The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103986   Message #2124325
Posted By: Genie
12-Aug-07 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: Accidental names in songs
Subject: RE: Accidental names in songs
Not folk, but don't forget "You and me and Leslie ... "


(Aside:   I just had a 'mondegreen' moment while listening to the news as I typed.   At first I heard the reporter to announce an upcoming story about "a tax on elderly women in Washington DC," and I thought, "Gee, what are they gonna try to tax next!?"
(Turns out it was about "attacks," of course,)

Back to accidental names.
When my little bro and I were teenagers, we heard the Kingston Trio's version of "Southcoast," in which it seemed that the narrator had a pony named Lightning or maybe "Like Lightning."

My little bro, at least, couldn't resist saying the line as, "I saddled my pony, like, "Lightning," or as "... my pony, "Like Lightning."