Twisted Lyrics :

For me it was Richard and Linda Thompson singing Wall of Death. I thought they were singing "I want to ride on your waterbed one more time." Somehow, that seemed more poignant to me!
Tom

I had my two sons in the back seat of the car and one of them piped up "Play every knuckle animal."
I was stunned, I had no idea what he was talking about, so I asked. It turns out he was talking about the Jim Steinman written, Air Supply recorded song "Making Love Out of Nothing At All."
We still laugh about that one.
On another trip my younger son asked, while we were driving through a nice neighborhood "Is itchy mansion around here?"
When we asked what he was talking about he explained "You know from the Gordon Lightfoot song, itchy mansion my name."
The song of course was, "Did She Mention My Name?"
Kids are great for this!!!

From "Smack dab in the middle" done by Ray Charles and also by Ry Cooder, I always heard (and worst, repeated) "pick me a town in any clime" as "pick me a town in decline". Seeing as though the lyrics that follow are "people like a rocking time" it made good sense to me that when things are not going very well in town you might as well rock. With that logic, looking at the decline of numerous American cities over the last decades, there should be quite a few rocking towns stateside!

Rcprince, I have an ongoing thing with my wife about "honey bunch". She claims it has to be "honey bun" as honey cant' be gotten by the bunch. Glad to see we hear The Four Tops the same way! BTW what is the correct expression?

According to my Google search, it's "Sugarpie honeybunch." Your wife's logic is sound, but then again, whoever said Holland-Dozier-Holland had to be logical? I kind of like my friend's version. Now that we have better playback systems, and the clarity (didn't say anything about musicality) of CD, I can actually make out the lyrrics on the CD too.

By the way, I have a friend who plays with upsampling and other tricks to make CDs sound a lot better. He once brought me a burned version of Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" which would lead you to believe that Brenda wasn't the sweet little teenager we thought she was when she recorded that song. I know the lyrics are "Later we'll have some PUNKIN' pie and we'll all go carolin'", but when you listen to his version it sure sounds like the "f" word instead of "punkin'". I played this for my friends at a party and at an audio society meeting, and you should have seen the jaws drop!