Questions tagged [euphemisms]
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Is a “brown-eyed girl” black?
Wikipedia reports, of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”:
Originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl,” Morrison changed it to “Brown Eyed Girl” when he recorded it. . . . It has also been stated that the ...
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Blues and “big-legged women”
Several blues and rock songs refer to “big-legged” women, like Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”:
I don’t know, but I’ve been told
A big-legged woman ain’t got no soul
and Albert King’s “Born Under a ...
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