Misunderstood Lyrics

I recently heard a song on KXCI that I had not heard since I was a child. My parents were Johnny Cash fans, and I often heard this song, "The One on the Right is on the Left." When I was five years old, I thought this was a silly little song. In my mind, I pictured the "one on the right" running over to then be the "one on the left" - kind of like a musical chairs games. Even if I knew that "right" and "left" referred to political views, I would not have understood the lyrics to this song. When I heard this song after so many years, it was like a revelation. I was laughing out loud in my car, as I heard these lyrics from a new, adult perspective.
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