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So, the reality was that Manfred Mann recorded the song on a tape that supposedly was off-angle and unintentionally resulted in somewhat garbled lyrics. He did intentionally reword "cut loose like a deuce" (insert poop joke about pinching a loaf) to "revved up like a deuce." But the public's fascination with the unintelligible song that they could easily request/identify because Mann also added a Chopsticks solo resulted in a more popular hit.

This follows a similar pattern to Louie Louie, originally recorded by Richard Berry (Chuck and Marvin's totally for real cousin, obv.) and received well regionally, but didn't really get much attention. It was later covered and retitled Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen on a shitty setup that caused the lyrics to sound all sorts of wonky. This left the lyrics open to interpretations that escalated to the song being labeled pornographic. This, of course, made it more popular.

Point being, if you love the song so much, then people like me are important in bringing misguided attention to them. People like you are important in properly appreciating the artist and keeping them from going insane over internet users with "fart" in their names chewing up their art and pooping out immature comments.