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AUGH! I've been wanting to know the REAL lyrics for this line SOOOOOOOO badly, and:
Correct Lyrics:
"Wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Correct Lyrics:
"Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
Correct Lyrics:
"Wrapped up like a deuce, another motor in the night."
Correct Lyrics:
"Wrapped up like a deuce, you know the runner in the night"
Correct Lyrics:
"Wrapped up like the deuce Another runner in the night."
Correct Lyrics:
"Wrapped up like a deuce The runner in the night."
Shoot--I remember that these are called mondegreens because somebody or likely several somebodies, "heard" Lady Mondegreen where the actual words were 'laid him on the green'. But I can't remember the song or the artist.
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It was a poem by Sir Walter Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, I think.
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journeyman
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top billing with the most often misheard lyrics
Here's my candidate for "top billing":
"Jose can you see"
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Pooh-Bah
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My favorite was in church one Christmas, the music leader had apparently insisted that the choir learn to pronounce exelsius Spelling optionalcorrectly, ie with the x sounding as ch. With the result that 2/3 of the congregation heard "gloria in a Chelsea stable" and here I thought it all happened in a Bethlehem stable!
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Spelling optional
Well, maybe not quite *that optional. It's the missing c that's pronounced like a ch (being in front of an e and all like that) The x is pronounced like a ks or like a k(in which case the c is pronounced like an sh) depending on the whim of the director.
There's even some who would pronounce the x like a hard g, making it come out sounding like "egg shell seece".
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spelling optional what that really meant was that I decided to make correct spelling optional and not try to find the correct spelling somewhere out there in cyberville.  Exelsius came out as exemplar on the spell check.
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and Zed comes out as Zeffirelli, if you pay attention to Ænigma, our (t)rusty spell-check !! 
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>"gloria in a Chelsea stable"
That would be the Clinton carol?
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Jackie, I'm sure we wrote up the lyrics some time in the past. If'n I had one iota of talent of finding stuff in these million posts I'd go get for you.
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