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* "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel was mistaken for a pro-drug anthem. (Apparently, mentioning masturbation didn't help.) |
* "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel was mistaken for a pro-drug anthem. (Apparently, mentioning masturbation didn't help.) |
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** It's true; this was perhaps part of the reason that the song quickly became an underground hit. In fact, in one live recording the crowd cheers louder when he sings the "smoke your pot" line. As it turns out, Captain Jack was really a drug dealer who was always on the street corner near Joel's house as a child. One could presume the protagonist of the song to be a frequent customer of Captain Jack's ("so you stand on the corner in your New English clothes"), but the message ought to be pretty clear from the final verse, that the song is a bit of a cautionary tale (in a live version, he even added the line to the refrain "Oh, Captain Jack could make ya die toonight!"): |
** It's true; this was perhaps part of the reason that the song quickly became an underground hit. In fact, in one live recording the crowd cheers louder when he sings the "smoke your pot" line. As it turns out, Captain Jack was really a drug dealer who was always on the street corner near Joel's house as a child. One could presume the protagonist of the song to be a frequent customer of Captain Jack's ("so you stand on the corner in your New English clothes"), but the message ought to be pretty clear from the final verse, that the song is a bit of a cautionary tale (in a live version, he even added the line to the refrain "Oh, Captain Jack could make ya die toonight!"): |
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{{quote|And if you can't understand |
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why your world is so dead |
why your world is so dead |
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why you've got to keep in style |
why you've got to keep in style |
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and feed your head |
and feed your head |
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Well, you're 21 and till your mother makes your bed, |
Well, you're 21 and till your mother makes your bed, |
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and that's too long }} |
and that's too long }} |
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* "[[Puff the Magic Dragon]]" is about growing up and losing your childhood imagination, but since the song was written in the 1960s, certain subcultures just can't accept the idea that it's not about getting ''totally high on weed.'' |
* "[[Puff the Magic Dragon]]" is about growing up and losing your childhood imagination, but since the song was written in the 1960s, certain subcultures just can't accept the idea that it's not about getting ''totally high on weed.'' |
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