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(270 posts) Mon May 18, 2026, 06:24 PM Monday

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

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 ... [View all] Munu Monday OP

I believe in miracles PuraVidaDreamin Monday #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 Monday #3

When she was a preteen, my daughter heard some_of_us_are_sane Monday #2

CCR "There's a bathroom on the right" LNM Monday #4

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