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* In ''The Silent World'', JacquesCousteau writes about his team diving "naked" on several occasions, that is, wearing only swim trunks and aqualungs (we might say "half-naked" today). There are similar descriptions of Namor as "naked" in the early SubMariner comics even though he wore his speedo-thing. In the 1940s and 50s, that was apparently close enough to naked to be described as such.
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** "Venus" by Frankie Avalon: Venus, if you will, please send a little girl for me to thrill.
** "Sheila" by Tommy Roe: Man, this little girl is fine.
** "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles: I'm so glad that she's my little girl.
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* The "Barney Google Foxtrot" was a very popular 1920s song about the newspaper comic character BarneyGoogle ("with the goo-goo-googly eyes"). It includes he line "She sued Barney for divorce, now he’s sleeping with his horse!" Of course, "sleeping" is to be interpreted literally, at least in reference to the horse.
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* The "Barney Google Foxtrot" (with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)" was a very popular 1920s song about the newspaper comic character BarneyGoogle ("with the goo-goo-googly eyes"). Barney Google (whose strip is now dominated by his cousin Comics/SnuffySmith). It includes he line "She "[his wife] sued Barney for divorce, now he’s sleeping with his horse!" Of course, "sleeping" is to be interpreted literally, at least in reference to the horse.
''literally''.
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Come on guys, that doesn\'t even make physical sense! But then again, the Gutter isn\'t exactly the place for rational thought...
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** Though the context has a little less AccidentalInnuendo to it, in Music/TheBeachBoys' "Surfer Girl", Brian Wilson promises the subject of the song that "in my Woody I would take you everywhere I go".
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** Though the context has a little less AccidentalInnuendo to it, in Music/TheBeachBoys' "Surfer Girl", Brian Wilson Music/BrianWilson promises the subject of the song that "in my Woody I would take you everywhere I go".
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** Frankie Lymon And The Teenager's "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"
--> ''Why do birds sing so gay, And lovers await the break of day?''
--> ''Why do birds sing so gay, And lovers await the break of day?''
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-->...There are others living about us
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* The popular hymn "Farther Along" (written in 1911):
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* The popular hymn "Farther Along" (written in 1911):
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* The song "To Know Him/Her Is To Love Him/Her" by Phil Spector includes the casual line "I'll make love to her/him", then obviously having the older meaning.
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* George Jones's song "A Rose from the Bride's Bouquet" takes on rather a different context when looked at from this light:
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* GWAR does this in ''The Horror of [[EldritchAbomination Yig]]''. Odd considering that this isn't an old song, and the slang term existed when it came out:
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* People are still doing [[http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-i-care-about-some-velvet-morning.html analyses of Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"]], heavy on the implications of "straight" and "gate".
* "Kentucky Gambler" by MerleHaggard (written by DollyParton): "Into the gay casino in Nevada's town of Reno."
* "Kentucky Gambler" by MerleHaggard (written by DollyParton): "Into the gay casino in Nevada's town of Reno."
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* People are still doing [[http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-i-care-about-some-velvet-morning.html analyses analyses]] of Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"]], Morning", heavy on the implications of "straight" and "gate".
* "Kentucky Gambler" byMerleHaggard Music/MerleHaggard (written by DollyParton): "Into the gay casino in Nevada's town of Reno."
* "Kentucky Gambler" by
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* Ian Dury's "I Want To Be Straight", although it's deliberate. It even uses "bent" to mean "addicted to drugs". Ian was bisexual, thus he deliberately phrased this song in such a way that could be about either homosexuality or drug use.
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* Ian Dury's {{Ian Dury| And The Blockheads}}'s "I Want To Be Straight", although it's deliberate. It even uses "bent" to mean "addicted to drugs". Ian was bisexual, thus he deliberately phrased this song in such a way that could be about either homosexuality or drug use.
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* George Carlin distinguished what "fag" and "queer" were on his album ''Occupation: Foole'' (1973). A fag was orginally a term for a sissy who wouldn't do guy things but was not "gay" as we know it. The difference, he says, is that "a fag wouldn't go downtown with you to beat up queers."
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* George Carlin Creator/GeorgeCarlin distinguished what "fag" and "queer" were on his album ''Occupation: Foole'' (1973). A fag was orginally a term for a sissy who wouldn't do guy things but was not "gay" as we know it. The difference, he says, is that "a fag wouldn't go downtown with you to beat up queers."
