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Meanings of a Song, That You Never Understood
I was listening to Pancho an Lefty yesterday. Willie and Merle’s version of Pancho and Lefty. While I believe I understand the song or what I believe is the meaning, one line has never made sense to me. “And now you wear your skin like iron”. I have never been able to figure out the metaphor to that line. Many times I thought of armour, but it just doesn’t make sense to me in the context of the song. Anyone else know the meaning or have an interpretation of that line?
Or if you have lines from songs(or songs) that have never clicked post them up.
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12-12-2023, 07:29 AM
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And now you wear your skin like iron
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Tough skinned. To be not easily offended, I would think.
So many songs have metaphors or entire stories to them that are nothing about what we think they are. REM's 'losing my religion' means to lose one's cool or to have a fit in parts of the US. Collective Soul's December chorus is 'turn your head now baby just spit me out'. I forget the real meaning now but it wasn't what first came to mind.
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12-12-2023, 07:43 AM
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A line from sweet home Alabama song goes; now muscle shoals got the swampers. Anyone know what this means?
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12-12-2023, 07:55 AM
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A line from sweet home Alabama song goes; now muscle shoals got the swampers. Anyone know what this means?
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Some kind of referral to Muscle Shoals recording studio I would bet
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12-12-2023, 09:05 AM
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A line from sweet home Alabama song goes; now muscle shoals got the swampers. Anyone know what this means?
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Swampers were singers from muscle shoals alabama in the 60s. Can't remember their names
Now I have that song stuck in my head haha
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12-12-2023, 09:11 AM
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Pancho and Lefty is a great song written by a great songwriter!
Townes jokingly claimed it was "about two Mexican bandits I saw on the T.V. two weeks after I wrote the song."
R.I.P. Townes
For anyone that hasn't watched it, check out "Heartworn Highways", it's an amazing watch!
https://ca.video.search.yahoo.com/se...9&action=click
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12-12-2023, 09:12 AM
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OK, I'm going to derail this thread.  I keep hearing a song that seems to be a tribute to Ian Tyson , but I can't get the name or the singer. Starts out, It's Spring time in Alberta, like the Ian classic, the singer has a great voice, not like Corb Lund.
Grizz
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12-12-2023, 09:18 AM
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Thanks guys, that solves a several decades old mystery.
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12-12-2023, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams1
OK, I'm going to derail this thread. I keep hearing a song that seems to be a tribute to Ian Tyson , but I can't get the name or the singer. Starts out, It's Spring time in Alberta, like the Ian classic, the singer has a great voice, not like Corb Lund.
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I would be interested in the song as well. I love Ian Tyson songs. Its hard for me sometimes to listen to these new young fellows even if they are singing an old song.That corb Lund cows around isn't the worst though.
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12-14-2023, 05:32 PM
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OK, I'm going to derail this thread. I keep hearing a song that seems to be a tribute to Ian Tyson , but I can't get the name or the singer. Starts out, It's Spring time in Alberta, like the Ian classic, the singer has a great voice, not like Corb Lund.
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Paul Brandt maybe? Alberta Bound
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12-15-2023, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams1
OK, I'm going to derail this thread. I keep hearing a song that seems to be a tribute to Ian Tyson , but I can't get the name or the singer. Starts out, It's Spring time in Alberta, like the Ian classic, the singer has a great voice, not like Corb Lund.
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I think you are probably thinking of this song:
https://youtu.be/XKI58rpTZx0?si=lnG9wkjuw2eH1Ybo
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12-12-2023, 09:55 AM
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A line from sweet home Alabama song goes; now muscle shoals got the swampers. Anyone know what this means?
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The Swampers are or were a group of backup musicians at the Muscle Shoals recording Studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama.
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Bob Seger’s Night Moves. It’s about sex.
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12-12-2023, 12:13 PM
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What the hell was Gangnam Style all about?
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12-12-2023, 05:27 PM
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A line from sweet home Alabama song goes; now muscle shoals got the swampers. Anyone know what this means?
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There is a Netflix documentary that explains the swampers and the muscle shoals studio. Basically a bunch of white teenage kids that backed up a lot of stars, including Motown artist Aretha Franklin.
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12-12-2023, 10:54 PM
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Tough skinned. To be not easily offended, I would think.
So many songs have metaphors or entire stories to them that are nothing about what we think they are. REM's 'losing my religion' means to lose one's cool or to have a fit in parts of the US. Collective Soul's December chorus is 'turn your head now baby just spit me out'. I forget the real meaning now but it wasn't what first came to mind.
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That may actually make sense. He is supposed to live on the road to stay clean or pure. He has turned tough and cynical and turned to the bottle.
After all these years how didn’t I put that together? Thanks!!!
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12-13-2023, 06:08 AM
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" blinded by the light", the whole song.
Wtf?
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12-14-2023, 01:43 PM
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" blinded by the light", the whole song.
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Ha. I was just about to type that one!
Also, there is this new song that is trying to go around that sounds familiar but….
It starts with ‘O Canada’.
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Who knew?
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Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens. With explanation of the origin of the term:
https://imgur.com/gallery/6KaxZky
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12-13-2023, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by HyperMOA
I was listening to Pancho an Lefty yesterday. Willie and Merle’s version of Pancho and Lefty. While I believe I understand the song or what I believe is the meaning, one line has never made sense to me. “And now you wear your skin like iron”. I have never been able to figure out the metaphor to that line. Many times I thought of armour, but it just doesn’t make sense to me in the context of the song. Anyone else know the meaning or have an interpretation of that line?
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I think it just means thick skinned or not upset easily.
I use this song to teach similes and metaphors every year to grade 7 and 8 kids.
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Ooga Chuka Ooga Chuka Ooga Chuka
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Ooga Chuka Ooga Chuka Ooga Chuka
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This is what Rider fans say when they are wondering who their quarterback will be.
Whoodachuka Whoodachuka Whoodachuka
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Peter Gabriel. Sledgehammer”
Sledgehammer” is unabashedly about sex—big dippers, fruit cages.
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Not to derail the thread but on a related topic, brings us to John Fogarty - possibly the worst enunciation of any vocalist ever.
There's a bathroom on the right?
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I thought one line sounded like "wrapped up like a douche"
[Intro]
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
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Madman, drummers, bummers
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin'
The calliope crashed to the ground
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