This Song that gets stuck in my head A LOT is "Cumberland River" by Dailey and Vincent. LOVE their music! If it gets stuck in my head as it often does, I find myself playing it on youtube over and over until it goes away. Sometimes it just makes matters worse and it is stuck longer. I don't mind, because I LOVE the song. Now I also have another thing on my bucket list and that is to go see that beautiful, lazy, long long Cumberland River !!! (I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, this would be on it!)Here it is for your listening pleasure...
HAHAHA....Just a side note. I need a hearing aid or two. I am not kidding. I have listened to this song over and over the past couple or so years and there is a line in the chorus that says "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', lonely as can be" and I misheard it as "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', bony as can be"...that lyric really bothered me. I thought, couldn't the songwriter think of anything else? I thought, wow, it is a hit the way it is, who am I to tell a songwriter what to write?
Then I decided that the word was "bonny" instead of "bony" and that Dailey and Vincent didn't know the word "bonny" and so pronounced it "bony". I even asked my kids and other family members if they knew what "bonny" meant. A couple had a vague idea kinda what it meant, and some of the others didn't. I was convinced the word was "bonny" and they were mis-pronouncing it...what arrogance on my part. HAHAHAHA....well one night I was listening to it as usual and when it came to that line, I heard "lonely".....LONELY.....LONELY....LONELY....made complete sense. Sure enough, when I looked up the lyrics that was the word. Why didn't I look it up first? I forgot I could....maybe I need some jellyfish for my memory too...I should have known, I have misheard song lyrics all my life. Haven't told any of the kids yet...I might. hahaha
HAHAHA....Just a side note. I need a hearing aid or two. I am not kidding. I have listened to this song over and over the past couple or so years and there is a line in the chorus that says "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', lonely as can be" and I misheard it as "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', bony as can be"...that lyric really bothered me. I thought, couldn't the songwriter think of anything else? I thought, wow, it is a hit the way it is, who am I to tell a songwriter what to write?
Then I decided that the word was "bonny" instead of "bony" and that Dailey and Vincent didn't know the word "bonny" and so pronounced it "bony". I even asked my kids and other family members if they knew what "bonny" meant. A couple had a vague idea kinda what it meant, and some of the others didn't. I was convinced the word was "bonny" and they were mis-pronouncing it...what arrogance on my part. HAHAHAHA....well one night I was listening to it as usual and when it came to that line, I heard "lonely".....LONELY.....LONELY....LONELY....made complete sense. Sure enough, when I looked up the lyrics that was the word. Why didn't I look it up first? I forgot I could....maybe I need some jellyfish for my memory too...I should have known, I have misheard song lyrics all my life. Haven't told any of the kids yet...I might. hahaha
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