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** There's also "the businessmen slowly get stoned," which is being used to mean "drunk" rather than under the influence of other drugs.
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* In Billy Joel's Piano Man, the businessmen slowly get stoned. They're ''probably'' getting drunk, not using marijuana.
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** In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the singer advises himself to "smile and pretend to be gay" when the unrequited object of his affections approaches.
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--> Down the way where the nights are gay and the sun shines daily on the mountaintop...
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** Though the context has a little less AccidentalInnuendo to it, in Music/TheBeachBoys' "Surfer Girl", Brian Wilson promises the subject of the song that "in my Woody I would take you everywhere I go".
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** Jail Bait probably, Lolicon ... probably not. There are several lines that outright state the girl in question is deliberately attempting to appear older than she actually is, which would be a turn-''off'' to a Lolicon.
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* George Carlin distinguished what "fag" and "queer" were on his album ''Occupation: Foole'' (1973). A fag was orginally a term for a sissy who wouldn't do guy things but was not "gay" as we know it. The difference, he says, is that "a fag wouldn't go downtown with you to beat up queers."
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** A more contemporary example is Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "All Apologies": "What else should I say/everyone is gay".
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Oh, Gaye; I can\'t last another day, without you...
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** Music/DeanMartin's song "That's Amore" has the lyrics "Tippy-tippy-tay/Like a gay tarantella". Creator/OrsonWelles [[DramaticReading had a field day with this]] at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
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** Music/DeanMartin's song "That's Amore" has the lyrics "Tippy-tippy-tay/Like "Hearts will play, Tippy-tippy-tay, Tippy-tippy-tay/Like a gay tarantella". Creator/OrsonWelles [[DramaticReading had a field day with this]] at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
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** Dean Martin's song ''That's Amore'' has the lyrics "''Tippy-tippy-tay''/''Like a gay tarantella''". Mocked by Creator/OrsonWelles at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
--> "''Like a '''gay''' tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about!''"
--> "''Like a '''gay''' tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about!''"
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** Dean Martin's Music/DeanMartin's song ''That's Amore'' "That's Amore" has the lyrics "''Tippy-tippy-tay''/''Like "Tippy-tippy-tay/Like a gay tarantella''". Mocked by tarantella". Creator/OrsonWelles [[DramaticReading had a field day with this]] at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
-->"''Like ''"Like a '''gay''' tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about!''"about!"''
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* [[ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap's]] "Cups And Cakes" uses "gay" in the sense of "happy" (what a gay time it will be"). The song was released in 1984, but in the world of the mockumentary it's from, it's supposed to be a song from in the 60's.
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-->Number one was very gay
-->And he built his house of hay
-->With a hey hey toot
-->He blew on his flute
-->And he played around all day.
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* The Secret Origin version of the song "Hate Everyone" by Music/SayAnything.
--> ''I hate: my best friend from third grade who tricked me into saying I was gay in front of the whole class because I- I just thought it meant happy.''
* Some younger tropers assume that the song "The Lady is a Tramp" is an example of this, because the "tramp" once only meant "hobo", not "promiscuous woman". But the slang meaning was already very well-known when the song was written in 1937, and the song deliberately uses that meaning - the singer is [[SarcasmMode comparing herself to a prostitute]] because she doesn't follow every little arcane rule of contemporary New York society etiquette. It's very much "I don't use the right fork; guess that makes me a dumb slut, huh?" with a touch of plausible deniability - the writers could claim they meant "hobo" if any MoralGuardians were upset. Incidentally, although it's often thought of as a Frank Sinatra song, it was originally sung in the musical ''Babes in Arms'' by the female character in question. Sinatra changed the lyrics and, possibly deliberately, the meaning.
* Frank Sinatra's "Around The World" from the movie ''Around The World in 80 days''. Actually, the movie's version lacked lyrics of any kind, but the versions performed has the words "It might have been in Country Down/Or in New York, or GayParee/Or even London town..."
* You might suspect that "I'm Coming Out", performed by Diana Ross, would be an example of this. [[AvertedTrope Nope.]] The songwriters were well aware of the [[ComingOutStory other meaning]] of the phrase, although the song itself does not make any other references to homosexuality, even though it is associated with being a gay male.
