| Bob Dylan – Maggie's Farm Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Maggie's Farm is Chairman Mao's farming communes. And each verse describes other countries who have incorporated Communism. | |
| Bob & Earl – Harlem Shuffle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This lyric is about watching a heroin addict--- deeply stoned on heroin--- shuffle through the streets of Harlem. He moves real slow... swaying to the left and to the right, and sometimes he "nods out", his knees buckle and he almost falls. He scratches like a monkey: "monkey" is code for a "monkey on your back that you can't shake", ie., addiction to a drug such as heroin or cocaine. Those addicted to opiates, after about 2 or 3 hours into their high, start itching all over... Heroin addicts scratch themselves all over. "Monkey shine" is street code for heroin. Black American artists have famously couched all matter of taboo topics into coded song lyrics, and this one is no exception. | |
| Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Town Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm guessing that "being in sugar town" is beatnik slang for being high on LSD. In the 60's, LSD was usually taken by swallowing a sugar cube onto which a drop of the LSD chemical was dripped. "Not a drop fell on little old me" "Pretty soon all my troubles will pass" "Lay right here in the grass" may allude to marijuana. "Ten dollars" was probably what a sugarcube of LSD cost in 1966. |
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