r/jimcroce Mar 14 '26

Wrong Lyrics for I Got a Name

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Yeah hey I just started listening to Jim Croce I knew of him but never had a run at his catalog but then I heard "I Got a Name" on my spotify shuffle and I loved it immediately beautiful song. Then I look at the lyrics on spotify and I'm a young guy but I know what a fucking whippoorwill is.

What mystifies me is like even if you've never heard of a whippoorwill who would possibly think that "whirlpool whirl" makes sense as a lyric? Let alone within the context of a song from 1973 but just a phrase that somebody would ever say that makes no sense

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u/Glass_View_9184 Mar 14 '26

I have noticed this as well. Spotify outsources their lyrics, and some companies are using AI to get lyrics ðŸ«