Zanzibar

Album: 52nd Street (1978)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: BILLY JOEL
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, TONIGHT MUSIC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • John In Nh from NhIt was DEFINITELY written as "pull her panties down" but changed for the final recording. Indeed-he sometimes sings "She's gonna pull her panties down for me," live.
  • Seanfir from Collinsville IlThere's an interesting little tease in the lyrics... He sings she'll be waiting there in shantytown, She's going to pull the curtains down for me...
    Where it's alluded in the rhyme scheme, Or possibly with censored, as " She's going to pull her panties down"... I don't know which is the truth, but it was definitely alluded to in the rhyme scheme..
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