Musical censorship like the old days | Michael Tomasky

So I was in a store yesterday afternoon, and "Late in the Evening" came on the sound system. That's a nice song, I thought. Haven't heard it in ages. So I'm enjoying myself, and he gets to the third verse: I learned to play some lead guitar/and I'uz underage in this funky bar/and I...And I what? The next line, of course, is "stepped outside to smoke myself a J." And I was lightly singing along, and I started singing those words, but lo and behold, they were cut. It skipped to: and I turned my am...

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