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Bruce Springsteen's manager settles ‘Born to Run’ lyric debate

Bless you, David Remnick.

For The New Yorker , Remnick got to the bottom of a heated online debate over lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" sparked by this tweet:

Well, did Mary's dress sway or wave?

"The word is ‘sways,' Jon Landau, The Boss' longtime manager and co-producer, wrote to Remnick. "That’s the way he wrote it in his original notebooks, that's the way he sang it on 'Born to Run,' in 1975, that’s the way he has always sung it at thousands of shows, and that’s the way he sings it right now on Broadway. Any typos in official Bruce material will be corrected. And, by the way, 'dresses' do not know how to 'wave.'"

Mic drop.

"Born to Run," the title track of his third studio album, was Springsteen's breakout single. It endeared him him to the masses in a way his two preceding albums fell short. The 20-time Grammy winner recently recalled that the first time he heard himself on the radio, however, it was "Spirit of the Night"—the eighth track on his 1973 Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. debut.

If you really want to get lost in a "Born to Run" rabbit hole, read this Rolling Stone interview from 2005.

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