> My take on this thread, I think there are three parts of
> the lyric that are better suited to a male character. They
> are:
>
> Oh babe, don't go
>
> (really just the word babe, it's something that would be
> said to a woman)
>
> For giving me a child when my body is old
>
> (I suppose it could make sense, but I don't see a woman
> saying this)
>
> Can't you see my faded levi's bursting apart
>
> (If the poet envisioned this as a "boner line" then having
> a female character say this may be an issue)
>
>
>
> Even if the singer were male, or if substitutes were
> written for those three lines, I still don't think of FCOL
> as a prime candidate for a cover because:
>
> - to surpass the quality of the original recording would
> be extremely difficult, though I would never say
> impossible
>
> - the original was on a commercially successful album.
> Resurrection recordings I think are best when the song was
> released, but almost nobody ever heard it, as in Future
> and Safe Sex.
>
>
I agree with the above, but also know from Jim Cypherd's viewpoint based on past discussion about the concepts associated with the song, that even the title line "For Crying Out Loud you know I love you" is essentially a male singing to a woman.
>
> > Just listening to FCOL live with the MSO and you can quite
> > clearly hear Patti singing along with Meat and it got me
> > thinking (Oh no!) could a female singer, not necessarily
> > Patti, successfully sing FCOL? or is it one of those songs
> > that can only really be done by a male?
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