Mis heard lyrics..

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:57pm

OK folks we have all done it, sang with others around at the top of our lungs the wrong words! They have been "coined "mondegreens" was coined by Sylvia Wright in 1954 Atlantic article. As a young child she had listened to a folk song that included the line "They had slain the Earl of Moray/ And Lady Mondegreen", but the actual lyric was "They had slain the Earl of Moray/ And laid him on the green"" ( Just to let folks know that much of that passage was taken from the book
"Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" by Gavin Edwards.
So sing out loud and proud! What have you misheard?
Here is my biggest gaff..

From John Denver's Calypso
"Aye Calypso I sing to your spirit, I met you last summer so long, and farewell!
OK folks please make me feel better that I am not the only goof ball in the adults smoking room.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:01pm

Hold me closer, Tony Danza?

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:03pm

"Wrapped up like a douche another rotor in the night"

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:08pm

Yeah that one from Creedence is pretty common!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:10pm

Great thread!

Life in the vaseline

(instead of Life in the fast lane)

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:10pm

"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
the girl with kaleidoscope eyes misheard as
the girl with colitis goes by.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:15pm

Elton John had trouble with Tiny Dancer -

my sister always used to sing:

count the head lice on the highway

(I have no idea why she thought he would write that...)

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:17pm

and, the famous one (not mine...):

Jose, can you see?

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 05:17 PM

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:27pm

I used to think it was head lice on the highway too.

Elton was just difficult to understand. Some other Elton John lyrics mishead by moi:

She's got electric boobs

Rocket man, burning up the streets for ever more

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:35pm

Nina,
my sister will be greatly relieved to know she was not alone!

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:40pm

Thank goodness for parents huh??
My mom thought "I'm Every Woman" was "Climb Every Mountain"

[shesings]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:41pm

"you make me feel, you make me feel, you make me feel like a man I'm a woman"

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 5:44pm

"Bille Jean/She's got my glove..."

it made sense to me... michael jackson always wore the 1 glove... come on, i was how old?!?!


and most recently (my sister takes the cake for this one):
Mandy Moore - In My Pocket
real lyrics:
"nothing but pennies in my pocket..."
her version:
"little red candies in my pocket..."

man were we laughing...

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 05:44 PM

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 6:49pm

The Spice Girls as song by my boss' 3 year old

"If you wanna be my brother..."

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 06:49 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 6:56pm

Until I was about 11 I thought it was "Stay in the light" instead of "Stayin' Alive"

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 6:56pm

I think that one is better than the real version beacon!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:00pm

" Elton was just difficult to understand. Some other Elton John lyrics mishead by moi: She's got electric boobs"

Nina...those were the correct words, he wrote them for me.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:14pm

Heard someone belting: "She's got a cold on a rake. Lookin' at her thighs. She's been telling lies..." (He's a cold-hearted snake. Look into his eyes.)

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:14pm

Here is one of my favorites from the book-
"Take your pants down and make it happen"
Irene Cara- Flashdance... What a feeling

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:18pm

In Stairway to Heaven, the second half of the line "And if you listen very hard,
The tune will come to you at last" sounds for all the world like "That Jew will bother you a lot."

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:20pm

Goodbye Elephant Toad... (strange mental image there)

In college we had to take Classical Culture courses and I love my Roman and Greek Myth teacher, Dr. White from Boston. Listening to him tell the tales of Olympus with a very strong accent was often quite amusing.

One day he was really wrapped up in telling a story about Posidon: "And Posidon road up from the sea on fowahosses"...
The entire class must have looked blank because he repeated the phrase several times then finally said the words slowly while he flashed four fingers and made motions like he was riding a horse.

Four Horses.

We all burst out laughing.

One of my classmates used to take notes in his class by writing them phonetically. If you borrowed them you had sometimes had to read them out loud to get what she had heard. :o)

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:45pm

Scar Tissue by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Real lyric: "With the birds I share this lonely view, yeah."
Misheard lyric: "With the burns I shed, it's like 'long live you, man'."
(My brother always tries to convince people that his "burn" lyric is correct because the song is about 'scar tissue'.)

Hella Good by No Doubt

Real lyric: "The waves keep on crashin' on me for some reason"
Mishead lyric: "Girlies keep on crushin' on me for some reason"
(I hear it this way even though I know the real lyrics)

The Animal Song by Savage Garden

Real lyric: "I want to live like animals!"
Misheard lyric: "I want to live! Highway canonballs!"
(my friend Audrey was convinced this was the lyric, and the rest of us thought it was so funny, that we've adopted it.)
www.kissthisguy.com

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 07:45 PM

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:48pm

Haven't been to the web site in ages, but the books I have are falling apart from so much re-rereading!

[HunterFosterIsMyGod]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 7:51pm

one was (the song that goes "yo mama don't dance and yo daddy don't rock n' roll") and it was "you vomit up plants"..or something. hmm.

[Michelleruth2]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 8:44pm

In my groggy mind, when the clock radio goes off early in the morning, I hear George Harrison singing "Wake up I might sit on you". I think it is supposed to be "I've got my mind set on you". A bit of a difference. LOL!