The ignorance of the PC crowd has reached a peak. Parents and students, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, complained to the Board of Education to stop the marching from playing a song with raunchy lyrics. The first question is why should a marching band be worried about lyrics? Marching bands don't have singers so the question of lyrical content is mute.

The story gets better.

The song in question is the Kingsmen classic Louie Louie.

The Louie Louie controversy started in 1964 when an angry parent complained to Attorney General Robert Kennedy about a "pornographic" record. "The lyrics are so filthy that I can-not enclose them in this letter," wrote the distressed parent.

To this day, most people can not make out what the lyrics actually were. The Kingsmen recorded the song on crappy equipment for only 50 dollars. Rumor has it that lead singer Jack Ely were so drunk that he could barely sing the song. That's probaby true since he incorrectly taught the band the riff from the Richard Berry version of the song. Ely accidently changed the arrangement.

The FBI was put on the case and they couldn't figure out what Ely was singing. So what were the dirty words are parents in 1964 and 2005 hearing? I haven't read of a parent citing any of the song's actual verses.

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