{"id":1646,"date":"2008-08-25T01:46:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-25T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:39:47","slug":"what-choo-talkin-bout-mr-drummond-lyrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-choo-talkin-bout-mr-drummond-lyrica\/","title":{"rendered":"What Choo Talkin&#8217; &#8216;Bout Mr. Drummond? Lyrical Inaccuracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the parent of a newborn child, I&#8217;ve been singing a lot of songs to the little bub. During diaper changes, I am fond of &#8220;I&#8217;ve been workin&#8217; on the railroad,&#8221; mostly because it&#8217;s long enough to last for the whole process. Except one thing bother me about the song: Nobody works on the railroad &#8220;just to pass the time away.&#8221; Seems to me that people worked on the railroad for a number of mostly miserable reasons. This reminded me of <strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong>&#8216;s song, &#8220;Dreams&#8221;, which hinges  on the completely erroneous notion that &#8220;thunder only happens when it&#8217;s raining.&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEi7GPkxfsE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Another number that comes to mind is <strong>Rhett Miller<\/strong>&#8216;s song, &#8220;Four Eyed Girl&#8221; (terrible video, but all I can find) in which he claims that NYC deli &#8220;Katz&#8217;s never closes.&#8221; But it isn&#8217;t open 24 hours, as anybody who has spent a late night in the East Village would&#8217;ve seen it shuttered, shattering dreams of midnight pastrami (uh&#8230;).<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXnNnAy04ec?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Here are <strong>The Posies<\/strong> with a cover of The Hollies&#8217; tune, &#8220;King Midas In Reverse&#8221;:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6TonF0CNB8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s King Midas with a curse, he&#8217;s King Midas in reverse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea of King Midas was that he thought it would be sweet if everything he touched to gold. &#8220;So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold: but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold cursed his prayer.&#8221; In this song, everything he touches &#8220;turns to dust,&#8221; the implication being that having your foot and drink turn to dust is worse than having them turn into gold. (Okay, I know it&#8217;s more metaphorical than that, but you probably get my point.)<\/p>\n<p><em>What other tunes can you think of that contain factual or conceptual errors?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the parent of a newborn child, I&#8217;ve been singing a lot of songs to the little bub. During diaper changes, I am fond of &#8220;I&#8217;ve been workin&#8217; on the railroad,&#8221; mostly because it&#8217;s long enough to last for the whole process. Except one thing bother me about the song: Nobody works on the railroad <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-choo-talkin-bout-mr-drummond-lyrica\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}