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| From | Phil Gill <mu51cal@philgill.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V5 #368 (9 msgs) |
| Date | Thu, 24 May 2007 20:24:04 +0100 |
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Sorry Bob, can't place the phrase.
But I do know that The Boxtops' opening line on their big hit was:
"Gimme a chicken or an aeroplane..."
Phil.
On 24 May 2007, at 19:23, Bob Hutton wrote:
> "Bob, I think in Sir Macca's defence it's actually:
>
> "And if this ever-changing world in which we're living ... "
> In light of the revelation that what I interpreted as poor grammar
> from Macca was actually a mondegreen (is that the word?) on my part, I
> will quietly don my idiot cap and go stand in the corner.
>
> But not before offering up my favourite clunky lyric:
>
> "Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude" ... so eloquent, so
> wordy, so ... erm ... 6th form schoolboy poetry.
> Can you name the guilty party? No cheating now ...
>
> B
>
>
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