Friday, June 5, 2020

More Misheard Lyrics: “Green Air, Now”

 In the era of environmentally conscious efforts all over the world to make the world’s ecosystem clean and nature-friendly, there must be a ton of compaines and agencies calling themselves “Green Air” but when I was a kid, the term Green Air only meant one thing: The refrain to the latest Fleetwood Mac stop 40 single!
The song in question was the Stevie Nicks penned (strange how so many of her songs are featured in my Misheard Lyrics posts) tune “Rhiannon”, which, for SOME reason, instead of the title refrain, my ears heard them drawling ‘Green Aiiiiiiiiir- NOW!”
Later when I learned they were saying Rhiannon, I tried to justify my confusion by saying, “But listen, it really sounds liek they’re saying Green Air!” to which my friend Larry listened for a second and exclaimed, “Oh YEAH!” then, “no.” D’OH