statements.


79 posted on 06/23/2020 8:18:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tired of Taxes; Tunehead54
Maybe you'll like these guys better? ;-)

Faces - Stay With Me

80 posted on 06/23/2020 8:19:07 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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