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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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A ‘rhinestone’ is an imitation diamond originally made near Strasburg on the river Rhine. I didn’t know that; at least, not until I looked it up. ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ is a song by Larry Weiss subsequently recorded by Neil Diamond then immortalised by Glen Campbell. We all knew that, or at least the last bit.
I suppose this is, if anything, a bit of a ‘pail’. You hear what you hear and assume that’s what everyone heard and there’s no need for anything to make any kind of sense. I can’t help but find alternative imagery, however unlikely; for example, a ‘rhinestorm cowboy’ has strangely Wagnerian overtones, a ‘rainstone cowboy’ has been out in very heavy hail and a ‘rhymestorm cowboy’ is a particularly prolific poet of the prairie. Unfortunately, the latter gets no hits.
rainstone cowboy – 23 ghits
rainstorm cowboy – 5 ghits
rhinestorm cowboy – 5 ghits
rhymestone cowboy – 9 ghits
rindstone cowboy – ghits
‘Grindstone cowboy’ (338 ghits) and ‘limestone cowboy’ (406 ghits) I won’t even mention…
Country. Rhinestorm Cowboy, Country roads, Tulsa time,. Baladen:. So bist du, Let it be, When a man loves a woman, Angels, Knockin’ on heavens door, ...
heartbeat-oldies.de/programm.htm – 15k – Cached
Temas principales: Be bop a lula, Stormy, My Sharona, Magic, Good Vibrations, Walk don’t run, Have a my baby, The coward of the country, Rainstorm cowboy, ...
207.249.66.210/newstore/mx_tienda_musica.php?aux=30 – 39k – Cached
I’d love to show up feelin like a real rhymestone cowboy…..maybe u should accompany 4 spiritual sport and highway convo… Jessica, Oct 25 2006 11:08P …
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59479936 – 166k – Cached
... big plastic things looking like diamonds on it and a terrible straw cowboy hat with a big plastic jemstone on it … and they sing “Rindstone Cowboy” . ...
www.slushfactory.com/forums/archive/ind …6028.html11k – Cached
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My favorite song substitution was one I heard (about) on the radio—think it was in Toronto, about a decade ago. An announcer was reminiscing about a call-in music show he hosted. A young woman, he said, phoned to ask if he could play the Stones’ hit “I can’t get no savage action.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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For those interested in misinterpreted lyrics, these quasi-eggcorns go by the name Mondegreens. We’ve had a brief mention of these here in the forum in the past.
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I love “rhinestorm cowboy.” I notice that all the hits come from German websites—maybe it is Wagnerian.
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