* Gary Puckett and the Union Gap did a song back in TheSixties called "Young Girl" in which he ''is'' using it toward what the Japanese refer to as ''Lolicon'' and what Americans would call ''JailBait''.
* An amusing inversion by a modern songwriter: Derek Webb's song "Freddie, Please" contains the line "Freddie, can't you see, brother, you're the one who's queer?" Most people in 2009 would take "queer" to mean "homosexual", but Webb intentionally uses it to mean "abnormal". [[spoiler: The song is about Fred Phelps, a notoriously homophobic pastor.]]
* Inversion: Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers' "I'm Straight", about the advantages of not doing drugs.
* Ian Dury's "I Want To Be Straight", although it's deliberate. It even uses "bent" to mean "addicted to drugs". Ian was bisexual, thus he deliberately phrased this song in such a way that could be about either homosexuality or drug use.
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* As suggested by the title, innocuous uses of the term "gay", as in "[[EvenTheGuysWantHim We'll all feel gay]] when Johnny comes marching home". The [[TropeNamer trope name itself]] comes from the last line of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' theme song.
** An instance that rings especially odd to modern ears occurs in a hit song of the 1930s, "Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss"; the singer, defending his womanizing ways, asks "Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?" (Given that the word was already Jazz slang for both "swinger" and "homosexual" by that time, this may have been an intentional DoubleEntendre, an in-joke that most listeners would miss.)
** In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the singer advises himself to "smile and pretend to be gay" when the unrequited object of his affections approaches.
** The title song from Music/TomWaits' musical ''The Black Rider'' uses the original meaning of "gay", probably in order to sound old-timey.
** In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" (perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo") the dying cowboy sings "Once in the saddle I used to go dashing, once in the saddle I used to go gay." Perhaps that's why he got shot.
** The Platters' "The Great Pretender" is "happy and gay like a clown".
*** This song was also covered by [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]], of all people.
** A more contemporary example is Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "All Apologies": "What else should I say/everyone is gay".
** "No Milk Today" by Music/HermansHermits.
--> ''No milk today, it wasn't always so. The company was gay, we'd turn night into day''
** Dean Martin's song ''That's Amore'' has the lyrics "''Tippy-tippy-tay''/''Like a gay tarantella''". Mocked by Creator/OrsonWelles at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
--> "''Like a '''gay''' tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about!''"
* Nowadays, it's hard enough during Christmas to find time to ''Deck The Halls'' with boughs of holly; some of us will never manage "don we now our gay apparel."
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's Christmas specials, where one of the puppets sings the line, suddenly realizes what he has said, and [[HehHehYouSaidX giggles about it]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Brian was given a Christmas sweater by Lois. It was rather effeminate, and had the caption "HO! HO! HO!" on it. When she insisted that he wear it, using this line, he said, "[[DoubleEntendre doesn't get much gayer than this]]".
** ''Music/TheMonkees'' somehow [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got away with this]] in their ChristmasEpisode...resulting in a massive CrowningMomentOfFunny. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuGvCXDycEc See for yourself.]]
** Somehow made it through in the family film ''{{Franklin}}'s Magic Christmas''. Nelvana was aiming to use the traditional unaltered lyrics of the featured songs, including going the whole nine yards with the complete 5-stanza version of ''Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star''.
** They dig the hole deeper after "{{Troll}} the ancient yuletide carol".
** "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" implores the listener to "make the Yuletide gay". That the song was introduced by future gay icon JudyGarland (in ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'') merely [[HilariousInHindsight adds to the dynamic.]]
** Going still further back into Christmas past, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol Boar's Head Carol]] has the title delicacy "bedeck'd with a gay garland".
** "It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year" extols "gay happy meetings when friends come to call." Many cover versions change "gay" to "great".
* "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is blithe and bonny, good and gay."
* "When Irish eyes are smiling / All the world seems bright and gay..."
* There is a 15th century French song called "Baises moy," which means "kiss me" in Middle French. A similar Modern French expression has a much more obscene meaning.
* An old ballad starts out with the line, "Lord Thomas he was a gay gentleman..." It immediately goes on to describe Lord Thomas's entirely heterosexual courtship with one Fair Ellender, which dilutes the awkwardness to a large extent.
* The band Saigon Kick had planned to title one of their albums Fields Of Rape (rape being a kind of flower). Their record company wouldn't allow it, so they titled the album Water instead.
