"Just like the one-winged dove..."

ka10 · #1 10-26-2005, 03:58 PM

I swear, every non-Stevie friend, coworker, and family member I know thinks that what the lyric is until I correct them. Anybody else find that, too? I guess I can see how it would sound like "one" to the uninitiated, but I always ask these people, "Seriously, did it ever occur to you that that doesn't make any sense...?"

~Kat

stargazer99 · #2 10-26-2005, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ka10

I swear, every non-Stevie friend, coworker, and family member I know thinks that what the lyric is until I correct them. Anybody else find that, too? I guess I can see how it would sound like "one" to the uninitiated, but I always ask these people, "Seriously, did it ever occur to you that that doesn't make any sense...?"

~Kat

Umm, I actually thought that was what she was singing for the longest time. I was only a casual Stevie fan back in the 80's, and wasn't a huge fan of this song. It really sounded to me like she was singing "one winged dove". I did think that was pretty f*cked up!

rbs3676 · #3 10-26-2005, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ka10

I swear, every non-Stevie friend, coworker, and family member I know thinks that what the lyric is until I correct them. Anybody else find that, too? I guess I can see how it would sound like "one" to the uninitiated, but I always ask these people, "Seriously, did it ever occur to you that that doesn't make any sense...?"

~Kat

I have come up against this as well...many times, actually! And I am always left thinking...do these people REALLY pay attention to what they are singing?

It cracks me up!

rbs

SortaSavageLike · #4 10-26-2005, 04:24 PM

Thank God for online lyrics sheets....

I used to hear things like "He was no more than a baby then... someday we'll kill him!" "Sometimes to be near you is to be your...A-hole!" in Eo17!

I'm still gonna swear to the day I die that it's "unable to feel you" and not "unable to hear you".

Livia · #5 10-26-2005, 07:18 PM

Rosie O'Donnell thought it was "one winged dove" also...remember when Stevie was a guest on her show - and Rosie kept pushing buttons at her desk that would cue up Stevie songs, and Rosie was singing along? She even held up one finger while she sang it.

Livia · #6 10-26-2005, 07:19 PM

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... someday we'll kill him!" "Sometimes to be near you is to be your...A-hole!" in Eo17!

Now THAT is frickin' hilarious!

DavidMn · #7 10-26-2005, 07:32 PM

That's like I always used to think Jimi Hendrix was gay cause I thought he was saying Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

stargazer99 · #8 10-26-2005, 08:09 PM

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That's like I always used to think Jimi Hendrix was gay cause I thought he was saying Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

I love this site!

Apparently, there are many different ways people have heard "Just like the white winged dove"

SortaSavageLike · #9 10-26-2005, 08:35 PM

To be honest, I too used to hear "one winged dove". Hey, I was ten when I first heard the song (I guess I was deaf the first nine years) and Stevie sounded pretty pissed off, you know, and I thought "gee, a one-winged dove wouldn't sound too happy either!"

snowman · #10 10-26-2005, 09:31 PM

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That's like I always used to think Jimi Hendrix was gay cause I thought he was saying Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

Or how 'bout Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water":
Smoke on the water, and fire in the sky..
has been heard as:
Slow motion Walter, the fire engine guy...

ka10 · #11 10-26-2005, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by stargazer99

Umm, I actually thought that was what she was singing for the longest time.

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Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

To be honest, I too used to hear "one winged dove".

Really?

I'm not immune to mis-heard lyrics myself (I can't even begin to tell you what I thought the words to "Seven Wonders" were before I finally looked them up!), but I find it very odd that this, which seems to be the most popular, isn't one of mine. Maybe I heard someone else sing it the right way early in my Stevie-fandom. Or maybe I'm just some idiot bird-savante whose kinship with our feathered friends goes beyond all conscious understanding...

~Kat

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Arthur: "The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?"

Soldier #1: "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

snowman · #12 10-26-2005, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by stargazer99

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

I love this site!

Apparently, there are many different ways people have heard "Just like the white winged dove"

I just went to this site and laughed so hard I p'd my pants. Hilarious!!!

catinthedark · #13 10-26-2005, 10:43 PM

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Umm, I actually thought that was what she was singing for the longest time.

Me, too. I was only 11 when it came out... I thought it was one winged dove for a long time.

realcowgirl · #14 10-27-2005, 12:13 AM

I have a friend who was convined the name of the song was White Winged Dove. Her boyfriend told her it wasn't, but that he didn't know the name, so she called me.

And my boyfriend thought she was singing "sings a song, sounds like she's singing . . .coooo...cooo....cooo..."

Because that is what a bird would say!!

Livia · #15 10-27-2005, 12:15 AM

I had someone call me today, "What's that FM song that goes 'you could be my silver spring...' and what album is it on?"