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Best Of Emerson Lake And Palmer (Rhino) album at Amazon.com
Emerson, Lake and Palmer's, "Karn Evil 9 (First Impression)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
silent children shivered in the cold
now their plight exploited in the lyrics of the jackasses for gold records
The Real Lyrics:
silent chidren shivered in the cold
now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold
The Story: As a photographer who traveled to poorer countries to document the conditions that some children lived and DIED in, I was quite offended by this part of the song. I certainly didn't do it for the money, as I probably made a hundredth of the "gold" that these performers did. Without us, they wouldn't have known about it to write this part of the song, but instead of thanking us, they insult us. - Submitted by: Z

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