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Based on cleome's mention of Spandau Ballet on "Kill This Thread" as well as this Mudcat thread, this topic is all about off-color lyrics that got past the censors, or not.

Are there any lyrics that you thought were suggestive when you first heard them but later learned that they were innocent?

Were there lyrics that left you scratching your head until you found out what they really meant?

In honor of Cat Steven's recent birthday, here's an example from his 1970 album, Mona Bone Jakon. According to Wikipedia, the title song is about a certain part of Stevens' anatomy:

I've got a mona bone jakon
And it won't be lonely for long

Back in the heyday of motown, a lot of groups sang songs that had certain words that were...cutting edge in the lyrics in the first refrain, and then changed to an extremely similar word but "safe in the second or third. The lyrics read straight on paper, but the singers would slur their dialects and use "naughty" words.

My dad used to be a DJ back in the sixties and laughed about it. People would "hear" the naughty word the first time, and then listen more intently to the rest of the song. It was just a tool, a hook, but it worked.

Can you think of examples, rickshaw?

I always thought "Chewy Chewy" by Ohio Express was an awfully nasty song. Partly because I misheard the word "scold" as "screw" for years. Even hearing the the song correctly it sounds oddly suggestive for bubble gum pop.

I wouldn't be surprised in "Chewy Chewy" does have a double meaning. After all, this is the same band that recorded "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy)."

Speaking of bubble gum pop, "Little Willy" by the Sweet was noted for its double-entendre:

Little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy around
Willy won't go
Try telling everybody but, oh no,
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Hint: They're not singin' about an annoying, diminutive friend. :rolleyes:

The temps had a few, but its been a couple of years since I broke any albums out by them. I think smokey and a few others had some as well.

Dang, now I'm gonna have to break out the old good stuff and be accused of being even older than I am,

When I was in elementary school, one time at gym they played the Chuck Berry song "My Ding a Ling"

My Ding A Ling video

Also on the bus to my high school, for the first week of school, the upper classmen would make the freshmen sing out the window:

There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off
There's another on my brother, whack it off
There's a dozen on my cousin's
I can hear the bastards buzzin'
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off

And the teacher wasn't suspended or fired?

I remember that song vividly and, even at the age of eight, I knew what ol' Chuck was singing about.

Please do. As a Temptations fan, particularly the Smokey years and the Norman Whitfield years I've never noticed this hook. In fact I've never heard of this practice, so some examples would be very helpful.