| Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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Censors were more vigilant in those days and it wouldn't surprise me if the band made up a story about a cat to cover so the song could get released. All you have to do is change 'two big horns" for "two big balls" and the rest falls into place. Why would they have lyrics about going out and not being square in reference to a cat? And what does, "come and learn to dance" have to do with "about the thing she saw" or about a cat? Remember all the speculation about what the lyrics of "Louie, Louie" were referencing? Didn't it even get banned in some places because of this, so called, misinterpretation? Hiding sexual references in songs was a cat and mouse game (no pun intended) that musicians and labels played all the time with the censors. The term 'rock and roll' originated from jazz slang referring to intercourse - plain and simple. |
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| Jackson Browne – Our Lady of the Well Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First thing to consider is the cover photo. It seems that there is a man slouched on a chair behind and to the right of a well. Looks very much like Mexico. It is, in fact, the courtyard of the Abbey where Jackson spent formative years. I once stopped by to participate in a songwriting workshop put on by Severin, Jackson's brother and current resident of the Abbey. It was instant recognition when I stepped through the doorway into that courtyard. I stopped in my tracks held my breath even. I had just walked into an album cover from my youth. "Only in L.A.," I thought. It does seem that the song covers some political ground and draws analogies to romance and growing up. Sometime (I speculate) there is simply a brilliant song title that needs a melody and some words. The active imagination of a child growing up in such a place as the Abbey could easily find poetry in the notion that there is actually a lady who lives in the well. That all of life springs forth from a well is one of the oldest, and yes, somewhat biblical notions. The well was often the social hub of a village. The spoken bulletin board of a people and a time. |
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