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Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: danilove on Sep 11, 2003, 10:13 AM
This is really random ::), but I must admit that I was a little disappointed to see that the actual lyric is: "I been waitin on the boat here I been waitin so long"...Ever since that hokey, airbrushed-looking(MOJO?)picture last spring, I kept thinkin' Jim was singin: "I been waitin on the pony I been waitin so long"...which has made me laugh to myself ever since. Anyway...Yes. Crack is good.  
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Sep 11, 2003, 12:09 PM
Oh Dani, I'm sure there isn't crack involved... ;)

I always thought it was "I've been waiting on the boulevard"...but I'm also kinda silly.

By the time that lyric comes, I'm usually banging my head so hard that I can't hear it anyways!  But thanks for the tip.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: dwight on Sep 16, 2003, 11:13 AM
By the way, I'm pretty sure that "Mahgeetah" the word came from the word "MY GUITAR". Jim just F n around with Ladi Da to My Guitaaar... Mah Geetah... and so on.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: Drunkre on Jun 21, 2004, 01:35 PM
Really old thread...sorry, I'm new, just fishing for sheeaht to talk about.  My friend and I have always assumed the girl he is singing about is name Maggie, and Mahgeetah simply an extension of that...a playful nickname if you will.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: Jellyfish on Jun 21, 2004, 01:40 PM
I thought it was "MY GUITAR!" as well.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: TheMollusk on Jun 21, 2004, 06:54 PM
hey guess what, if you buy the cd and look in the booklet, the lyrics are right there! who woulda thunk? and its the first friggin song..forget it
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: Drunkre on Jun 21, 2004, 07:38 PM
I don't think the question was what he's saying literally, but instead what "Mahgeetah" (which is a nonsensical word) means.  Therefore, looking at a cd lyric booklet wouldn't be the most logical step.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: jezebel on Jun 22, 2004, 12:04 PM
Damn it, danilove, you know i'm with you. it's a frickin' PONY.

Admittedly, the ambiguity of "Mahgeetah" has been a fun to tease people...when new converts ask about it, it's fun to make up crap. one of my favorites is suggesting that "mahgeetah" is actually a concept from the Bhagavad Gita, and this song is representative of their recent conversion to buddhism. I've also suggested that it was originally recorded as a b-side and jim sang with his mouth full of jumbo marshmallows; when they made the album cut they rerecorded the vocals but kept the altered title. of course, i always come clean...but you always have to wonder if that's how the "Jimi Hendrix puts LSD in his headband" and "Paul is dead" kind of rumors start.
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Jun 22, 2004, 12:19 PM
or if you play black sabbath or kiss backwards, you'll lose your soul to the devil...or if you cut your arm slightly and shove peanut butter in there that it will give you a killer buzz...or having sex in a tree or with the lights on prevents pregnancy...or how smoking a "tobie" from a "tobie tree" will give you the best buzz ever...or that john denver flew his plane in the pacific ocean because he was secretly gay and couldn't live with himself anymore...etc. etc.

yeah, gotta love the urban legends...did you hear that patrick's love of billiards made him start worshipping a plastic statue of minnesota fats?
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: lyricjunkie on Jun 22, 2004, 07:15 PM
 :D :D :D :D!!!
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 08, 2004, 09:31 PM
QuoteAnyway...Yes. Crack is good.  
attempt to insert dumb adolescent style bathroom humor here has been squashed by reactivation of brain cells :)
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 09, 2004, 05:22 PM
sorry that last post was completely uncalled for :-X
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Aug 09, 2004, 06:12 PM
ahem, "modify" always works... :)
Title: Re: lyrics for Mahgeetah
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Aug 09, 2004, 07:45 PM
thanx--temporary brain death :-[