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eyelid hey thing
rink and dull
two may queue
jelly us off me

but the room
just filled up
with mosquitos

Oscotarach wrote:eyelid hey thing
rink and dull
two may queue
jelly us off me

but the room
just filled up
with mosquitos

Okay.. I've decided to change my comment, since I'm now bored with it.

here's my new one:

you be funny. that's it.

eyelid hey thing (perhaps a stroke – or severe boredom)
rink and dull (ladies curling)
two may queue (sports bar/ to much beer / two men, one stall / strange dude smiling at urinal)
jelly us off me (jelly = green, also a most awesome new verb – I shall try to work it into conversation throughout day)

but the room
just filled up
with mosquitos

Hummm….
There’s something familiar about the second stanza...

Oscotarach wrote:eyelid hey thing
rink and dull
two may queue
jelly us off me

but the room
just filled up
with mosquitos

I have just listened to the opening of this song, and leonard does actually sing these exact words that oscotarach has faithfully transcribed - except that leonard mispronounces 'mosquitos' and sings instead 'musquitos'. they call them gnats in canada, so he was probably unaquainted with that word. he couldn't sing gnats though, because he needed three syllables and 'gnat' only has one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iels3GLw-zs

gerr
nerr
ats

Animal Lover wrote:gerr
nerr
ats

yes, quite. incidentally, in the same song he mispronounces 'prescription' (he sings 'perscription'). it would be interesting to see one or two of his old end-of-term school reports to see if his english teacher ever commented upon his verbal pronunciation competency. when i was at school we had to read a passage from a book and the teacher would give us marks out of ten. i always got ten out of ten, of course, and it was funny to hear people say 'cannery' instead of 'canary' - ha ha ha!!!

it doesn't sound like that at all Geoffrey ... rink and dull

by the way I did a quick survey during Easter dinner yesterday and prescription is pronounced per or pur scription expect by husband who says prescription but I think that was just because he was thinking about it.

Cate wrote:by the way I did a quick survey during Easter dinner yesterday and prescription is pronounced per or pur scription expect by husband who says prescription but I think that was just because he was thinking about it.

the link below should work if you copy it in one line and paste it into the address bar of your web browser, and press enter. then go to 'ballad in plain d' - and if you are paying attention at 1:30 you will clearly hear 'scrapegoat' instead of 'scapegoat'. people make mistakes; there's a crack in everything - that's how the blight gets in.

http://listen.
grooveshark.com/#/album/Another+Side+Of+Bob+Dylan/3473110?src=5

I sometimes understand how people so deeply appreciate Bob Dylan. That was beautiful but sad.

Your right, he very clearly says scrape goat. I think he's playing with words - scrape like something you scrape off the side of a bowl or the side of the wall. The written lyrics say scapegoat ... clearly they did not listen as well as you - scapegoat doesn't make as much sense as scrapegoat.