From: moe@null.com   
      
   On 10/20/2013 4:10 PM, Alan J Rosenthal wrote:   
   > Moe DeLoughan  writes:   
   >> On 10/16/2013 5:09 PM, Alan J Rosenthal wrote:   
   >>> When I was of late teen age, someone told me with confidence that   
   >>> the original lyrics to that song, instead of "Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce   
   >>> que c'est" were "Psycho Chicken, what the fuck".   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> "Psycho Chicken" was a parody of Psycho Killer, performed by The   
   >> Fools. It was a big hit in the Boston area.   
   >   
   > Cool, and sounding awfully likely to be the source of the legend.   
   >   
   > Although not containing the 'F' word.  Which the urban legend doesn't   
   > work without, because the idea behind the legend was that obviously they   
   > couldn't record it in that form so they had to change it.   
   >   
      
   There's also songs whose original lyrics are on the album cut, but   
   were changed on the single to keep the radio stations happy. Such as   
   the Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner", with its line "funky shit   
   goin' down in the city" changed to "funky kicks goin' down in the   
   city" in the single release.   
      
   The Kink's original recording of "Lola" included the phrase   
   "Coca-Cola", which was later changed to "cherry cola" for the single   
   release.   
      
   > James  writes:   
   >   
   > Hi!...   
   >   
   >> I can see Alan how you made the error.   
   >   
   > I've made plenty of errors in my life, but I don't think this is an example.   
   > I didn't _believe_ the urban legend that this was what the "original" lyrics   
   > were.   
   >   
   >   
   > How about this motif in general, though?  Any other sightings than my two?   
   > Where some famous pop song with incoherent or at least overly obscure   
   > lyrics is said to have been a tweaking of something scandalous, which   
   > is quoted as part of the UL, and I think would probably usually be more   
   > coherent than the real lyrics.   
      
   Well, the absolutely classic example of this is "Louie, Louie", of   
   which many articles and a few books have been written. Hell, it even   
   got its own FBI investigation as a result of the UL.   
      
   An interesting one is Wings "Hi Hi Hi" with the line, "I want you to   
   lie on the bed, get you ready for my body gun". But that's not the   
   actual lyric, which is, "...get you ready for my polygon". The   
   misunderstanding began when the publisher sent incorrect lyrics out to   
   the radio stations. Ironically, McCartney thought "body gun" worked   
   better, but he'd chosen "polygon" to tone down the song's sexual   
   suggestiveness.   
      
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