Song lyrics

My Ding-a-Ling---Chuck Berry. Speaks for itself really

rap songs are the worst, my 14 year old grandaughter had music playing and turned it off saying to me. you dont want to hear that granny, i asked her why not, she said they were swearing and very suggestive lyrics, thats from my 14 year old grandaugter, after that i did get some lyrics up and shes right

Jerusalem . My English teacher in 6th form told us that the poem was a cry for sexual freedom for women

Jerusalem was my school song and possibly still is. It was a forward-thinking and liberal school, but I doubt it was quite that liberal!

Lola...The Kinks about a sexual encounter where a girl is found out to be a boy at the crucial minute

Jerusalem . My English teacher in 6th form told us that the poem was a cry for sexual freedom for women.

I never understood why DJs used to play Phil Collins Separate Lives as an end of evening smooch song!

Second verse of "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" certainly shouldn't be sung now

Oh. Paperbackwriter, I really thought it was about milkshakes!

Chestnut

I love Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. 'It's all too beautiful' just sounds so good! But he tells the girl to skip off school so she can get high with him in the park.

To be fair on this one, the boys were all very young then too and quite likely to have teen girlfriends! And in the 6th form many of us skipped off school to get high in the park. There's no paedophilic intent here - just near contemporaries. Great record that as well as the first example of phasing between speakers, courtesy of a very inventive studio engineer.

I wouldn't say I was shocked exactly (it's only rock n' roll and all that) but I did blink a bit when I realised the the milk shake that brings all the boys to the yard is nothing to do with a lactose-based beverage.

I too love lyrics & irritate friends by saying many of the things mentioned above, and more!

I am however, a bit unsure about the herb concoction. I grew up in a traditional community, around women who 'saw to things' and the mix I knew of involved other herbs. We knew of parsley, sage, rosemary for medicinal properties (not thyme I think). However, i suspect it may have changed over the years - maybe with what sounded better!
Another version of the Elfin Knight song is Rosemary Lane (listen to Bellowhead's version!)

Loads of songs with double meanings - some fun and some not!
keeping the herbal theme, among my favourites are any of the 'bunch of thyme' songs:
Once I had a bunch of thyme, I thought it never would decay, then a handsome sailor (or soldier!) with a winning smile, he stole my bunch of thyme away.
And we'll all go together to pull wild mountain thyme....

My mother used to sing a version of Strawberry Fair that was very different from the one in the school songbook:
I've a lock without a key.....if you've the key sir, come along with me.....

Still play Don't stand so close to me on the radio and I really don't know why.

More from Rihana i say!

Just google the English lyrics to Despacito....... !

Looking at this thread, I feel ignorance is bliss.

Hotel California all about drug use. Took me years to figure this out as I loved the melody.

The one I always remember a right hooha over was Frankie Goes To Hollywoods "Relax". I loved it in the nightclubs in the 80s, it was so popular, but some radio stations banned it. The shock I had was when my poor wee mum sang away to it cos I played it so much, little did she know what the lyrics actually meant. The lyrics to some of Prince's songs were a bit raunchy too....

I suppose 'Don't Stand So Close To Me by the Police, addressed to a schoolgirl isn't flavour of the month any more!

Rihanna her song Rude Boy : (which I like)

Opening lines '

Hey boy can you get it up get it up
Hey boy are big enough big enough

As the song goes on she cheekily lets you know what she is singing about.

jaylucy Little Richard wrote the original Tutti Frutti but the record company brought in a female songwriter to clean up the lyrics. Little Richard said that he was embarrassed to sing his version to a woman, so he turned his back on her as he sang. It was actually only a few lines that were changed and they are pretty innocuous really.

I always listen to lyrics, so I usually know what a song is about but sometimes it is a bit hard to work out. Still on the subject of Little Richard, what is Long Tall Sally about? Bald-headed Sally has got what Uncle John needs but what is it? Drugs? Sex? Whatever it is, Uncle John doesn't want Aunt Mary to know about it.

Brown Sugar, by 'Mr Snake Hips' and the gang?

Perfect Day is about heroin.
Peaches by the Stranglers is about ladies bodies.
Rod Stewart now won't sing a few of his earlier hits because of the misogynistic lyrics.
Hallelujah definitely wasn't a religious song....
Another brick in the wall (in fact the whole album The Wall) plots the gradual decline in a man's mental health.
Sledgehammer is about sex.....

Actually, Lucy is not about LSD.
Apparently years later John Lennon said that it was all about the time that he was painting a picture of his son Julian with his friend Lucy and he decided to make it into one of the 70s cartoon type pictures and added diamonds to the sky!

Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is one of the few songs that actually says what it means!
And I have just read that the big hit by Little Richard "Tutti Fruitti" is not about sweets but anal sex !!!

Even the holier than thou, Cliff Richard who, in Living Doll wanted to keep his gorgeous Girlfriend 'locked up in a trunk' and in Please Don't Tease Me, demands that she "pleases" him and thrills him "with her magic touch". Even at 13 I could work out what he was asking for

I always listen to the words of songs - it's my thing. Doesn't stop me enjoying a particular song. It's all about the story.

Go away little girl is another one.