* In the TheVillainSucksSong of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' (as sung by the fantastic late ThurlRavenscroft), one of the lines in the song's last verse reads as follows:
--> ''You're a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked horse''
** [[BlatantLies Clearly]], he's talking about dried beef.
* There's an old folk song: "Ruben Ruben I've been thinking, What a queer world it would be If the men were all transported Far beyond the northern sea. Rachel Rachel I've been thinking what a gay world it would be If the girls were all transported Far beyond the northern sea." Well, yes, if they sent all the men or all the women away, [[SituationalSexuality it would be a queer/gay world]].
* "Flowers On The Wall" (1966) by the Statler Brothers featured [[SanitySlippageSong bleak undercurrent]] as well as lyrics that demanded revision in subsequent cover versions.
--> ''Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town''
--> ''As long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down''
* In "The Pub With No Beer" by Slim Dusty, "The cook's acting queer".
* Due to perceived UnfortunateImplications, Debussy's ''Children's Corner No. 6'' is often referred to as "The Cakewalk" instead of its proper title, "The Golliwoggs' Cakewalk". Either that, or the second word is misspelled "golliwogs'" without the double final G. This is an example of this trope because Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg, which Debussy was specifically referencing, was a heroic figure, the Literature/HarryPotter of his day; it wasn't until EnidBlyton got hold of the character type that it became the racist stereotype it is today (and acquired the present spelling).
* From the WorldWarOne era song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary":
-->[[LondonTown Up to mighty London came]]
-->[[{{Oireland}} Came an Irish lad one day,]]
-->[[CityOfGold All the streets were paved with gold,]]
-->[[EveryoneIsGay So everyone was gay!]]
* Jumpin' Gene Simmons' 1964 novelty hit "Haunted House" includes the line, "I had a hunk o' meat in my hand".
* The George Formby 1940s hit "Under the Blasted Oak" has the singer and his girlfriend "searching for some LSD" under the tree in question. At the time, "LSD" was British slang for "pounds, shillings and pence", i.e., UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney.
** George Formby was well known for GettingCrapPastTheRadar, so the only way we're certain this isn't deliberate is that LSD was only discovered in 1943 and wasn't widely known until years later.
** The 1931 British novelty song "Ali Baba's Camel" says that the title character was "out for what we all want: lots of LSD!" When the Bonzo Dog Band covered it in 1969, they left the line in, obviously knowing the audience would find the newer double meaning amusing. And to tie it in even more with the trope name, the song was written by Noel Gay.
** This was probably 100% deliberate considering it was recorded in 1971, but the song "Lake Shore Drive" by Alliotta Haynes Jeremiah has the line "Just zippin' on by on LSD," meaning, yup, Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Many older Chicagoans still use the initialism to refer to the road.
* "Let me tell you 'bout a place, Somewhere up-a New York way, Where the people are ''so gay''..." Somehow, we doubt Sam Cooke was referring to Greenwich Village or Fire Island with that line from "Twistin' the Night Away."
** It continues in a later verse: "Here's a fella in blue jeans, dancin' with a ''older queen'' who's dolled up in-a diamond rings..."
* "Somebody Nobody Loves", written by Seymour Miller and best known in Ella Fitzgerald's interpretation, contains the lines, "I've prayed on bended knee/For that certain gay prince charmin'/Who was meant for me."
* The last line of the traditional ''London Bridge Is Falling Down'' was ''And a gay lady'', not ''My fair lady''. This replacement appears to have happened just out of superior rhythm or similar, however, as the change long predates the modern meaning of the word.
* From Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)":
-->To think that only yesterday I was cheerful bright and gay
* "Under the Boardwalk", written in the 60s, has the singer saying that he and his baby will be "making love under the boardwalk". Presumably this means the sweet-talking kind and not the kind that would lead to getting sand in uncomfortable places. (Modern covers sometimes say "we'll be fallin' in love" instead.)
* For once not sexual, but plain weird: There's a German children's song about two StarCrossedLovers. The song ends with them running away, and the next sentence is "and the house ran after them". In old(er) German, this meant "all the people who were living in the house", or possibly "the family", but to today's kids, this has to create the strange mental picture of a running house. (And in fact, this was used in one kindergarten play.)
* Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3K6UuS_5_Q&feature=related The Gaylords!]]
