Misheard Lyrics- Page 2

[wildcat]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 12:27am

A friend who was cast as Joanne in "Company" had never been able to understand what Stritch was singing in "Ladies Who Lunch" after "I'll drink to that"...AND ONE FOR MAHLER! My friend had always thought she was saying...AND ONE FIRM OLIVE!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 12:43am

There was a thread on this before, but I couldn't find it and it was awhile ago.

- In "Belle", at the end, when all the townspeople yell out random phrases ("Mais oui!", etc., etc.), when Gaston yells "Pardon!" it sounds like he yells out "Hot dog!"

- In "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" in the 42nd Street revival CD, when Mary Testa sings "First you serve them with subpoenas" (sp?), it sounds like "First you serve them with some p**is."

- In "One Day More" from Les Mis (I forgot which cast recording) it sounds like Javert sings: "One more day to revolution/We will nip it in the butt/I will join these little schoolboys/They will wet themselves, La!"

- I also noticed that "You really were a b*tch" in the POTO recording.

I bet there are more I have.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:03am

The neverson babies site isn't working right now

But I think y'all are thinking of
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

Updated On: 1/28/05 at 01:03 AM

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:46am

I thought it was "Pour us coffee in America" when it's actually "For a small fee in America" (West Side Story), and from 1776 - "Them soldiers, they fart...oh, Ma, did we run" when it's actually "Them soldiers, they fired."

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 12:38pm

In Wicked (Defying Gravity) I thought that Elphaba said "as someone told me recently" instead of "as someone told me lately", boy was I wrong.

[Justice]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:15pm

Wicked
"The Wizard and I":

Degreen F.I.U. (I figured it was some code)
(Degreenify You)

Rent
"Take Me or Leave Me":

I make mistakes in my sleep, baby
(I make lists in my sleep, Baby)

Chess
"How Many Women":

My nights with Gunther and Prunes
(My nights with Goethe and Proust)

Deamgirls
"I am Changing":

All those years of darkness,
a thousand points of light.
(Could make a person blind)

I'll change my life
I'll make it better.
(I'll make a vow)

Miss Saigon
"The Heat is On in Saigon":

Says the Engineer (but with his accent, I thought he was saying Enconeer)
(Since the end is so near)

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:24pm

The intro to Judy Garland's "Palace Medley" at her Palace engagement in 1951:

Actual lyric: "...Vaudeville's back at the Palace, and I'm on the bill!"

What I heard: "...Vaudeville's back at the Palace, and I'm off the pills!"

I thought it was an odd bit of special material...

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:29pm

SO many Daphne Out Tonight ones!! Let's see...

When I get away from the door man is

when I get a WINK from the door man

where this jiggle down to the flayamyammayame

is where this chick'll dance in the flaaamyameyammayame

of that value bee!!

is of avenue B!

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:37pm

My personal favorite: "You're a sensitive aesthete" from "Santa Fe" I ALWAYS thought was "You're as sensitive as feet."

[personB]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 1:38pm

On the Joseph CD with Donny Osmond, on the song "The Brothers Come to Egypt" there's a section where I thought they were saying "Gobble, Gobble...Gobble, Gobble...". But in reality, they're singing "Grovel, Grovel...Grovel, Grovel..."

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 3:46pm

Chicago: All That Jazz
(actual) I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down.
(what I heard) I'm gonna rouge my knees and almost knock things down.

POTO: (Prima Donna)
(actual) age old rapport
(what I heard) an angel once more
(I like my version better)

Wicked: (Wizard and I)
(actual) You'll be making good
(what I heard) You'll be making clothes

Les Miz: (Bring Him Home) These aren't mine but its funny anyway
(actual) God on High
(Other) God on Rye
(annnd my personal favorite) God I'm High
Updated On: 1/28/05 at 03:46 PM

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 4:10pm

in yagmcb, I always thought the line was "could you please send erections to where you are" lol.

[MatureDignity]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 5:07pm

http://www.journey-on.com/lyrics

I think it's working now.

Oh, the Jimi Hendrix thing reminded me of this - while listening to "Look at the Sky" from Urinetown one day, my former roommate asked me who "this guy" was. I assumed she wanted to know who was singing, but she thought the lyrics to the song were "There's a heart/In this guy/There just is/Don't ask why/ It's this guy." So now that's what I hear. Updated On: 1/28/05 at 05:07 PM

[Loge]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 6:32pm

Sounds just like it's written to me:

Can it be?
Can it be Christine? Bravo!
What a change.
You're really not a bit.
The gawkish girl
That once you were.

I knew it was "bit" from the first time I heard it.

Mine is from Janet Jackson's ESCAPE. She says, "let's go, Minneapolis." For years, I thought it was, "Let's go, learn the alphabet!"

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 8:35pm

The first time I heard "La Vie Boheme," I said out loud, "Did they just say "To Yoda, to yogurt"?!"

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:02pm

from tick tick boom
the entire first thing that Jon sings.
I still can't understand it even though i know the words

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:05pm

For about a minute of "Over the Moon" I thought that they were saying "King Buffet" in the background instead of "leap of faith." Don't ask.

[singinswinga]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:07pm

In Wicked, in the song "Thank Goodness," in the beginning part when everyone's scared of the Wicked Witch, they're like, "Like some terrible green lizard, throughout the land she flies! Defaming our poor Wizard with her *blah blah blah* and lies! She LIIEEESSS!!"
What is *blah blah blah*? is it "fallacies?"

[me101]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:12pm

Swinga, its calumies. No I don't know what it means

[singinswinga]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:16pm

me101, that's not a word!

[me101]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:17pm

Don't blame me! I looked it up

[me101]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:19pm

My mistake, its Calumnies, with an N

[singinswinga]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:19pm

where did you look it up? it's not on m-w.com. sorry to be so anal about it i just really want to know what they say!

[singinswinga]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:20pm

oh, ok, thanks. never mind. :)

[442namffug]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:31pm

Thought it was "And I'll walk up the ailes till I die"...It is "And I'll want nothing else til I die."