OT - Wrong Song Lyrics

[andtckrtoo]

There's a Verizon commerical where the two guys cannot figure out the words to their favorite song, but they sing the wrong lyrics quite happily. It cracks me up as my little sis was always getting the lyrics to songs wrong. I'm wondering if it's as common as all that. Did anyone else do that? My sis was great at it.

I think she was once a house keeper in a former life as she used to sing, "You Never Can Fight the Dust" instead of "Another Bites the Dust."

But my all time favorite and one that causes me to chuckle every time I hear the song is: Instead of "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise" she thought it was "There's a Bathroom on the Right."

 

[endorphin_junkie]

Too funny Christine An old friend of mine had the lyrics to ACDC's 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' all wrong, she would sing, 'dirty knees in your dungarees', we still laugh at her for that:+

Take Care
Laurie

 

[marnold]

Christine,

I am famous for screwing up lyrics. My DH has been giving me the business since that commercial came out. He thinks that my "flaw" is hysterical! I am glad he can chuckle at my expense!

 

[andtckrtoo]

Laurie - that's hysterical! It's funny how we all hear things differently!

Melissa - I'm usually okay with lyrics - it's the regular speech that I have issues with. I give my DH plenty to laugh at with that, so I know what you mean. Fun isn't it?

 

[ocean laura]

I find this hysterical as well. There is a book out with the title "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy", by Gavin Edwards. Its all about lyrics that are sung wrong. The title came from the Jimmy Hendrix song sung wrong (Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky). I haven't read the book, but I have heard it's really funny.
Laura

 

[buffettgirl]

My DD and DH have a whole routine workout out based on the wrong lyrics to songs. Like "Stop the catbox" instead of Rock the Casbah and "Hold Me Closer Tony Danza" instead of Tiny Dancer.

When my DD was little and at Bible school, she thought the song lyric "I've got the peace that passeth understanding down in my heart" was "I've got a piece of pizza down in my heart."

 

[truton]

Misheard lyrics always crack me up too. I used to think Neil Diamond's song was 'Reverend Blue Jeans' instead of 'Forever in Blue Jeans'.

There's actually a term for it. It's called a mondegreen. I remember visiting a website once with some common ones. Some of them are pretty funny. Here's one place that lists a bunch:

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/wrlyric.html

 

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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

The title was supposed to be "In The Garden Of Eden." Someone had written "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," possibly while drunk, on a demo copy. A record company executive saw it and decided to use it as the title, since it sounded mystical and Eastern spirituality was big at the time, with The Beatles going to India and The Rolling Stones experimenting with Indian instruments.

 

[andtckrtoo]

TK - I went to that page you provided and howled! My DH is a huge Louie Armstrong fan and has ALWAYS said that it's "The bright blessed day and the dogs say goodnight." I laughed when I saw that. How fun!

Although I do have to admit there is a certain poetic justice in this one, if you've ever been to a Buffett Concert...

Searching for my lost singer from Mars.
Actual lyric:Searching for my last shaker of salt.
(Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville")

And a side note here - the actual lyric is "searching for my LOST shaker of salt." Which is really funny as even these guys got the lyrics wrong... http://www.margaritaville.com/lyrics_mmim.php

And I guess my sis's misunderstanding of Bad Moon on the Rise is common... Or there's a lot of bladder control issues out there. :+

 

[Mckmain]

The first one that comes to mind was my DH's....there was a song out years ago "Elvira" and one day in the car he was singing "Help Ira"....I about died...yes, of laughter....:7 :+ :7

 

[seeking_guns]

These are funny. My friends laughed pretty hard when I screwed up the James' song "Laid" from the early 90s. The REAL lyric goes: "You think you're so pretty (eeee eeeee)."

*I* was singing: "You think you're so crazy!"

Cathy

 

[alsrnbsn]

Having grown up with a dad who is a minister, my favorite is "Lead on O Kinky Turtle" instead of "Lead On, Oh, King Eternal"!

 

[seeking_guns]

I just chuckled, thinking of another one from when I was a kid.

Kenny Rogers' "Lucille"

Real lyrics: You picked the fine time to leave me, lucille
Four hungry children and a crop in the field

What I thought he was singing: Four hundred children crapped in a field

 

[endorphin_junkie]

Too Cute Amy, my Dad had a touch of irreverence as well joking about the hymn 'Gladly the Cross I'd Bear' being 'Gladlee, the Cross Eyed Bear':+ All these years later it still cracks me up:7

Take Care
Laurie

 

[allwildgirl]

There's actually a website of these. www.kissthisguy.com

My sister's friend thought that the "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" line from Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair was "As the stage rolls merrily in time...".

There's a Tool song with the lyric "Desensitized to everything" and for the longest time I thought it was "The sands of time do everything"...

 

[kathryn]

When a friend and I first heard Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey," we had no idea what he was saying. To me, it sounded like "suck the monkey's lice"(refrain) and she suggested it was Spanish "saltamonte" (grasshopper).

I also thought Michael Jackson was saying "Billy Jean is at my door" instead of "Billy Jean is not my girl" (made sense: BJ comes to his house, accusing him of being the father of her child...rather laughable when you think of it...MJ and all).

 

[nancy324]

Another really famous one like Kiss This Guy is:

"The ants are my friends
They're blowin' in the wind"

It used to be called a "mondegreen" but I don't hear that name used much anymore.
Nancy

 

[fit_fairy]

These are funny!! Do you all remember the song "Killing Me Softly"? The lyrics go: Stromin my pain with his fingers


My sister's version: Stromin my thang with his fingers Seriously and she was an adult thinking that LOL!!


Catherine

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[bjbowers]

Oh these are too funny! I know I'm guilty of it, but can't think of my own at the moment....conveninent eh?

BUT...I'm constantly laughing at my boyfriend for this same thing! I'm always asking him "what did you say????" You name it, whatever song, he makes up his own lyrics. It's hilarious.

There's a Shania Twain song out there, the title escapes me, but she says something FOR REAL like "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight..." and my mom sang "I can't believe you kiss your carpet knife!"

Oh, I remember one of mine. It's embarassing, but true...Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. My friend asked me one time what I was singing, and what I was singing was "looking for my lost jigger and saw" true story. No idea why that made sense in my mind either.

Brandi