Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!markv From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Vita) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Unintelligible lyrics Message-ID: <2527@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 18:54:25 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2527 Posted: Tue Oct 30 18:54:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 02:40:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 40 <...> About unintelligible lyrics--the master of garbled pronunciation has got to be John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Surely you've all heard the tune "Bad Moon Risin'" which contains the line: There's a bad moon on the rise... which, because of Fogerty's bizzare diction, has oft been interpreted as: There's a bathroom on the right.... It took me years to figure out that the refrain of "Lodi" is: Oh Lord, stuck in old Lodi again..... There are still some lines in "Down On The Corner" and "Fortunate Son" which mystify me. A more recent unintelligible vocalist is Stevie Ray Vaughan. He has kind of a rough voice to start with, and a Texas drawl which makes it worse. He also has a tendency to insert interjections such as "mah" (my) in the middle of lines, which makes it much harder to figure them out. Frankly, I listen to Vaughan for the guitar, and have never been struck by any of the lyrics, so I maybe haven't cared enough to try to fully translate them all. However, after seeing the video for "Couldn't Stand The Weather", which is kind of bizzare, I've become interested in figuring out exactly what he says. Anybody out there have a full (or even partial) decryption of the lyrics to this tune? I really wish that record companies would make it a policy to publish lyric sheets with all albums, unless the artist has a strong objection to doing this. (I don't see why they should, unless the lyrics happen to be embarrassingly bad.) I sometimes like figuring out lyrics on my own, but it's frustrating when you can't confirm your guesses. -- Mark Vita Dartmouth College USENET: {decvax,cornell,linus,astrovax}!dartvax!markv ARPA: markv%dartmouth@csnet-relay CSNET: markv@dartmouth