Did I hear that right? (Misheard lyrics)

[Freypower]

I've got one!

Until literally five minutes ago I thought the line in The Boys Of Summer was 'the sun is out of reach'. Answering the last post in Name That Eagles Tune I find it's 'the summer's out of reach'. I prefer the first version.

[sodascouts]

Reviving this thread as it was mentioned elsewhere...

Those Shoes:

"All those jerk-offs in their fancy cars"
or
"All those jagoffs in their fancy cars"

I vote the former... but I think it might be one of those cases where people are bound to hear different things, so everyone decide for themselves!

[thelastresort]

Never heard it as anything other than the former.

[Brooke]

Same here!

[VAisForEagleLovers]

I guess if you've never heard the word before, you'd never hear it in a song. My family was here yesterday and I asked them what the word was. Not only did they say 'jag-off', they looked at me like I was an idiot for asking. It came as a surprise to most of them that it's not a word said outside of the area, and that most people have never heard it before. Because it's a word we'd expect to hear in the lyrics at that point, they wondered if we heard what we expected instead of what was actually said. Until this discussion, it never occurred to me it could be anything else.

I've just listened to it five times with the Bose headphones. Even trying to hear an 'r', I just don't hear it. As I said, watching him in concert, you hold your mouth differently for 'jag' than you do for 'jerk', I'm thinking it's 'jag'. However, listening to the Millennium Concert, I do hear the 'r' on the same headphones quite easily.

Obviously, we need the HOTE tour on DVD so we can analyze this further.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I also think it's a case of hearing what we are most familiar with. I only hear it as jerk-off. Like VA's family, I'm surprised at any suggestion of it being anything else - just the other way around.

[GlennLover]

I also think it's a case of hearing what we are most familiar with. I only hear it as jerk-off. Like VA's family, I'm surprised at any suggestion of it being anything else - just the other way around.

I agree with you Dreamer.

[Funk 50]

The rarest record I ever bought was Ringo Starr's Old Wave album. In perfect condition it'd be worth an absolute fortune but I ruined it by dragging the needle all over it to, line by line, write down and learn all the lyrics.

Joe wrote the song titled, Be My Baby for the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e-fCsyDUB4

It begins;

Formal introductions
such a waste of time
Let's get down to business

Over 30 years later, I've found, Be My Baby on an internet lyric site.

Ringo Starr - Be My Baby Lyrics | MetroLyrics

http://www.metrolyrics.com/be-my-bab...ngo-starr.html

HORMONE IN PRODUCTION,
SUCH A WASTE OF TIME,
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.

Have I been singing it wrong all these years?

[VAisForEagleLovers]

Good one, F50!!

I've been meaning to mention to everyone and I keep forgetting, I've been getting malware warnings on the AZ lyrics sites. Folks may want to avoid those...

[Ive always been a dreamer]

My guess is that 'formal introductions' is correct.

And back to Eagles songs - I have one that I came across last week. In Midnight Flyer is it "Engineer, won't you let your whistle blow" or "Engineer, won't you let your whistle moan"? I think it's the latter.