Lyrics to "Electric Boogie" (aka "Electric Slide")
June 8, 2016 9:02 AM Subscribe
Can anyone make out the words to the rapping portions of the song Electric Boogie? They occur at 0:28, 1:40, and 3:09.
One of the things I like to do when I'm trying to decipher an unintelligible bit of youtube is to slow it down. You can do this by clicking on the little settings gear in the video, choosing speed, and setting it to 0.5. Sometimes this is helpful. (But even when it's not, worst case scenario is that the thing you're listening to just got hilarious, so not a whole lot of downside imo.)
Listening at half speed, I don't think I agree 100% of either of the suggestions above. To me it sounds like this is what she's saying:
Dig that Miss Kelly
With [that plump?] electric belly
She's moving [so? low?] electric
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
posted by phunniemee at 10:42 AM on June 8, 2016
Listening at half speed, I don't think I agree 100% of either of the suggestions above. To me it sounds like this is what she's saying:
Dig that Miss Kelly
With [that plump?] electric belly
She's moving [so? low?] electric
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
posted by phunniemee at 10:42 AM on June 8, 2016
Response by poster: Yeah, the lyric sites all have the same wrong words and the sheet music is almost, but not quite, correct. Thanks for the video slowdown tip, phunniemee. Watching her lips I get
(first and third)
Check-a that Miss-a Kelly
With that pumpin' 'lectric melleh
She's-a movin' long electric
(second)
Check-a that Miss-a Polly
She's-a jiggin' and feelin' jolly
She's-a movin' long electric
I'm guessing there's some Jamaican slang there that we're missing. "Melleh?"
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:05 AM on June 8, 2016
(first and third)
Check-a that Miss-a Kelly
With that pumpin' 'lectric melleh
She's-a movin' long electric
(second)
Check-a that Miss-a Polly
She's-a jiggin' and feelin' jolly
She's-a movin' long electric
I'm guessing there's some Jamaican slang there that we're missing. "Melleh?"
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:05 AM on June 8, 2016
Response by poster: (the canonical wrong lyrics come from the Angela Primm version, apparently)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:07 AM on June 8, 2016
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:07 AM on June 8, 2016
...It didn't even occur to me that the words were different every time. I was trying to resolve them into one thing that sounded like it fit. That makes a lot more sense now.
posted by phunniemee at 11:42 AM on June 8, 2016
posted by phunniemee at 11:42 AM on June 8, 2016
Could "melleh" be melody?
posted by freezer cake at 11:50 AM on June 8, 2016
posted by freezer cake at 11:50 AM on June 8, 2016
Bunny Wailer did a version on Solomonic Records, check that out as well and I'll give it a run through when I get back to my records, too.
posted by rhizome at 5:42 PM on June 8, 2016
posted by rhizome at 5:42 PM on June 8, 2016
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Jiggle-a-mesa-cara she's a pumpin' like a matic
She's movin' like electric
She sure got the boogie
posted by Betelgeuse at 9:11 AM on June 8, 2016