During this interim period, the band released the single This Is Not A Love Song in 1983, the song's lyric lampooning the ire from some fans and the music press over the band's movement towards a more commercial style.

Eric Burdon, lead singer of The Animals, claims to be the ' Eggman ' mentioned in the song's lyric.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

The interval act was provided by Dana International, who performed a cover of the Stevie Wonder song " Free ", which caused some controversy in Israel due to the song's lyric.

The song's opening lyric " I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop " is world-renowned.

The song's lyric says of Jerry Garcia, " he plays guitar like diarrhea ".

" As a result, the song's lyrics are progressively and painfully distorted as Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form that Tweedly will find acceptable " to the tiny tots " listening at home: " He don't, er, doesn't plant ' taters, er, potatoes … he doesn't plant cotton, er, cotting … and them-these-those that plants them are soon forgotting ," a lyric of which Freberg is particularly proud.

The song's first lyric is " Billy Barty had a party and everyone was there.

The lyric " shake it like a Polaroid picture ", along with the song's commercial success, helped to revitalize the Polaroid Corporation.

The quad mix features elements not heard in the standard stereo mix, including additional guitar work from Kath in " 25 Or 6 To 4 " and a different vocal take from Lamm in " Wake Up Sunshine ", the latter of which reveals a different lyric in the song's last line.

The song is essentially an instrumental piece and a vehicle for scatting and improvisational vocals, since, as the chorus ( the song's only actual lyric ) states, " ain't no words to this song / you just dance and hum along ".

Carey and Afanasieff sat together in a studio in New York, and over the course of two hours, composed the song's melody, lyric and concept.

The song's lyric, " we gotta fight the powers that be ", would be interpolated years later by rap group Public Enemy on their 1989 song of the same name.

" but changes by the record label resulted in the song's more optimistic title ( as evidenced by the new lyric of " There's got to be a morning after ").

The song's barbed lyric contains a volley of Redneck stereotypes, set to a classic country 3 / 4 time signature and begins with the couplet " He's a drug store truck drivin ' man / He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan.

Later, after the song's mix had just been completed by the production team, The Edge came up with a guitar part he wanted to add to the song's end near the lyric " Love is a temple ".

The song's " The Walrus was Paul " lyric is both a reference to " I Am the Walrus " and Lennon saying " something nice to Paul " in response to changes in their relationship at that time.

Lennon said that the fantasy girl in the song's lyric was an archetype he had been searching for his entire life (" There is no such thing as the girl — she was a dream ") and finally found in Yoko Ono.

The lyric works ; it keeps dragging you forward, it keeps pulling you to the next line, there ’ s an insistent quality to it that I liked .” Its lyrics sound effortless and conversational, but they also contain a complex sequence of cascading rhymes (" I have never known / The like of this / I've been alone / And I have missed ") that is responsible for the song's irresistible propulsion.

Hence the song's " mild dissonance " and " nasally sarcastic " key-changes have been said to complement the " suppressed bitterness " of Harrison's lyric, which features such self-referential lines as: " It doesn't really matter what chords I play / What words I say or time of day it is / As it's only a Northern Song.

The oak in the song's title refers to the wood from which British warships were traditionally made in the age of sail.

Comping refers to playing chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations.

* Third Eye Blind's song " Summer Town " refers to " Nabokov, Miller, and Tess " as the favorite fiction of the song's protagonist.

It is probable that the " Eagle " mentioned in the song's third verse refers to The Eagle freehold pub at the corner of Shepherdess Walk and City Road mentioned in the same verse.

The song refers to the Twilight Zone episode and the song's video features clips of it.

The song's title refers to the famous New York night club, the Copacabana.

The song's title refers to the unofficial first Flag of the Confederacy, the Bonnie Blue Flag.

He, however, changed the line " the city I live in, the City of Angels ", which refers to Los Angeles, to " the city I live in is beautiful Brooklyn ," to match his song's premise.

The song's subject matter refers to a man who descends into madness, taking out his anger on his family.

The song's fictional narrator is satirized ; the title of the song refers to the narrator's parent's decision to go to Club Med.

The nickname " The Hey Song " refers to fact that the only intelligible word in Part 2 is the exclamation of " hey ", punctuating the end of several instrumental phrases and repeated three times at the song's chorus.

The song's title refers to the chorus, " Won't you give me three steps / Gimme three steps mister / Gimme three steps towards the door ?/ Gimme three steps / Gimme three steps mister / And you'll never see me no more.

The song's title refers to the wires used to hold his broken jaw together.

During rehearsal, the jinghu player adopts his or her own signature version of the song's melody, but also must adapt to spontaneous improvisations on the part of the performer due to changed performance conditions.

With the second, he caused controversy at the 1982 contest of Miss Universe, which was being held in Atlanta, a city in the Southern United States ; the song's main issue was interracial marriage.

Joseph Lowery ( former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ) used a near-verbatim recitation of the song's third stanza to begin his benediction at the inauguration ceremony for President Barack Obama

Southerners who shunned the song's low origins and comedic nature changed the lyrics, usually to focus on Southern pride and the war.

As African Americans entered minstrelsy, they exploited the song's popularity in the South by playing " Dixie " as they first arrived in a Southern town.

** At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It ", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that " By the year 2020, no child will be left behind " which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gansta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

Though the song's official title, as printed on the album, is " Alice's Restaurant Massacree " ( pronounced " mass-a-cree ," not massacre ), Guthrie states in the opening line of the song that " This song's called ' Alice's Restaurant '" and that "' Alice's Restaurant '... is just the name of the song ;" as such, the shortened title is the one most commonly used for the song today.

Hall, long an area resident, says that the song's name derives from Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Davidson County near Bellevue, but he also states that the song was definitely not based on any occurrence there ; rather, he simply liked the sound of it.

Of the song's lyrics, Van Winkle states that " If you released ' Ice Ice Baby ' today, it would fit in today's lyrical respect among peers, you know what I'm sayin '?

Additionally, an urban legend states that during the recording of the theme to Thunderball, Tom Jones held the song's final note long enough to pass out.

Not only is the station independently owned and operated, and the most popular Christmas station in the Philadelphia market, it is the only station in the area to feature " Song Tags ," in which, at the completion of the song, a pre-recorded voice-over states the song's name and artist.