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.
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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