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Eureka Lyrics moments No.42578
Posted by latenitetellyvision on 24 June 2011 - 11:08am.
Simon Mayo played Kenny Rogers' Coward of the County last night on R2. A track that I remember my dad having on tape in the car when I was a kid. I don't recall hearing it often, if at all, in the intervening years.
Anyway, I remember that the Gatling boys beat up his Becky, which is why he realises in the end that "sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man"
Except that last night, it dawned on me what that verse is saying
One day while he was working
the Gatlin boys came calling
They took turns at Becky
and there was three of them
Oh.
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While watching the first re-runs of TOTP76
It struck me I'd never properly listened to the lyrics of Brotherhood of Man's Save Your Kisses For Me. An innocent enough ditty I thought, until the last line:
"Won't you save them for me, even though you're only three?"
My thought process was something along the lines of, "EURGH! THAT DIRTY PERVERT! HE'S SINGING ABOUT... oh wait, it's his daughter isn't it?"
If he wrote it now...
They'd all end up on Jeremy Kyle.
I wish the Gatling boys...
would pay him a visit.
I remember the interview
I remember the interview Kenny Rodgers did with Frank Skinner back in 99.
Frank points out when Kenny was singing it live, he had dropped the verse when Becky gets attacked; giving the impression he just goes a bit mental attacking the Gatlin boys for no apparent reason.