** Similarly, there's the reggae group The Gaylads, who formed in 1963 (and continue to perform live under that name to this day)
* Nowadays, [[Creator/JohannSebastianBach Bach's]] ''Air on the G String'' conjures up some interesting images for some.
* Music/TheHollies, in the early [[TheSixties 1960s]], recorded a song called "Keep Off That Friend Of Mine" the chorus of which includes the lines "Now she's turned her head away/She's lost her smile/She's not so gay". Nowadays, the last line is often [[AffectionateParody parodied]] "...I think she's gay".
* Vancouver-based Spirit of the West (compare them with GreatBigSea) used this phrase verbatim in the song "The Crawl" (a song about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pub crawl]]): "Well we planned to HaveAGayOldTime, the cash we did not spare..."
* The song "To Know Him/Her Is To Love Him/Her" by Phil Spector includes the casual line "I'll make love to her/him", then obviously having the older meaning.
* Music/TheShaggs' song "Why Do I Feel" is even more hilarious with this in mind:
--> "Sometimes I worry over nothing at all\\
Sometimes I think life's just a ball\\
When life changes and turns the other way\\
I try to think of something gay"
** As is "It's Halloween" with the line:
--> "All the kids are happy and gay"
* George Jones's song "A Rose from the Bride's Bouquet" takes on rather a different context when looked at from this light:
-->I went to a wedding one bright summer day
-->The bride was a beauty and the people were gay
-->Alone in a corner I stood till the end
-->For the girl was my sweetheart and the boy my best friend
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcmAdS8vkDA Glitter and Be Gay]]" from LeonardBernstein's ''Candide''.
* GWAR does this in ''The Horror of [[EldritchAbomination Yig]]''. Odd considering that this isn't an old song, and the slang term existed when it came out:
---> "Yig now is coming! Yig now is here!"
---> "Yig now he makes things impossibly ''queer...''"
* The classic standard "Am I Blue?" includes the line, ''Was I gay, until today...''
* Music/JohnnyCash's ''Jackson'', about a bickering couple who want to break up and intend to go to the town of Jackson to celebrate their new-found unattachment, contains a verse where Cash promises to "snowball Jackson". Presumably he means that he intends to roll right over it, like a snowball rolling down a hill gathering snow and speed as it goes, rather than the modern, {{squick}}y sexual connotation.
** "Snowball" could also mean to con everybody, play them for suckers, like a snow job.
* Clive Richarson's composition [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHoKfVHsC8 "Gay Activity"]]. Used, among other things, in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.
* The original lyrics of the Kentucky State Song (My Old Kentucky Home) did a double whammy, by beginning:
---> The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
---> Tis summer, the darkies are gay
-->It even went on to sing about "The young folks roll on the little cabin floor".
-->The lyric has since been changed from "darkies" to "people", but gay is still official.
* Music/TheKinks' "A Well-Respected Man" mentions that the title character "likes his fags the best". They're referring to cigarettes.
** The title character from "David Watts", meanwhile, is "so gay and fancy-free". But since the next verse says that "all the girls...try their best but they can't succeed" with David, it's probably a deliberate DoubleEntendre.
* People are still doing [[http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-i-care-about-some-velvet-morning.html analyses of Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"]], heavy on the implications of "straight" and "gate".
* "Kentucky Gambler" by MerleHaggard (written by DollyParton): "Into the gay casino in Nevada's town of Reno."
* Music/MFDoom's "Batty Boyz" plays with this trope by using clips from the 50's and 60's in its introduction.
--> Sharpen up your spirit of adventure: the fabulous gay way!
--> "Now don't get gay with me!" "Gay, sir, I'm far from gay."
* An indirect example could be the classic jazz/folk tune "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (a Broadway tune that was memorably covered by the [[DeaderThanDisco groundbreaking but largely forgotten]] jazz musician [[Film/TheJazzSinger Al Jolson]]). At the time, the song was just seen as a comically-exaggerated but sentimental gesture of friendship. Today, the following lyrics would suggest something a little more... sensual (at least when sung by a male, though JudyGarland recorded her own version):
-->The heavenly blisses of his kisses fill me with ecstasy.
-->He's sweet just like chocolate candy and just like honey from the bee.''
* The SurfRock band TheTrashmen had a song about how awesome their car was called "My Woodie".
--> She's big, big. She's bad, bad. My woodie!
