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blmeanie:
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?

nimrod:
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

Hello Goodbye:
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


He sang it more clearly in Red Square...


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...





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
1961

zipp:
That must be the map that Putin thinks still exists in 2014.

Hello Goodbye:
Right, zipp.

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