Monday, April 8, 2024
"Little Girl"
When I listened to Good Times! recently, I noticed a lyrical ambiguity in "Little Girl," specifically in the lines "Cheer up; I'll turn your frown sunnyside up / Come fill your cup." "Come" could be either a continuation of "I'll" ("I'll turn your frown sunnyside up / [And I'll] come fill your cup") or an imperative that's separate from the preceding line. The structure of the following verse (with its lines "Stand up; we'll go to town / Go for a ride") suggests the former, but I think the latter is also viable.
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Little Girl
Sunday, April 7, 2024
"Me & Magdalena"
A few weeks ago, I happened to read some of the lyrics in Bob Dylan's "Romance in Durango" (from the Desire album), and I noticed the phrase "me and Magdalena" in the first verse:
Hot chili peppers in the blistering sunDust on my face and my capeMe and Magdalena on the runI think this time we shall escape
Of course, this reminded me of the Monkees song "Me & Magdalena." The phrase stood out to me because, unless I'm mistaken, it's rather ungrammatical since the pronoun should come last ("Magdalena and me"). I listened to both songs recently, but I don't think there's really any connection between the two aside from this phrase. While it might be just a coincidental similarity, I thought I'd note it all the same.
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