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A-HA! Just came across:
Bruce's lyrics were no paragon of clarity, but at least you could understand the words: "Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night." http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html
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Bruce Springsteen wrote "Blinded by the Light"?!?! really? 
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It was Manfred Mann that got everbody mondegrinning:
The Manfred Mann's Earth Band ("Quinn the Eskimo") did a cover version of the tune in 1976. It became a hit, no doubt because the band made the lyrics even more opaque than they already were. They changed the line in question to "wrapped up like a deuce."
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And for years I thought Eric Clapton's After Midnight was Captain Midnight. I still think I like "Captain Midnight" better! 
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hasn't been covered, perhaps, with the frequency of Dylan, but deserves respect for this, for "Because the night" (remember Patti Smith), and that comeback song he wrote for Tina Turner (no, it wasn't "Private Dancer", that was by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits), whose name I can't remember.
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