[ SECRET POST #2433 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2433 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, wait, wait. It's "Cotton-Eyed Joe"? For the last sixteen years I've thought it was "Cottonide Joe". Whatever the heck that is. Dear god, self...*headdesk*

[(Anonymous)]

/pet pet

It's okay, anon. It's not like Cotton-Eyed Joe makes much more sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Cotton-Eyed Joe is an STD, so really, the song makes plenty of sense. It's just not something you should sing at birthday parties.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? We used to learn the dance every year in elementary school...

[(Anonymous)]

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe...

[(Anonymous)]

He's not herpes.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like gonorrhea to me.

[aubry]

Myth, I think? It's an old folk song originally.

[shortysc22]

That's what I always thought because Alabama sings about Cotton Eyed Joe in their song "If you're going to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band"

[(Anonymous)]

Erm...I think you mean that "cotton-eyed" is a possible reference to syphilis, but even taking that into account, it's still just about some dude named Joe. The song would make even less sense if "cotton-eyed joe" was an STD.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's actually an old american folk song from back before the American Civil War.

[(Anonymous)]

I figure it's just a way of saying he's soft-eyed; nice and kind and that's why women dig him.

[(Anonymous)]

Erm..."cotton eyed" usually either means drunk, or that your eyes [for whatever reason] have turned milky white in the pupil.

So basically it's saying either the drunk and/or blind guy is the reason [the narrator] hasn't gotten married. [I've always just assumed he was such a lech he drove all the women away from the town.]

[(Anonymous)]

Ah yes, misheard lyrics. One one hand, it's nice when you finally understand the lyrics - as in "oh, so that what it means, now it makes sense" - on the other hand, it has happened to me that I heard something wrong and it actually fit wonderfully, only to find out that the lyrics were different. That was sad.

[(Anonymous)]

That's actually the story behind this phenomenon's scientific name, namely a "mondegreen": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

I'm still mortified for going around singing "Sail on me" for the entire time "C'est la vie" was popular (way back when)...

[(Anonymous)]

....you....you mean it's not "sail on me"?

._.;;

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, nonnie. *hugs*

[anonymouslyyours]

I used to think a-ha's "Take On Me" went "Take a kneeeeee, take me on," I thought he was asking for a proposal, okay!

[dimestoresaint]

There are some songs I still sing wrong because dammit, my way's better.

[othellia]

I used to think Big Yellow Taxi (Paved Paradise) was singing about "Gay Paradise", so... yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

Big Yellow Taxi was one of the songs where I misheard more than one line of lyrics, really. Put up a parkinglot will always sound "put up a fucking lie" to me haha.

[kelincihutan]

Honey, if this is the biggest thing that's been wrong with your life, you're doing pretty good. (Not in a "First World Problems!!!1!" way, I mean. Just. This isn't really the worst thing you could get wrong, so I wouldn't sweat it.)