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18 nov 2014
- Chino tradicional (Taiwan)
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Japonés
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Coreano
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Inglés (UK)
Pregunta de Inglés (UK)
Can anybody explain the meanings of the lyrics to me please?
Onomatopoeia by JOHN PRINE
Forty-five minutes
Forty-five cents
Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence
Singing, hey brother
Look what we got for you
We're gonna rope off an area
And put on a show
From the Canadian border
Down to Mexico
It might be the most
Potentially gross
Thing that we could possibly do
Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
We'll record it live
And that's no jive.
Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
Bang! went the pistol.
Crash! went the window.
Ouch! went the son of a gun.
Onomatopoeia
I don't wanna see ya
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
Knock! Knock! Hello!
Hey! We got a great date
It's really downtown
We're gonna get the Grand Canyon
To do the sound
It's a boxing ring
But it might be the thing
To really put you in the dough
Listen little brother, don't ya get us wrong
Why we even know the words to your song
Just say I do
And we'll lay it on you
You! You! And me! Me! Me!
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ5E2u_mq-c
Can anybody explain the meanings of the lyrics to me please?
Onomatopoeia by JOHN PRINE
Forty-five minutes
Forty-five cents
Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence
Singing, hey brother
Look what we got for you
We're gonna rope off an area
And put on a show
From the Canadian border
Down to Mexico
It might be the most
Potentially gross
Thing that we could possibly do
Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
We'll record it live
And that's no jive.
Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
Bang! went the pistol.
Crash! went the window.
Ouch! went the son of a gun.
Onomatopoeia
I don't wanna see ya
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
Knock! Knock! Hello!
Hey! We got a great date
It's really downtown
We're gonna get the Grand Canyon
To do the sound
It's a boxing ring
But it might be the thing
To really put you in the dough
Listen little brother, don't ya get us wrong
Why we even know the words to your song
Just say I do
And we'll lay it on you
You! You! And me! Me! Me!
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ5E2u_mq-c
Onomatopoeia by JOHN PRINE
Forty-five minutes
Forty-five cents
Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence
Singing, hey brother
Look what we got for you
We're gonna rope off an area
And put on a show
From the Canadian border
Down to Mexico
It might be the most
Potentially gross
Thing that we could possibly do
Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
We'll record it live
And that's no jive.
Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
Bang! went the pistol.
Crash! went the window.
Ouch! went the son of a gun.
Onomatopoeia
I don't wanna see ya
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
Knock! Knock! Hello!
Hey! We got a great date
It's really downtown
We're gonna get the Grand Canyon
To do the sound
It's a boxing ring
But it might be the thing
To really put you in the dough
Listen little brother, don't ya get us wrong
Why we even know the words to your song
Just say I do
And we'll lay it on you
You! You! And me! Me! Me!
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ5E2u_mq-c
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- Inglés (UK)
"Make them pubescents" -teenagers-"all wet in there pants" -a dirty way of saying sexually aroused"
"And that's no jive" - he's not joking
"Son of a gun" - it's an expression
"To really put you in the dough and well lay it on you" - dough is a slang term for money.
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- Inglés (UK)
- Inglés (US)
'Onomatopoeia' is when words resemble a sound. For example 'Bang' sounds like an explosion, 'crash' sounds like something breaking, and so on. It seems like the song is based on that. My mobile internet is too slow for me to watch the video.
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- Chino tradicional (Taiwan)
Yes, thank you for the explanation but I don't understand the lyrics.
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
And that's no jive.
the son of a gun
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
To really put you in the dough
And we'll lay it on you
etc...
Don't know what John Prine is trying to say in his lyrics.
Make them pubescents all wet their pants
And that's no jive.
the son of a gun
Speaking in a foreign tongue.
To really put you in the dough
And we'll lay it on you
etc...
Don't know what John Prine is trying to say in his lyrics.
- Inglés (UK)
"Make them pubescents" -teenagers-"all wet in there pants" -a dirty way of saying sexually aroused"
"And that's no jive" - he's not joking
"Son of a gun" - it's an expression
"To really put you in the dough and well lay it on you" - dough is a slang term for money.
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