Bustle in Your Hedgerow
OK. On the way home from work I heard Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Now don't get me wrong, I like this song as much as anybody but the lyrics are a little, shall we say, obscure. My favorite inscrutable line of the song is:
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Does anybody know what this means? Am I missing something? Are the lyrics that deep? Or is it just some rocker patter that just sounded cool at the time?
K-
Found your blog link on MT's home page.
Your bustle in the hedgerow curiousity sparked my own.
I found this explanation.
HTH
chartoo
I don't know what it means. But, now that song is stuck in my head.
I hate it when that happens. Usually it's some silly advertising song that gets stuck in there.
K-
"bustle in your hedgerow" sounds a lot like "buzz still in your head (?)row(?)" After all, this is Led Zeppelin :)
~Direwolf
One thing i forgot to mention, if you look at the track time, this line starts exactly on 4:20, prooving my theory a bit more
~Dire
The history behind this song is almost as amazing as the song itself IMHO, but to answer ur question, it's been said many times the old rock tracks had satanic bits in them, this is one of those instances - for more info check out http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm - as Jeff Milner has done all the hard work for u.
DWFiZM
Dudes, it is supposedly referring to a girls period. The Bustle is the bush.
Check it out in reverse, its really freaky. Go to http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm
its all devil worshipping...
ive heard and its my opinion that its shakespearean. i know many of the lines in that song come from shaekspearean inspiration
I read in another discussion board someone explain it along these lines:
"If you hear something moving about in the bushes, don't worry about it."
(To Direwolf:) what does that line starting at 4:20 have to do with your theory? (which is more an imaginative mishearing of the lyrics than a theory really)
a bustle is a woman's bra, a hedgerow is british for bushes, like in your front yard, the mayqueen was a popular washing machine, so "if there's a bra in your bushes, don't worry, its just a springclean for you washing machine"
...interesting pun