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lyric refrences that puzzle you

Posted: 2008-05-18 04:38am
by The Yosemite Bear
Creedance Clearwater Revival: Choolin (yes they have the phrase in several songs, including "Keep on Choolin", "Born on the Bayou", "Proud Mary", etc.)

Deep Purple, Guns And Roses: Rocket Girl/Rocket Queen, ("Knocking on your Back door", "My Woman From Toyko", "Rocket Girl") Well aside from hte context that she's apparently quite energetic in bed...

Leadbelly, Bob Marley, various Irish Folk songs, The Cops Theme song: Sheriff John Brown (either there's a bunch of mean nasty cops named "John Brown" over the centuries or this has some other meaning)

Posted: 2008-05-18 10:23am
by Tsyroc
"Knocking on your back door" also makes me think of the Led Zepplin lyric, "I wanna be your back door man".

I think at the time it meant someone who was sneaking in the back door of a house for some illicit loving and had nothing to do with anal sex, which can kind of be implied these days.


Zep's "Bustle in your hedge row" --- WTF?


Steve Miller - "Some people call me Maurice Cause' I speak of the pompitous of love"

Posted: 2008-05-18 03:00pm
by Terralthra

Posted: 2008-05-18 03:57pm
by The Yosemite Bear
yes, back door man, is a blues tune from way back, and it refers to the guy that delivers sweet lovin to the bored house wife. Entering the house through the back door. it's also in a doors cover of the Howlin Wolf version.

"if there's a bustle in your hedge row don't be alarmed ma'am it's just a spring clean for the May Queen"
Translation: if you find a package in your garden it's just the fairies getting rid of shit.

Posted: 2008-05-20 10:00pm
by Qwerty 42
Tsyroc wrote: Zep's "Bustle in your hedge row" --- WTF?
That whole song is subject to a wide variety of interpretations, but I always took it as an admonition to "not distress yourself with imaginings." The speaker is saying that if someone seems malicious (bustling in your hedgerow,) don't become paranoid and distrusting, because it could be innocuous or even helpful (don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for a May Queen.)

Re: lyric refrences that puzzle you

Posted: 2008-05-20 10:03pm
by Darth Ruinus
The Yosemite Bear wrote:Deep Purple, Guns And Roses: Rocket Girl/Rocket Queen, ("Knocking on your Back door", "My Woman From Toyko", "Rocket Girl")
Isnt the song called Rocket Queen? Unless that Deep Purple band has a song called Rocket Girl?

Posted: 2008-05-20 11:58pm
by The Yosemite Bear
Ok your right. let me try and google it now....