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I just heard Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant openly proclaim to "have a little schoolgirl and she's all mine", which led me to creating this thread.

Thinking more along the lines of lyrics from the older songs that were initially innocuous, but now not so.

This thread is no place for recent songs just aiming to shock.

Anybody got any more?

EDIT: if this is deemed bad taste then please close.

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Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

With all the charms of a woman

You've kept the secret of your youth

You led me to believe

You're old enough

To give me Love

And now it hurts to know the truth' date=' Oh,

Beneath your perfume and make-up

You're just a baby in disguise

And though you know

That it is wrong to be

Alone with me

That come on look is in your eyes, Oh,

So hurry home to your mama

I'm sure she wonders where you are

Get out of here

Before I have the time

To change my mind

'Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far[/quote']

Seriously dodge, can't believe it still gets played on the radio, ditto My Sharona by The Knack:

Never gonna stop' date=' give it up.

Such a dirty mind. Always get it up from the touch

of the younger kind. [/quote']

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Well I've got a gal' date=' she's as cute as she can be

She's a distant cousin but she's not too distant with me

We'll kiss all night

I'll squeeze her tight

But we're kissin' cousins 'n that's what makes it all right

All right, all right, all right

Oh I've got a girl and she taught me how to live

She can give a lot and she's got a lot to give

We'll kiss all night

I'll squeeze her tight

But we're kissin' cousins 'n that's what makes it all right

All right, all right, all right

Yes we're all cousins, that's what I believe

Because we're children of Adam and Eve

I got a girl and she wants a lot of love

That's the kind of trouble I need plenty of

We'll kiss all night

I'll squeeze her tight

But we're kissin' cousins 'n that'll make it all right

All right, all right, all right

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Cousins, kissin cousins

Kissins allowed cos were proud to be cousins

Whats a little teasin, huggin and a-squeezin

Between us cousins.

Oh its so great to be one big family

And we show it, yes we show it

You see, we never feud, were a happy brood

Folks all know it, yes they know it

Cousins, kissin cousins

Honey we dress and we mess

Were just cousins,

Cousins, kissin cousins

Cousins, kissin cousins

[/quote']

Perhaps kissing cousins is OK in Tennessee, but not in most other places.

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A lot of you will be aware that Rich Hall did this in his Otis Lee Crenshaw guise but have you considered the lyrics to Jailhouse Rock in nowaday terms?

Originally Posted by Elvis Presley

The warden threw a party in the county jail.

The prison band was there and they began to wail.

The band was jumpin and the joint began to swing.

You shouldve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.

Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

Spider murphy played the tenor saxophone,

Little joe was blowin on the slide trombone.

The drummer boy from illinois went crash, boom, bang,

The whole rhythm section was the purple gang.

Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

Number forty-seven said to number three:

Youre the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

I sure would be delighted with your company,

Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.

Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

The sad sack was a sittin on a block of stone

Way over in the corner weepin all alone.

The warden said, hey, buddy, dont you be no square.

If you cant find a partner use a wooden chair.

Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

Shifty henry said to bugs, for heavens sake,

No ones lookin, nows our chance to make a break.

Bugsy turned to shifty and he said, nix nix,

I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks.

Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.

Everybody in the whole cell block

Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

Now Number forty-seven saying to number three: 'Youre the cutest jailbird I ever did see./I sure would be delighted with your company,/Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.'

This must equateto the precedent of an inmate actually asking permission to bugger a fellow convict?

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Guest Jake Wifebeater

There's plenty of candidates to choose from. "Jailbait" by Motorhead is pretty self-explanatory, as is "Playtime" and "Teacher's Pet" by Venom. I'd give the lyrics, but apparently they're "unacceptable" in today's society. Or, to use an even more stupid and woolly word for it, "inappropriate".

Seriously, I'm getting really fucking fed up with thin-skinned hand-wringers taking offence at the drop of a hat to something when it's not even them that's the subject of it. Not slagging the guy who started the thread, but this taking offence by proxy is ridiculously patronising. It's at least half the reason I wanted to start Wifebeater.

:up:

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Guest Steven Dedalus

I'm not sure "My Ding-a-ling" by Chuck berry was even acceptable when it first came out, never mind now.

Also, Van Morrison did a song on "Tupelo Honey" (but I can't remember the title, sadly) where he more or less gave the impression that his wife's only reason for existing was to be with him.

She felt different obviously, and left him.

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I'm not sure "My Ding-a-ling" by Chuck berry was even acceptable when it first came out, never mind now.

Surely My Ding-a-ling is nothing more than a bit of double-entendre fun? It's the musical equivalent of a Carry On film.

The only reason it would be unnaceptable would be the same reason it was unnaceptable in 1972 or whenever - because as a song it is, quite literally, ding.

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"Sitting on a park bench

eyeing little girls with bad intent.

Snot running down his nose

greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.

Drying in the cold sun

Watching as the frilly panties run.

Feeling like a dead duck

spitting out pieces of his broken luck."

Found out today that they're playing the music hall soon, should be fun like :popcorn:

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Guest Steven Dedalus
Surely My Ding-a-ling is nothing more than a bit of double-entendre fun? It's the musical equivalent of a Carry On film.

The only reason it would be unnaceptable would be the same reason it was unnaceptable in 1972 or whenever - because as a song it is, quite literally, ding.

It's a load of horrible, sexist filth!

It should be banned, and everyone who was invloved in the:

Writing

Recording

Publishing

Promotion

of the song should be taken out and shooted.

Sorry! I was reading the Daily Mail, and it seeped into my mind.

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Guest Steven Dedalus
She did have the incredible name of Janet Planet. I would dig out Tupelo Honey, but I think it is a bit patchy... I much prefer Saint Dominic's Preview and Veedon Fleece.

It is fairly crap, like.

yer spot on with those two albums, and someday, his 1980s back catalgoue is going to be re-assessd and people will see it as being forward looking and accomplished.

Just you wait and see....

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Guest Giles Walker

That Mungo Jerry tune 'in the summer time' has the line

"have a drink have a drive, go out and see what you can find"

Also the Prince Buster tune 'the ten commandments of man' is filled with gems.

"If you see me walking in the street with another woman, do not come over and make a scene but wait intelligently until i come home so we can have it out decent"

also

"don't bring attention to anything you may see in shops, for i will only buy you things you need for your purpose"

Infact just about every one of his commandments is pretty unacceptable nowadays.

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Guest Giles Walker
Born In The USA falls foul of the same thing ("to go and kill the yellow man"). Unless I've been mishearing it all these years and the song's actually about a bloke on a mission to kill Jeff Lynne...

Although that song is about the mistreatment of Vietnam vets an is quite antiwar from what i can gather.

So i don't think it's meant to be offensive, more like when Outkast say "Bob your head rag top" in Bombs Over Baghdad (also an anti war song)

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