I was driving home from Wal-Mart a few minutes ago and had a local radio station playing on a classic rock station (yes, I do like this type of music) and Elton John’s “Benny and the Jets” came on. Now if there is a song with more unintelligibly sung lyrics, I do not know what it could be. I am personally thinking this MUST have been during Elton John’s relatively little known Quaalude period of the mid seventies. I went on the computer and looked up the actual lyrics and still could barely make heads or tails out of the song as it is sung.
Here’s a challenge for you. I’m printing the lyrics out and you go to this link http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=cc36632, type in “Benny and the Jets” and decide for yourselves.
Benny and The Jets by Elton John
Hey kids, shake it loose together/The spotlight's hitting something/That's been known to change the weather/We'll kill the fatted calf tonight/So stick around/You're gonna hear electric music/Solid walls of sound
Here’s a challenge for you. I’m printing the lyrics out and you go to this link http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=cc36632, type in “Benny and the Jets” and decide for yourselves.
Benny and The Jets by Elton John
Hey kids, shake it loose together/The spotlight's hitting something/That's been known to change the weather/We'll kill the fatted calf tonight/So stick around/You're gonna hear electric music/Solid walls of sound
Chorus:
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keen/She's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine/Aaah, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keen/She's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine/Aaah, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets
Hey kids, plug into the faithless/Maybe they're blinded/But Bennie makes them ageless/We shall survive, let us take ourselves along/Where we fight our parents out in the streets To find who's right and who's wrong
Chorus:
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keenShe's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine/Aaah, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets
Chorus:
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine
Ah ha, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets/Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
This all reminds me of a calendar I got one year that had all these popular songs and the incorrect lyrics people were singing to them. You know, “On a dark desert highway/Cool whip in my hair” from The Eagles’ “Hotel California” instead of “cool wind in my hair”. Admit it. If you’re under the age of 60, you’ve probably sung this song like that. Our minds love to put puzzles together. So when we sing along to Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze and sing “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” (“‘scuse me while I kiss the sky” is the correct line), it’s our brain trying to put the pieces of the puzzle in the right place. And if our brain doesn’t have all the right pieces, it just fills in with what sounds best. Amazing piece of equipment, isn’t it? To set the record straight, Jimi Hendrix was most likely not promoting homosexuality (to my the best of knowledge, which can be somewhat limited).
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keenShe's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine/Aaah, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets
Chorus:
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/But they're so spaced out,
BuhBuhBuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful/Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit/You know I read it in a magazine
Ah ha, BuhBuh Bennie and the Jets/Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets/Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
This all reminds me of a calendar I got one year that had all these popular songs and the incorrect lyrics people were singing to them. You know, “On a dark desert highway/Cool whip in my hair” from The Eagles’ “Hotel California” instead of “cool wind in my hair”. Admit it. If you’re under the age of 60, you’ve probably sung this song like that. Our minds love to put puzzles together. So when we sing along to Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze and sing “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” (“‘scuse me while I kiss the sky” is the correct line), it’s our brain trying to put the pieces of the puzzle in the right place. And if our brain doesn’t have all the right pieces, it just fills in with what sounds best. Amazing piece of equipment, isn’t it? To set the record straight, Jimi Hendrix was most likely not promoting homosexuality (to my the best of knowledge, which can be somewhat limited).
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