“Hey, hey, hey (hey, hey, hey), I was Barney Rubble.
Down in Dixie, (hey, hey, hey), on a Sunday mornin’.”
I think I get it. This is some kind of “fish out of water” thing, right? I mean, we all know Barney is from Bedrock. Apparently you’ve been transported somehow to the some Southern state in the U.S.. I’m not really sure of the significance of it being a Sunday morning. Hmm.
Or maybe, you’re just saying you were Barney Rubble in a existential sense. Perhaps all of us are Barney Rubble.
“I am Barney Rubble!!”
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I’ve got nothing.
Anybody ever notice how Dan Abrams looks like that guy from Golden Earring in the Twilight Zone video?
Are we talking about the “Blinded by the light / Wrapped up like a douche…” issue?
Now I’ve freaked….freaks Follow.
Hey, hey, hey, I was Fat Albert.
If this song was recorded after 1989, I wouldn’t have heard it. Unless it was a country tune.
“One foot in the grave, one foot on the Pebbles.”
Consistent with The Flintstones theme, but I’ve always been puzzled at Petty’s description of abusing poor Pebbles.
McGehee, Amazon says it was released in 1985.
BTW: Tom Petty – Southern Accents – Rebels
Oh, we got another one, just like the other ones.
Another badass, another troublemaker.
I’m scared, ain’t you boys scared?
Oh, I wonder if he’s going to show us what bad is…
Come on, Google it people!
Well, I have quite a few of Tom’s tunes on my MP3 player, but that’s one I never heard of.
The scary thing about Tom Petty for me is, his songs are full of lyrics I was sure I was mis-hearing — but it turned out I wasn’t.
Fold.
You have probably covered Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers” already. It is my favorite misheard lyric because I don’t know anyone who got that shit right when it was first released. No one. And since there actually were stupid lyrics like “kissing baboons we hide in the dunes by the seaside”, one could naturally feel very free to reach for the absurd when trying to figure out the mysterious hook.
Jeux sans frontieres
She’s so funky, yeah. (the conventional wisdom)
She’s a funky ass. (my brother was dead certain that these were the lyrics)
She’s so fuckin’- a. (another popular favorite)
She’s a monkey, yeah. (my friend’s interpretation)
She’s an ugly ass. (my other friend’s interpretation)
Re: Games without frontiers
Frankly, I have no idea to this day what he is saying in that part of the song. I was around and aware when it came out. The lyrics I do understand are weird enough, really. I think it’s basically anti-war, though. I figured out that much.
So, haven’t covered it.
Cranky-d….Jeux sans frontieres is some French shit about borders. I think the French group Doctor’s Without Borders has a similar name. I don’t know WHAT Gabriel was smoking when he thought his core audience of stoners hanging out at the roller rink would manage to figure THAT out.