Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis. Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans?

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Please help.

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

tane

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

as in octane

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

as in high octane

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

as in gasoline

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

And here I was thinking it was "taint."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Taint nobody's business if you do.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

In the CCR original I'm pretty sure Fogerty is singing "'pane" as in "propane."

In the Ike & Tina Turner version they do sing "'tane" as in "octane," etc.

But I've never pumped any kind of -ane so what do I know.

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

no, i'm almost positive he says tane. it kinda sounds like he is saying "tang" though. which is a whole 'nother ting. but i don't think he was the king of double entendres though. just the king of weird-ass accents.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Roland on the river.

― xhuxk (xhuck), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

bathroom on the right

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

^^^hahaha that's the way I always heard "BMR" and as well I thought it was "pumped a lot of tang" as in poon...paging Ted Nugent.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

pumped a lot of fuckin' water down in new orleans.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Did Fogerty make up 'tane for gasoline, I wonder?

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

it's possible! i've never heard it used as slang for gas anywhere else. could be a southern thing though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Not from our half of the 20th century.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

did fogerty actually have these jobs in these locations?
didn't alex chilton?

― mizzzell (mizzzell), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to it, it still sounds like "pane" to me.

According to Wikipedia:

The second line of the second verse has generated considerable confusion, and can be considered a type of mondegreen. Listeners have variously interpreted it as "pumped a lot of pain" and "pumped a lot of 'pane", referring to propane, which is commonly used as a fuel. The controversy was further fueled by Ike and Tina Turner's cover, in which Tina sings "pumped a lot of 'tane", referring to octane, the grading scale and chemical in gasoline. The author, Fogerty, finally laid the confusion to rest, saying, "Sometimes I write words to songs because they sound cool to sing. Sometimes the listener doesn't understand what I'm singing because I'm dedicated to singing the vowel, having fun with the word sounds coming out of my mouth. `Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans,' is a good example. I think Tina Turner sang `tane' instead of `pain,' as in a contracted form of octane. But I knew what she meant."

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

My new motto: "dedicated to singing the vowel."

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

so i guess i was just remembering tina's version? john fogerty is a weirdo. that much i know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you're too dedicated to hearing the vowel?

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

possibly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

and i probably heard tina's version first. i had that album when i was a kid. it coloured my expectanetions.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

elvis did a great version too. vegas-style, w/james burton.

actually when I was a kid I thought the word was "tank" as in gas.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I actually think I like Tina's version better, but that might just be me.

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized I need to let the Creedence back in.

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

i've always heard it as 'pane

― draining the pool for you (get bent), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

On a slightly related note - 'Oh, lord, stuck in a Lodi - - ?

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Saturday, 10 February 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

a state of mind, and also a place.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 February 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

stuck in lodi again, if that's what yr asking

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

After a night of excess, early the next morning, I was CONVINCED the lyric was "smoked a lot of jane down in New Orleans" when it came on the radio. Prophets, I tell you...

― Euler (Euler), Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

"bathroom on the right"

hahaha!!! it's always funny to hear/see!
drunken friends and i were doin that song karoke and that's what we sang!!! so, nostalgia #2815 moment achieved

― edde (edde), Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

First version I knew was neither CCR nor Ike & Tina, but The Bells (of "Stay Awhile" fame).
They sing 'pane. (And, oddly, reverse the order of verses two & three).

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

stuck in lodi again, if that's what yr asking

of course it is - clear as day now I know

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

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