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Re: Athena lyrics...again



>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 Beau McCrury wrote:
>From: Beau McCrury <Beau.McCrury@ucop.edu>
>Subject: Athena lyrics...again
>
>Hi all,
>I was listening to Athena over the weekend and was wondering
>if I could revisit the discussion a bit about lyrics.  It 
>was discussed on this list that the word in the phrase
>'She's just a girl, she's a ____' is bomb.  Are you sure?
>To my ears I always thought it was whore.  

 No,it is "bomb".Back in the 1940's this was quite a common expression to
describe an attractive girl."She's a bomb" or "She's a bombshell" meant the
same thing then that "She's a fox" or "She's a rocket" meant in later years.

                        Long Live Rock,

                               I.S.

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