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Munu

(269 posts) Mon May 18, 2026, 06:24 PM 23 hrs ago

I'd like to hear some fuckin' Dixieland pretty momma come and take me by the hand ...

Well that's what it sounded like to me the first time I heard it and unlike most misheard lyrics it made perfect sense in context.
But I knew it was wrong because 1974 on AM radio.

Took me a while to find someone who knew the correct lyrics.

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I'd like to hear some fuckin' Dixieland pretty momma come and take me by the hand ... (Original Post) Munu 23 hrs ago OP

I believe in miracles PuraVidaDreamin 22 hrs ago #1

I have to rec this. I was a kid at the time. I didn't know what a bra is, let alone why someone would sing about them. Intractable 18 hrs ago #3

When she was a preteen, my daughter heard some_of_us_are_sane 21 hrs ago #2

CCR "There's a bathroom on the right" LNM 18 hrs ago #4

Mine was Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot u4ic 14 hrs ago #5

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,690 posts)

1. I believe in miracles

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2026, 07:06 PM

22 hrs ago

Wear a bra, you sexy thing.

I was 7 years old- That's how it sounded on WRKO Boston

Intractable

(2,390 posts)

3. I have to rec this. I was a kid at the time. I didn't know what a bra is, let alone why someone would sing about them.

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #1)

Mon May 18, 2026, 11:29 PM

18 hrs ago

WABC, AM radio, New York

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,566 posts)

2. When she was a preteen, my daughter heard

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2026, 08:48 PM

21 hrs ago

the line in a Madonna's song "I fell in love with San Pedro" as.... "I fell in love with SOME DAGO".

LNM

(1,264 posts)

4. CCR "There's a bathroom on the right"

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2026, 11:43 PM

18 hrs ago

Loved their songs but could never understand the lyrics.

u4ic

(17,134 posts)

5. Mine was Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 03:11 AM

14 hrs ago

Sundown you better take care if I find you've been drinking my Labatt's ale

I eventually had to look the lyrics up on the internet to find out what he was actually singing...

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