Re: misunderstood lyrics

[Sroundtable@xxxxxxx]

> MANY PEOPLE want me to print the lyrics of the theme
> for the popular Jerry Bruckheimer TV hit "CSI." They
> simply can't understand them as sung on the air. A
> reader writes: "The lyrics sound as if they are
> singing 'New Orleans - umph, umph, umph, umph,' but
> the show is set in Las Vegas!"

This is not the first time I have heard the lyrics of WAY mis-heard as "New Orleans."  I'm from N.O. and I never had that impression of the lyrics even before I was a Who fan.  I just can't hear anything that sounds like "New Orleans" in that song.

Mc