Eggcorn

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 23 01:01:06 UTC 2006


Spoken aside following the sung line, "... like waves on the ocean":

Like in a tycoon

heard in the song, The Sloop Dance, by The Vibrations, later covered
by a group whose name escapes me and renamed "My Girl Sloopy."

-Wilson
--
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass

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