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THIS ALWAYS BOTHERED ME... The lyrics to the O'Jays Love Train. Well not all the lyrics but just one line in particular...
Can you guess what line got me thinking wtf? 
I will give you a hint denilaaintariverinegypt People all over the world (everybody) Join hands (join) Start a love train, love train People all over the world (all the world, now) Join hands (love ride) Start a love train (love ride), love train The next stop that we make will be England Tell all the folks in Russia, and China, too Don't you know that it's time to get on board And let this train keep on riding, riding on through Well, well People all over the world (you don't need no money) Join hands (come on) Start a love train, love train (don't need no ticket, come on) People all over the world ( ride this train)(Ride this train, y'all) Start a love train (Come on, train), love train All of you brothers over in Africa Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too Please don't miss this train at the station 'Cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you Well People all over the world (Sisters and brothers) Join hands (join, come on) Start a love train (ride this train, y'all), love train (Come on) People all over the world (Don't need no tickets) Join hands (come on, ride) Start a love train, love train Ride, let it ride Let it ride Let it ride People, ain't no war People all over the world (on this train) Join in (ride the train) Start a love train, love train (ride the train, y'all) People all over the world (come on) Join hands (you can ride or stand, yeah) Start a love train, love train (makin' love) People all over the world ('round the world, y'all) Join hands (come on) Start a love train, love train | |
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I read the thing even though I'm already fimiliar with it,,,,I'm sorry, I still don't know what you mean   | |
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Harlepolis said: I read the thing even though I'm already fimiliar with it,,,,I'm sorry, I still don't know what you mean
 you r confusing me. which thing r u familiar with? | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Harlepolis said: I read the thing even though I'm already fimiliar with it,,,,I'm sorry, I still don't know what you mean
you r confusing me. which thing r u familiar with?Uh
"Love Train"?  | |
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Harlepolis said: DesireeNevermind said: you r confusing me. which thing r u familiar with?Uh
"Love Train"?   Okay, here's another hint. the lyric is um...contains an error in geography. Okay I pretty much gave it away right there. | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Harlepolis said: Uh
"Love Train"? Okay, here's another hint. the lyric is um...contains an error in geography. Okay I pretty much gave it away right there.All of you brothers over in Africa Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too Right? | |
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Harlepolis said: DesireeNevermind said: Okay, here's another hint. the lyric is um...contains an error in geography. Okay I pretty much gave it away right there.All of you brothers over in Africa Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too Right? Yep  I'm sorry but that bothered me because...hello...Egypt IS in Africa. Did this dude ever look at a map or globe? Okay even though Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote it, they still should know better. Imagine how many people grew up thinking the same from listening to this song. I can jam with it up till that point. | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Harlepolis said: All of you brothers over in Africa Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too Right? Yep I'm sorry but that bothered me because...hello...Egypt IS in Africa. Did this dude ever look at a map or globe? Okay even though Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote it, they still should know better. Imagine how many people grew up thinking the same from listening to this song. I can jam with it up till that point.It's just a fucking song | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Harlepolis said: All of you brothers over in Africa Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too Right? Yep I'm sorry but that bothered me because...hello...Egypt IS in Africa. Did this dude ever look at a map or globe? Okay even though Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote it, they still should know better. Imagine how many people grew up thinking the same from listening to this song. I can jam with it up till that point.You have to take into consideration the time that this song was written. At that time,(mid 70's) they were consider too different places. The writers of the song did not wanna rock the boat. "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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most people think that Africa is a country and not a continent with over 40 countries in it LOVE HARD. | |
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I actually never cared much for the song but just glancing through the lyrics I knew it was Africa/Egypt lines.  Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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well u know "the man" went to great lengths to SEPARATE Egypt FROM Africa (Liz Taylor as Cleopatra, white Egyptians and Charlon Heston in The 10 Commandments, etc.) lest African Americans feel some connection to the brilliant people who built the pyramids. Harder to continue to oppress and keep enslaved a people with such a rich legacy, u must keep them thinking they are soulless monkeys, who you rescued from the jungles.
but about the song, i don't think it was THAT deep. if it was ignorance on the O'Jays part or the writers, shame on them, but the ignorance was/is quite pervasive. But other songs that have shouted out locales have also vacillated between states, cities, countries. | |
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I don't see it as a "mistake". I think it's the way you're interpreting it. I think the idea was to switch to another continent- Africa- in the song, and then make a shout out to Africa's bigger countries like Egypt and Israel. | |
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dannyd5050 said: I don't see it as a "mistake". I think it's the way you're interpreting it. I think the idea was to switch to another continent- Africa- in the song, and then make a shout out to Africa's bigger countries like Egypt and Israel.
Isreal is not part of Africa   | |
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"It's just a song."
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Harlepolis said: dannyd5050 said: I don't see it as a "mistake". I think it's the way you're interpreting it. I think the idea was to switch to another continent- Africa- in the song, and then make a shout out to Africa's bigger countries like Egypt and Israel.
