Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:FIRE!

D'yer Mak'er is great.

PHATJ wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I've never understood the dislike for "D'yer Ma'ker" -- it's catchy as hell.

I first heard this song as a kid on our local classic rock station that my mom would often listen to as she would run errands all over town. I’ve always been a fan. Easy vote for me.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Imagine my surprise when, somewhere in my mid 20s, I learned that "D'yer Maker" was a casual way to say "Did you make her?" Which sounds nothing like the "die-er maker" title the jabronis north of Boston were using about during my teens.

I thought it was a way of saying "Jamaica?"

I had not heard this but I am open to it. Either way those Sicilian knuckleheads that used to casually call me a fag were way off base on this one.

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Imagine my surprise when, somewhere in my mid 20s, I learned that "D'yer Maker" was a casual way to say "Did you make her?" Which sounds nothing like the "die-er maker" title the jabronis north of Boston were using about during my teens.

I thought it was a way of saying "Jamaica?"

I had not heard this but I am open to it. Either way those Sicilian knuckleheads that used to casually call me a fag were way off base on this one.

Plant said it was the way it sounds to us Yanks when Brits say Jamaica.

The name of the song is derived from an old joke, where two friends have the following exchange:

"My wife's gone to the West Indies."

"Jamaica?" (which sounds like "Did you make her?")

"No, she wanted to go".

Birds in Hell wrote:From the Wikipedia entry on the song:

The name of the song is derived from an old joke, where two friends have the following exchange:

"My wife's gone to the West Indies."

"Jamaica?" (which sounds like "Did you make her?")

"No, she wanted to go".