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Thread #38155   Message #3051828
Posted By: GUEST
12-Dec-10 - 12:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Origins: Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Origins: Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
Motivatin' could be chuck's tongue-in-cheek wordplay with the already in use adjective auto-motive (mobile and motive having the same root in Latin ) so as to make the act of driving into something more serious and "chic";
Note the rhytmic quality of the syllables Mo ti va ting .