* The 50s show tune/jazz standard "Ballad of The Sad Young Men":
-->Tired little girl does the best she can
-->Trying to be gay for her sad young man
* The Music/ElvisPresley song "Paralyzed", first recorded in 1956:
--> Lucky me, I’m singing every day
--> Ever since that day you came my way
--> You made my life for me just one big happy game
--> I'm gay every morning, at night I’m still the same!
* "Jappy Jap" is a song done in 2002 and sung by ''People Under the Stairs'', a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 1997 by Thes One and Double K.
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** An instance that rings especially odd to modern ears occurs in a hit song of the 1930s, "Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss"; the singer, defending his womanizing ways, asks "Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?" (Given that the word was already Jazz slang for both "swinger" and "homosexual" by that time, this may have been an intentional DoubleEntendre, an in-joke that most listeners would miss.)
** In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the singer advises himself to "smile and pretend to be gay" when the unrequited object of his affections approaches.
** The title song from Music/TomWaits' musical ''The Black Rider'' uses the original meaning of "gay", probably in order to sound old-timey.
** In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" (perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo") the dying cowboy sings "Once in the saddle I used to go dashing, once in the saddle I used to go gay." Perhaps that's why he got shot.
** The Platters' "The Great Pretender" is "happy and gay like a clown".
*** This song was also covered by [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]], of all people.
** A more contemporary example is Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "All Apologies": "What else should I say/everyone is gay".
** "No Milk Today" by Music/HermansHermits.
--> ''No milk today, it wasn't always so. The company was gay, we'd turn night into day''
** Dean Martin's song ''That's Amore'' has the lyrics "''Tippy-tippy-tay''/''Like a gay tarantella''". Mocked by Creator/OrsonWelles at Martin's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4 Celebrity Roast.]]
--> "''Like a '''gay''' tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about!''"
* Nowadays, it's hard enough during Christmas to find time to ''Deck The Halls'' with boughs of holly; some of us will never manage "don we now our gay apparel."
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham's Christmas specials, where one of the puppets sings the line, suddenly realizes what he has said, and [[HehHehYouSaidX giggles about it]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Brian was given a Christmas sweater by Lois. It was rather effeminate, and had the caption "HO! HO! HO!" on it. When she insisted that he wear it, using this line, he said, "[[DoubleEntendre doesn't get much gayer than this]]".
** ''Music/TheMonkees'' somehow [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got away with this]] in their ChristmasEpisode...resulting in a massive CrowningMomentOfFunny. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuGvCXDycEc See for yourself.]]
** Somehow made it through in the family film ''{{Franklin}}'s Magic Christmas''. Nelvana was aiming to use the traditional unaltered lyrics of the featured songs, including going the whole nine yards with the complete 5-stanza version of ''Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star''.
** They dig the hole deeper after "{{Troll}} the ancient yuletide carol".
** "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" implores the listener to "make the Yuletide gay". That the song was introduced by future gay icon JudyGarland (in ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'') merely [[HilariousInHindsight adds to the dynamic.]]
** Going still further back into Christmas past, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol Boar's Head Carol]] has the title delicacy "bedeck'd with a gay garland".
** "It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year" extols "gay happy meetings when friends come to call." Many cover versions change "gay" to "great".
* "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is blithe and bonny, good and gay."
* "When Irish eyes are smiling / All the world seems bright and gay..."
* There is a 15th century French song called "Baises moy," which means "kiss me" in Middle French. A similar Modern French expression has a much more obscene meaning.
* An old ballad starts out with the line, "Lord Thomas he was a gay gentleman..." It immediately goes on to describe Lord Thomas's entirely heterosexual courtship with one Fair Ellender, which dilutes the awkwardness to a large extent.
* The band Saigon Kick had planned to title one of their albums Fields Of Rape (rape being a kind of flower). Their record company wouldn't allow it, so they titled the album Water instead.
* In the TheVillainSucksSong of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' (as sung by the fantastic late ThurlRavenscroft), one of the lines in the song's last verse reads as follows:
--> ''You're a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked horse''
** [[BlatantLies Clearly]], he's talking about dried beef.
* There's an old folk song: "Ruben Ruben I've been thinking, What a queer world it would be If the men were all transported Far beyond the northern sea. Rachel Rachel I've been thinking what a gay world it would be If the girls were all transported Far beyond the northern sea." Well, yes, if they sent all the men or all the women away, [[SituationalSexuality it would be a queer/gay world]].
