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Then why is it 'heavily' in my sheet music book? And that's what I hear & what I've always heard.
My book was published in 1977, just after the album was released. Not only the lyric is given as 'heavily' but it is 'heavily' in the actual sheet music page.
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Yeah, stop fighting guys....... it's Heavily.....
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I don't wish to argue & I'm sorry. I should say that I have never seen the Best Of Songbook which states the word as 'heavenly'.
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I don't think anyone's fighting. It's just weird because it sounds like "heavily" and obviously is listed as such in most sources... but it just doesn't make sense! Not to me, at least. "Heavenly" WOULD work there. I guess some of just don't want to believe that such great songwriters would have used such an awkward, nonsensical phrase! Unless there WAS some sort of private meaning or pun intended...? I would love to hear one of the guys answer this once and for all...
...although someone else can ask. I haven't forgotten that interview where Don ripped the guy a new one for mentioning that wine is not a spirit.
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Well - first of all, I'm not fighting ... I'm just debating and there is a difference. But, I do find it perplexing how anyone can be so adamant about which is correct when we have two "official" communications from the same company that don't agree. :shrug:
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Yeah, stop fighting guys.......
Perhaps I should have put one of these icons after my remark :fear: :hilarious: :lol: :stunned: :zzz: :crazy: :wink: :fingerwag: :fight: :???: It was meant as a joke.......sorry if my sense of humour is confusing to some! :worried:
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No worries, TG - we all know comments can be viewed incorrectly online. Sorry for taking it literally! :)
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Well - first of all, I'm not fighting ... I'm just debating and there is a difference. But, I do find it perplexing how anyone can be so adamant about which is correct when we have two "official" communications from the same company that don't agree. :shrug:
1. I haven't seen the Best Of songbook & I can't comment on what it says.
2. The Hotel California songbook was published first & I would have thought is far more likely to be accurate.
I don't like 'heavily' either but I can't persuade myself in any way that the word is 'heavenly' because that to me makes no more sense than 'heavily' even if it is used to mean 'reaching for the sky'. And in all the times I have heard the song & seen it performed live, I have never heard an 'n' in the place where it supposedly is sung.
So we might have to agree to disagree; those who think it's 'heavenly' I agree that it makes more sense, but I'm afraid I will stick with 'heavily'.
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Just to clarify: I would take "heavenly" to mean "sky high"... as in, ridiculously expensive bills. That's the way I've always seen it anyway, and that's why it makes more sense to me.
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And 'heavily' is just making 'heavy' scan: 'heavy' or 'large' bills. Yes, it's awkward.