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    Artist: Statler Brothers

    Song: Eve

    The Story: Don't eat the fruit in the garden, Eden,, It wasn't in God's natural plan., You were only a rib,, And look at what you did,, To Adam, the father of Man.

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    Artist: Queens of the Stone Age

    Song: You Can't Quit Me Baby

    The Story: You smell like goat, I'll see you in hell

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    Artist: Starship

    Song: Sarah

    The Story: All the b***h had said, all been washed in black

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    Artist: Iron Maiden

    Song: The Prisoner

    The Story: And my blunt is my ho now

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    Artist: Pearl Jam

    Song: Jeremy

    The Story: At home, drawing pictures, Of mounds of tots, With ham on top

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    Played it cool
    But I knew you knew
    That you'd be hittin' me, mmm mmm

    Artist: Fergie
    Song: Clumsy
    Real Lyric: Played it coolBut I knew you knewThat cupid hit me, mmm mmm



    The story:

    My kids (aged 6, 4 and 2) adore this song, and often sing along to the video... But I was disturbed by the use of the unattractive modern slang phrase "hitting me" {meaning "sleeping with")... as in "I'd hit that'. Such a tacky line for an otherwise cute song, I railed.

    My wife agreed, and between us we bowdlerised the lyric (for the kid's sing-alongs) to "you'd be with me", and hoped the kid's wouldn't pick up on the 'real' "hittin me" lyric.

    When I stumbled across the actual lyric on the web (and confirmed it via multiple searches) I deservedly felt like a complete wally...

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