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Moving this from the article. It always sounded like "wave she came" to me too, but this could be the poster boy for original research. See WP:OR.--Walor (talk) 22:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For over 40 years now, many lyric publications still show the line in the 1st verse erroneously as "Walking on a wave's chicane", though the correct lyrics are "Walking on a wave she came". On the YouTube video at this link [1], Jeff clearly sings "Walking on a wave she came", and you can see that his lips come together to form the "M" in "came" rather than stay apart as you would say the "N" in "chicane", and you also plainly hear that he says "wave" and not "wave'S" --- there is no "S" sound in "wave" as he says it. A "chicane" has nothing to do with waves; it's roadway feature where traffic engineers place a lot of curves in a street or racetrack to slow traffic down as evidenced by its Wikipedia entry and at the Merriam-Webster dictionary. This isn't the first time ELO had a misprint that affected them greatly, as their first album was mistakenly titled "No Answer" due to an error upon release.

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