* "Flowers On The Wall" (1966) by the Statler Brothers featured [[SanitySlippageSong bleak undercurrent]] as well as lyrics that demanded revision in subsequent cover versions.
--> ''Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town''
--> ''As long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down''
* In "The Pub With No Beer" by Slim Dusty, "The cook's acting queer".
* Due to perceived UnfortunateImplications, Debussy's ''Children's Corner No. 6'' is often referred to as "The Cakewalk" instead of its proper title, "The Golliwoggs' Cakewalk". Either that, or the second word is misspelled "golliwogs'" without the double final G. This is an example of this trope because Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg, which Debussy was specifically referencing, was a heroic figure, the Literature/HarryPotter of his day; it wasn't until EnidBlyton got hold of the character type that it became the racist stereotype it is today (and acquired the present spelling).
* From the WorldWarOne era song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary":
-->[[LondonTown Up to mighty London came]]
-->[[{{Oireland}} Came an Irish lad one day,]]
-->[[CityOfGold All the streets were paved with gold,]]
-->[[EveryoneIsGay So everyone was gay!]]
* Jumpin' Gene Simmons' 1964 novelty hit "Haunted House" includes the line, "I had a hunk o' meat in my hand".
* The George Formby 1940s hit "Under the Blasted Oak" has the singer and his girlfriend "searching for some LSD" under the tree in question. At the time, "LSD" was British slang for "pounds, shillings and pence", i.e., UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney.
** George Formby was well known for GettingCrapPastTheRadar, so the only way we're certain this isn't deliberate is that LSD was only discovered in 1943 and wasn't widely known until years later.
** The 1931 British novelty song "Ali Baba's Camel" says that the title character was "out for what we all want: lots of LSD!" When the Bonzo Dog Band covered it in 1969, they left the line in, obviously knowing the audience would find the newer double meaning amusing. And to tie it in even more with the trope name, the song was written by Noel Gay.
** This was probably 100% deliberate considering it was recorded in 1971, but the song "Lake Shore Drive" by Alliotta Haynes Jeremiah has the line "Just zippin' on by on LSD," meaning, yup, Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Many older Chicagoans still use the initialism to refer to the road.
* "Let me tell you 'bout a place, Somewhere up-a New York way, Where the people are ''so gay''..." Somehow, we doubt Sam Cooke was referring to Greenwich Village or Fire Island with that line from "Twistin' the Night Away."
** It continues in a later verse: "Here's a fella in blue jeans, dancin' with a ''older queen'' who's dolled up in-a diamond rings..."
* "Somebody Nobody Loves", written by Seymour Miller and best known in Ella Fitzgerald's interpretation, contains the lines, "I've prayed on bended knee/For that certain gay prince charmin'/Who was meant for me."
* The last line of the traditional ''London Bridge Is Falling Down'' was ''And a gay lady'', not ''My fair lady''. This replacement appears to have happened just out of superior rhythm or similar, however, as the change long predates the modern meaning of the word.
* From Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)":
-->To think that only yesterday I was cheerful bright and gay
* "Under the Boardwalk", written in the 60s, has the singer saying that he and his baby will be "making love under the boardwalk". Presumably this means the sweet-talking kind and not the kind that would lead to getting sand in uncomfortable places. (Modern covers sometimes say "we'll be fallin' in love" instead.)
* For once not sexual, but plain weird: There's a German children's song about two StarCrossedLovers. The song ends with them running away, and the next sentence is "and the house ran after them". In old(er) German, this meant "all the people who were living in the house", or possibly "the family", but to today's kids, this has to create the strange mental picture of a running house. (And in fact, this was used in one kindergarten play.)
* Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3K6UuS_5_Q&feature=related The Gaylords!]]
** Similarly, there's the reggae group The Gaylads, who formed in 1963 (and continue to perform live under that name to this day)
* Nowadays, [[Creator/JohannSebastianBach Bach's]] ''Air on the G String'' conjures up some interesting images for some.
* Music/TheHollies, in the early [[TheSixties 1960s]], recorded a song called "Keep Off That Friend Of Mine" the chorus of which includes the lines "Now she's turned her head away/She's lost her smile/She's not so gay". Nowadays, the last line is often [[AffectionateParody parodied]] "...I think she's gay".
