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[4ARedOctober Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close 4ARedOctober]

LOL Steve....here we go back again to what is always on a male's mind.

You still haven't told me who the high heeled boys are? I figured you would know if anyone on here. And who is that pakalolo man song by?

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

LOL Steve....here we go back again to what is always on a male's mind.

You still haven't told me who the high heeled boys are? I figured you would know if anyone on here. And who is that pakalolo man song by?

Hey - Ethel Waters sang the song! I guess that was before she started singing in Billy Graham evangelistic crusades! (Though she does mention "God's gift")

Can't help with the high-heeled boys and the pakololo songs - those are outside the genres I'm most familiar with.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

I always interpreted in context...the whole scene, the opportunity and the both of them at that point in time...that is the 'such a fine sight to see'

Could Be.

My DH thinks he's referring to the girl.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

You would think at first, that he was referring to the girl. However, the way that it's written....not a new sentence. It would lead you to believe that he was referring to himself. He looked so good, standing there, that the girl slowed down to look at him.

Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see

It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me

No way! It's the girl! The girl in the flatbed Ford is the such a fine sight to see--both because it's a girl and because she's slowing down to look at him and he's going to get a ride from her!

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Context folks. Let's go back to what's pretty much always on a guys mind when he sees a girl. Not likely that he's thinking "I'm a fine site to see".

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Context folks. Let's go back to what's pretty much always on a guys mind when he sees a girl. Not likely that he's thinking "I'm a fine site to see".

Right. SHE'S the fine sight. Even egotistical Jackson Browne thinks she's a fine sight.

That song always seemed completely clear and linear to me. He's telling a story. I had no idea there was a debate about it.

Why are we not discussing "Go Ask Alice"?

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice
When shes ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall

Tell them a hookah-Smoking caterpillar
has given you the call
Call Alice when she was just small
When the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go

And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen SLOPPY dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's LOST her head
Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head
Feed your head

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Right. SHE'S the fine sight. Even egotistical Jackson Browne thinks she's a fine sight.

That song always seemed completely clear and linear to me. He's telling a story. I had no idea there was a debate about it. ..

Also, errors often occur in transcribing lyrics.

For example, Lyrics On Demand renders that phrase:

Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
With such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me

LyricsFreak and LyricsMania also show the lyrics that way.

That version makes a lot more sense to me, and it's also closer to the way I remember hearing the lyrics (though I must say I never listened that closely because I never knew this was a point of debate) - until this discussion I've always thought the lyrics were:

Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.
It's such a fine sight to see;
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me

And when I listen to it at Jackson Browne's web site it sure sounds to me a lot more like "with" than "and".

[Faust Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Faust]

Why are we not discussing "Go Ask Alice"?

The name of that song is (white rabbit).

[BocaBum99 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BocaBum99]

The name of that song is (white rabbit).

Do you swallow the Blue Pill or the Red Pill?

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Why are we not discussing "Go Ask Alice"?

I never found that song the least bit ambiguous. That one's just about as subtle as Jim Morrison and The Doors singing "She's a "Twentieth Century Fox'".

[BocaBum99 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BocaBum99]

Also, errors often occur in transcribing lyrics.

For example, Lyrics On Demand renders that phrase:

Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
With such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me

That version makes a lot more sense to me, and it's also closer to the way I remember hearing the lyrics (though I must say I never listened that closely because I never knew this was a point of debate) - until this discussion I've always thought the lyrics were:

Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.
It's such a fine sight to see;
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me

You can't even rely on how the song was sung, because often small words like that get rendered differently between takes. I guess that to be sure, someone would need to get the actual published lyrics.

I listened to the song at least 100 times to isolate this phrase.

As a kid, I always that he was singing:

Well I'm a standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
I'm such a fine sight to see;
It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me.

I am quite sure that he is NOT singing "with" or "it's." That is not what is recorded on the original album. Only "and" or "I'm" sounds right.

Since I was singing the song that way for 20 years, my wife laughed at me and told me that I had the word wrong. That's how this debate got started.

She told me that didn't make any sense since nobody would be that conceited.

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I listened to the song at least 100 times to isolate this phrase.

As a kid, I always that he was singing:

Well I'm a standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
I'm such a fine sight to see;
It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me.

I am quite sure that he is NOT singing "with" or "it's." That is not what is recorded on the original album. Only "and" or "I'm" sounds right.

Since I was singing the song that way for 20 years, my wife laughed at me and told me that I had the word wrong. That's how this debate got started.

She told me that didn't make any sense since nobody would be that conceited.

Listen to it on the link I provided above. That link is off the web page for "The Very Best of Jackson Browne".

sounds the same on the sample from "For Everyman".

[BocaBum99 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BocaBum99]

Listen to it on the link I provided above. That link is off the web page for "The Very Best of Jackson Browne".

Nah, been there. Done that. I'll let someone else listen and make a determination. Depending on the version you listen to. It could sound different every time.

[Faust Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Faust]

I don’t know who the fine sight to see is anymore, Jackson Brown or the girl in a flatbed Ford.

The next time one of us sees Jackson Brown we will just have to ask.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

So is this the girl in the flatbed Ford?