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Title: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: rumborak on April 28, 2012, 06:04:41 PM
Based on the discussion Flying Colors had during the writing of the song. What's your perceived correct order?

rumborak
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: robwebster on April 28, 2012, 06:08:58 PM
I think the "correct" order depends on what the person you're responding to just said.

If they'd said "I should have done more" the right order would be "Shoulda, coulda, woulda." If they'd said "I could have done more" I'd (never) respond with "coulda, woulda, shoulda."

I think the order of priority is probably "coulda, woulda, shoulda," but you always lead with what you're responding to. That said, the bottom one just looks right. Which did FC go with? Don't have the album myself.

All I know is that the more I look at these words written down, the less they look like actual words. Which, in their defence, they're not, so good work them.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: senecadawg2 on April 28, 2012, 06:29:15 PM
I've always thought it was coulda woulda shoulda. Never heard anything else either... :/
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: DebraKadabra on April 28, 2012, 06:36:03 PM
I've always thought it was coulda woulda shoulda. Never heard anything else either... :/

Same.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: ddtonfire on April 28, 2012, 06:46:13 PM
Coulda woulda shoulda.

I could have, but i couldn't because __________, and I would have, but i didn't, because then__________, and now looking back, I should have, because ________.

I think the first two are interchangeable, since they're both kind of pre- and should have is post; completely hindsight.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 28, 2012, 08:29:08 PM
The correct order is "Shoulda coulda woulda."
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: King Postwhore on April 28, 2012, 08:34:54 PM
The correct order is "Shoulda coulda woulda."

I think this is correct.  Haven't used the term in a long long time.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: pogoowner on April 28, 2012, 08:51:35 PM
The correct order is "Shoulda coulda woulda."
Aye.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: senecadawg2 on April 28, 2012, 09:35:29 PM
Nah.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Gadough on April 28, 2012, 10:03:32 PM
We don't say stupid shit like this in the south. We're too busy sounding high-class and sophisticated.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Fiery Winds on April 28, 2012, 10:13:31 PM
Shoulda coulda woulda.  Partly because it sounds right to me, and partly because they used it in an Eastwood auto insurance commercial, telling an uninsured motorist who was just in an accident, "Shoulda coulda East-woulda!".
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: theseoafs on April 28, 2012, 10:20:51 PM
Every option but Shoulda Coulda Woulda sounds very strange to me.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: LieLowTheWantedMan on April 28, 2012, 11:22:46 PM
The first and last ones I seem to alternate between.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: BlobVanDam on April 29, 2012, 12:53:08 AM
I've never actually used the phrase, so it doesn't bother me either way. I'm just wondering, is there any justification for a "right" way besides being the one you're used to?
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: jcmistat on April 29, 2012, 02:36:29 AM
Coulda Shoulda Woulda was my vote. Now that I think about it I easily could have chosen others :lol
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: TheGreatPretender on April 29, 2012, 01:49:14 PM
Coulda Shoulda Woulda was my vote. Now that I think about it I easily could have chosen others :lol

That one makes the most sense to me, because it's like, "I could've done it... Dammit, I should've done it... If I realized that then, I would've done it."
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: jammindude on April 29, 2012, 03:27:24 PM
Woulda Coulda Shoulda is all I've ever heard it...

But what's really surprising me is that the results really don't show any definitive answer.  I think that pretty much proves that it's very cultural specific...depends on the area you live in...or your particular group of friends.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Super Dude on April 29, 2012, 04:25:51 PM
Second choice.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: sueño on June 04, 2013, 01:47:11 PM
Lou Rawls says:  "If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaM8kQnJjY4
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: gmillerdrake on June 04, 2013, 02:08:50 PM
Did.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Ben_Jamin on June 04, 2013, 02:33:10 PM
I don't think it matters. They all say the same thing.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: jasc15 on June 04, 2013, 02:42:19 PM
The correct order is "Shoulda coulda woulda."
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Kotowboy on June 04, 2013, 03:07:20 PM
" Damn I bought an Encore Strat when I had the money for a Fender USA Strat. :/ . I shoulda bought that instead"

" Yes. You're an idiot. "


 :hat
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Sir GuitarCozmo on June 04, 2013, 05:57:44 PM
I would default to alphabetical order in the absence of a specific rule, so CSW.
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: black_biff_stadler on June 04, 2013, 06:43:07 PM
We don't say stupid shit like this in the south. We're too busy sounding high-class and sophisticated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhyj5Szmks
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: jonnybaxy on June 04, 2013, 06:49:23 PM
Staring at them words just made me do that thing where the word doesn't make sense and looks wrong.... But went for A
Title: Re: What is the "correct" order?
Post by: Lucien on June 04, 2013, 08:21:22 PM
Looking at the poll is making me want to pronounce the L's in the words