* Vancouver-based Spirit of the West (compare them with GreatBigSea) used this phrase verbatim in the song "The Crawl" (a song about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pub crawl]]): "Well we planned to HaveAGayOldTime, the cash we did not spare..."
* The song "To Know Him/Her Is To Love Him/Her" by Phil Spector includes the casual line "I'll make love to her/him", then obviously having the older meaning.
* Music/TheShaggs' song "Why Do I Feel" is even more hilarious with this in mind:
--> "Sometimes I worry over nothing at all\\
Sometimes I think life's just a ball\\
When life changes and turns the other way\\
I try to think of something gay"
** As is "It's Halloween" with the line:
--> "All the kids are happy and gay"
* George Jones's song "A Rose from the Bride's Bouquet" takes on rather a different context when looked at from this light:
-->I went to a wedding one bright summer day
-->The bride was a beauty and the people were gay
-->Alone in a corner I stood till the end
-->For the girl was my sweetheart and the boy my best friend
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcmAdS8vkDA Glitter and Be Gay]]" from LeonardBernstein's ''Candide''.
* GWAR does this in ''The Horror of [[EldritchAbomination Yig]]''. Odd considering that this isn't an old song, and the slang term existed when it came out:
---> "Yig now is coming! Yig now is here!"
---> "Yig now he makes things impossibly ''queer...''"
* The classic standard "Am I Blue?" includes the line, ''Was I gay, until today...''
* Music/JohnnyCash's ''Jackson'', about a bickering couple who want to break up and intend to go to the town of Jackson to celebrate their new-found unattachment, contains a verse where Cash promises to "snowball Jackson". Presumably he means that he intends to roll right over it, like a snowball rolling down a hill gathering snow and speed as it goes, rather than the modern, {{squick}}y sexual connotation.
** "Snowball" could also mean to con everybody, play them for suckers, like a snow job.
* Clive Richarson's composition [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHoKfVHsC8 "Gay Activity"]]. Used, among other things, in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.
* The original lyrics of the Kentucky State Song (My Old Kentucky Home) did a double whammy, by beginning:
---> The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
---> Tis summer, the darkies are gay
-->It even went on to sing about "The young folks roll on the little cabin floor".
-->The lyric has since been changed from "darkies" to "people", but gay is still official.
* Music/TheKinks' "A Well-Respected Man" mentions that the title character "likes his fags the best". They're referring to cigarettes.
** The title character from "David Watts", meanwhile, is "so gay and fancy-free". But since the next verse says that "all the girls...try their best but they can't succeed" with David, it's probably a deliberate DoubleEntendre.
* People are still doing [[http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-i-care-about-some-velvet-morning.html analyses of Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"]], heavy on the implications of "straight" and "gate".
* "Kentucky Gambler" by MerleHaggard (written by DollyParton): "Into the gay casino in Nevada's town of Reno."
* Music/MFDoom's "Batty Boyz" plays with this trope by using clips from the 50's and 60's in its introduction.
--> Sharpen up your spirit of adventure: the fabulous gay way!
--> "Now don't get gay with me!" "Gay, sir, I'm far from gay."
* An indirect example could be the classic jazz/folk tune "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (a Broadway tune that was memorably covered by the [[DeaderThanDisco groundbreaking but largely forgotten]] jazz musician [[Film/TheJazzSinger Al Jolson]]). At the time, the song was just seen as a comically-exaggerated but sentimental gesture of friendship. Today, the following lyrics would suggest something a little more... sensual (at least when sung by a male, though JudyGarland recorded her own version):
-->The heavenly blisses of his kisses fill me with ecstasy.
-->He's sweet just like chocolate candy and just like honey from the bee.''
* The SurfRock band TheTrashmen had a song about how awesome their car was called "My Woodie".
--> She's big, big. She's bad, bad. My woodie!
* The 50s show tune/jazz standard "Ballad of The Sad Young Men":
-->Tired little girl does the best she can
-->Trying to be gay for her sad young man
* The Music/ElvisPresley song "Paralyzed", first recorded in 1956:
--> Lucky me, I’m singing every day
--> Ever since that day you came my way
--> You made my life for me just one big happy game
--> I'm gay every morning, at night I’m still the same!
* "Jappy Jap" is a song done in 2002 and sung by ''People Under the Stairs'', a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 1997 by Thes One and Double K.
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