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Beatles forums => Songs => Topic started by: blmeanie on March 26, 2024, 10:54:07 AM
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So - we know of JoJo from the song Get Back.
first verse here:
Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass
I was in the car over the weekend and listening to...wait for it...some Beatles. Anyway, Back in the USSR comes on and in the bridge of the song here:
(Well) The Ukraine girls really knock me out (Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout (Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)
That Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind
Oh, come on!
I never knew it was "Georgia's always on my ..."
I always heard it as "JoJo's always on my ..."
So I got home and looked up the lyrics to confirm (sadly I was wrong for 50 or more years) and heard JoJo.
If/when I confirmed I was going to post here about JoJo and ask what the fascination was for Sir Paul and some random person named JoJo
BUT alas, I now have to grapple with different lyrics than I've heard for half a century...
Anyone else? Any other lyrics you've misheard for years and years?
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Yeah BM, I think it's like a pun on the famous song "Georgia On My Mind" by Ray Charles I think.
I Never thought it was JoJo ;D
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I can understand your misheard lyric, blmeanie. It does sound like Paul sang "JoJo's" on the album...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOYArc7mFiE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOYArc7mFiE#)
He sang it more clearly in Red Square...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JbLsYoL3ug# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JbLsYoL3ug#)
I heard it as "Georgia's" in 1968 as I'm of Russian descent and was familiar with the Soviet Socialist States he mentioned in the song...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Republics_of_the_USSR.svg)
Republic Map of the Union Republics between 1956 and 1991
1 Russian SFSR
2 Ukrainian SSR
3 yelorussian SSR
4 Uzbek SSR
5 Kazakh SSR
6 Georgian SSR
7 Azerbaijan SSR
8 Lithuanian SSR
9 Moldavian SSR
10 Latvian SSR
11 Kirghiz SSR
12 Tajik SSR
13 Armenian SSR
14 Turkmen SSR
15 stonian SSR
And like Kevin, I also recognized that Paul was having a bit of fun with the lyric "Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind" and paying homage to Ray Charles...
Georgia On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEXc9SFIPI# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEXc9SFIPI#)
1961
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That must be the map that Putin thinks still exists in 2014.
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Right, zipp.