Misunderstood lyrics

[davemarc]

> From: Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm at SLIP.NET>
>
> Ok, I've never had a chance to ask anybody about this, and I hope
somebody
> out there remember it, because not only can't I remember the title of the
> '70s (?) song (it was a name, like Amanda or Aubry I think), but I can't
> remember the group who sang it.
>
> However, the chorus had a refrain that I always heard as either:
>
> Blinded by the light
> Revved up like a Deuxchevaux
> (Something, something) night
>
> or
>
> Blinded by the light
> Wrapped up like a goose
> Another runner in the night

You're probably thinking of Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce
Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light," which includes the haunting but
easily misheard lines:

Blinded by the light
        revved up like a deuce
        Another runner in the night

For more lyrics and other info, see

http://www.kissthisguy.com/real.html

d.