Take it, to the stomach. One more tiiii-iiiiiime.
(The Stomach Song)
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I only have faint recollections of this experience, as it happened even longer ago than most of the stories in this section. When I was little, my mom and dad had a cassette tape of the Eagles album, "Eagles Live." I know that I was a big fan of this album a few years later, but evidently I liked it when I was really tiny, too.

So, we were driving somewhere one day, and I was in my child seat in the back seat of the car, and mom and dad were listening to the Eagles. Some time after the song "Take It To The Limit" ended, I asked if they could "play the Stomach Song again." Now, my parents didn't know exactly what I meant by this, since none of the songs on Eagles Live have anything to do with stomachs. My dad tells me that I was at an age where I might not actually be making any sense anyway, but I was pretty insistant that this was a real song, so one of them eventually asked me if I could sing or say some of the words of the song. At this point, I started belting out the words to the song (as they were in my mind):

"Take it... To the STOMACH!
Take it... To the STOMACH!
Take it... To the STOMACH!
One more ti-iiiime!"

At this point, I am told that my parents knew exactly what song I was talking about, and they started cracking up, because the song I was talking about is called Take it to the Limit, and goes like this:

"Take it... To the Limit!
Take it... To the Limit!
Take it... To the Limit!
One more ti-iiiime!"

The Eagles' pronunciation of the word "Limit" in that song is extremely clear and understandable, and to this day I have absolutely no idea what made me think that it said "Stomach" instead. Maybe my stomach hurt when the song was playing, so it became the "stomach song" in my mind, or something like that...