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Thread #139599   Message #3206816
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Aug-11 - 04:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fan Me Saga Boy (Roaring Lion)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fan Me Saga Boy (Roaring Lion)
Yeah, I even had second thoughts about whether I should have posted it as I did, or maybe I should have spelled it "c**t." Ordinarily I don't worry about such things, but this is the first time I've heard THAT word in a song. But I listened to it several times, and I really couldn't hear it any other way.

The song doesn't even seem to be trying to be shocking with its language. That's the only time where he uses such a blunt word, while elsewhere he says things like "torpedo" when he obviously means something else. It certainly is puzzling. Maybe the "c-word" doesn't have such awfully obscene connotations in Jamaican colloquial speech. Maybe the record producers allowed it because they didn't understand it! Maybe I misunderstood it—but I'd love to know what the word really was, if anybody has any suggestions.

I don't blame anyone for not wanting to sing the song "as is" but if you like the song for other reasons, say, for the music, I see nothing wrong with changing the song however you like to make it more acceptable.