Isreal is not part of Africa  | |
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If y'all gonna argue, find the e-mails to Gamble & Huff. They wrote it.  | |
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Timmy84 said:
If y'all gonna argue, find the e-mails to Gamble & Huff. They wrote it. Not me Tim. I just thought it was devilish of Harle. Actually I know it was Harle that posted that even before I read the username. | |
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lol @ saying devilish. I''m just sippin on my drink chillin like everyday. | |
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NMuzakNSoul said: Timmy84 said:
If y'all gonna argue, find the e-mails to Gamble & Huff. They wrote it. Not me Tim. I just thought it was devilish of Harle. Actually I know it was Harle that posted that even before I read the username. I gotcha, Nick. | |
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Evvy said: most people think that Africa is a country and not a continent with over 40 countries in it
 another thing that pisses me off. It's like damn folk, look at a fucking globe or map already. To me this is just about disrespect to an entire continent.
Or maybe Gamble and Huff just fell asleep in geography class, and humanities class, and world history class, and geology class and any other class where the continent of Africa comes up. People all over the world (everybody) Get a map, Find Africa, Find Africa | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Evvy said: most people think that Africa is a country and not a continent with over 40 countries in it
another thing that pisses me off. It's like damn folk, look at a fucking globe or map already. To me this is just about disrespect to an entire continent.
Or maybe Gamble and Huff just fell asleep in geography class, and humanities class, and world history class, and geology class and any other class where the continent of Africa comes up. People all over the world (everybody) Get a map, Find Africa, Find Africa | |
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datdude said: well u know "the man" went to great lengths to SEPARATE Egypt FROM Africa (Liz Taylor as Cleopatra, white Egyptians and Charlon Heston in The 10 Commandments, etc.) lest African Americans feel some connection to the brilliant people who built the pyramids. Harder to continue to oppress and keep enslaved a people with such a rich legacy, u must keep them thinking they are soulless monkeys, who you rescued from the jungles.
but about the song, i don't think it was THAT deep. if it was ignorance on the O'Jays part or the writers, shame on them, but the ignorance was/is quite pervasive. But other songs that have shouted out locales have also vacillated between states, cities, countries. now that's deep  | |
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Harlepolis said: dannyd5050 said: I don't see it as a "mistake". I think it's the way you're interpreting it. I think the idea was to switch to another continent- Africa- in the song, and then make a shout out to Africa's bigger countries like Egypt and Israel.
Isreal is not part of Africa You're right. I stand corrected. | |
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It's sounds fine to me. Anybody got a Coor's Light? "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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DesireeNevermind said: datdude said: well u know "the man" went to great lengths to SEPARATE Egypt FROM Africa (Liz Taylor as Cleopatra, white Egyptians and Charlon Heston in The 10 Commandments, etc.) lest African Americans feel some connection to the brilliant people who built the pyramids. Harder to continue to oppress and keep enslaved a people with such a rich legacy, u must keep them thinking they are soulless monkeys, who you rescued from the jungles.
but about the song, i don't think it was THAT deep. if it was ignorance on the O'Jays part or the writers, shame on them, but the ignorance was/is quite pervasive. But other songs that have shouted out locales have also vacillated between states, cities, countries. now that's deep it's very deep..if u fill out government questionaires and they ask for race..you'll see white as european or africa north of the sahara and african american as people from below the sahara..(your black ass live in Algeria, u can say you're white) That's the good ole USofA for u..so back then it might not have been just a missed class in geography.its what folk really thought...many people still think egypt is part of the middle east | |
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SavonOsco said: DesireeNevermind said: now that's deep it's very deep..if u fill out government questionaires and they ask for race..you'll see white as european or africa north of the sahara and african american as people from below the sahara..(your black ass live in Algeria, u can say you're white) That's the good ole USofA for u..so back then it might not have been just a missed class in geography.its what folk really thought...many people still think egypt is part of the middle east Pitiful. I mean you can go to the library and read books on Egypt and see that it's part of AFrica. Many books with pics show the countrymen/natives and they are very black. And let's not forget its next to the fucking Sudan where people there are and have pretty much always been very very black. Sudan used to be Nubia and Egypt supposedly got her shit from Nubia. | |
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Did Gamble & Huff drop out of school? Why are y'all not focused on that? | |
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graduated high school in 1960...many of us know that Egypt(Kemet) borrowed many things from Nubia, but alot dont..u just didnt learn that in school in certain places.And yes its so simple as to grab a map and see for yourself that Egypt is part of africa.But someone on here earlier thought Isreal was part of Africa, so its just show u that alot of people was sleep during geography class..they just dropped the ball on this song thats all..cuz its still a good song | |
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yeah i still groove to it and the scrunch my nose for 5 seconds then go back to   [Edited 7/17/09 18:28pm] | |
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