Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight, written with Scotty Emerick)
Song lyrics, Pull My Chain (2001)
“If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.”
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
Context: (After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:) If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.
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Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
Song lyrics, Innervisions (1973)
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
“What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Though Costello's cover became a hit, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", was actually written by Nick Lowe.
Misattributed
Context: As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
“What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Angel
“Theres one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?”
Nick Lowe (1949) British singer
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. ( Nicke Lowe performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7txCdLCP9U - Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe joint performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdh7ERLb3E) <br class="br">Context: As I walk through<br>This wicked world<br>Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,<br>I ask myself<br>Is all hope lost?<br>Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside,<br>Theres one thing I wanna know:<br>What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
“Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Cold Water", Mule Variations (1999).
“I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 277
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)