Misheard lyrics

[sameyeyam]

The 1970's song, Jackie Blue. DD asked me one day if I could play the "Ohh, Ohh, Jackie Poo" song.

 

[SamRoc]

What about Elton John's Bennie and the Jets, instead of "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit" we heard "She's got electric b o o b s, her mom has too"

my brother in law used to mess that one up too! He used to sing
"Shes got ELECTRIC BROOM and a MOHAIR ROOM!"

 

[Alaska Catdog]

I was walking behind a guy who had headphones on and he keep singing "Like doing the fast thing" over and over at the top of his lungs and I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him what he was listening too, he handed me his head phones in time for me to hear the last 30 seconds of "Life in the Fast Lane" I think that's by the Eagles.
I grew up in Seattle and Heart was big when I was a kid. My little brother was singing along with their "Crazy on You" song and he kept singing "I want to pour gravy on you."
My favorite one is kind of obscure. My DH and I are of the age that we watched Sid and Marty Kroft's HR Puffinstuff when we were little kids. The theme song goes something like this "HR Puffinstuff, who's your friend things get tough, HR Puffinstuff can't do a little cause he can't do enough." My Dh insists the song is HR Puffinstuff, where to go when things get tough, HR Puffinstuff could get better but it's gonna get worse." I always lmao at that one.

 

[Cool-Beans]

The chorus of "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley goes as follows:

I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

I always thought the first line was "I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

I don't know why, it doesn't make any sense. My DW laughed her behind off when she heard this.

I knew I had to be wrong, but the best I could make out was, "I'm not talkin bout millenium..."

Hate to sound old, but these kids today don't know how lucky they are that they can just look up lyrics on the internet. Or buy a song for a dolllar and just rewind. We had to wait until the song happened to come on the radio and listen for that part and think, "Damn! What the hell did he say? I still don't know. I guess it is 'millenium'..."

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

Ooooooooooooo nobody's posted this yet!


"Hooold me cloooser, Tony Daaaaaaaaaaaaaanza!"



I have not been able to listen to the song seriously again. Ever.

 

[mjrich73]

Christmas Eve we brought our Rock Band to the inlaws house for our big get together... my DBIL was singing Metallica's - Enter Sandman...when he got to the "Grain of Sand" part, he sang "Groin of Sand" We all TOTALLY LOST IT We've got it on video, so there is no forgetting that one!!

 

[DumboPrincess]

One of Alamis Morrisette songs...instead of "Cross I bear..." I thought it was "Cross-eyed bear"

Lucinda Williams, "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"..."Cartwheels on a Gravel Road"...ouch!

I'm sure there's more...

 

[lisadr]

I will repeat my DH:

Ramones "I wanna be sedated"-
DH version "I wanna a piece of ***!"

 

[Scornelius]

I thought that for years!!


Over the summer I was in an outdoor exercise class and whenever The Pussycat Dolls came on singing When I Grow Up there was always a big debate about the lyrics. Half the class thought they were singing "When I grow up I wanna have b o o b ies" rather than groupies. LOL.

I thought it was ****ies!!

Thought of another one....

In the sing "As I Lay Me Down" by Sophie B Hawkins....

It sounds like the background singers are saying "Who wants tacos" I have no idea what they really say, but I'm sure that's not right

OMG! It does!! And I have no idea what they're really saying!


Mine is from 'Kokomo' by the Beach Boys. The real line is 'From Martinique, that Montserrat mystique'. Until about 5 years ago, I could only hear 'That mom's a rotten stink'. Well, that's still all I hear, but now I'm aware that I'm wrong.

 

[Miss_Mouse]

Over the summer I was in an outdoor exercise class and whenever The Pussycat Dolls came on singing When I Grow Up there was always a big debate about the lyrics. Half the class thought they were singing "When I grow up I wanna have b o o b ies" rather than groupies. LOL.

Evidently, the radio version was edited to be "groupies." The album version actually is "****ies."

I don't know why.

 

[Scornelius]

Evidently, the radio version was edited to be "groupies." The album version actually is "****ies."

I don't know why.

Ok, good. Well, not GOOD, cause it's a stupid line, but good that I'm not crazy.

 

[Jennasmomma]

A few years ago my DD was singing a song with a friend. They were singing Hips Dont Lie by Shakira. Only they were singing "My hips dont shine".

When I corrected them the friend said... well they dont shine either! lol

 

[disneygals]

And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me. (Proud to be an American)


When my dd was little, she sang

And I'd like to thank the man who died and gave his wife to me

 

[bethbuchall]

In Manfred Mann's Blinded by the Light-

Well, he says "revved up like a deuce"....
To say it nicely, instead of deuce, I thought they were talking about a feminine product like Massingil.... You make the rhyme!!

Oh my! Very embarrassing!!!

I still have to look those lyrics up occasionally to remember what it is supposed to be.

The chorus of "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley goes as follows:

I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

I always thought the first line was "I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

I don't know why, it doesn't make any sense. My DW laughed her behind off when she heard this.

That's what I still hear in certain versions even though I know I'm wrong.

I used to hear "There's a warm wind blowing the stars around." I always wondered why they would say that!

Me, too. In fact, I didn't realize it until you posted.

When I was little, I thought Elton John was singing "little G-man" not "Little Jeannie." I even asked my mother what a G-man was. She answered without asking why I wanted to know, so I sang that song wrong for years.

 

[kimmar067]

....how 'bout "...I'll never need no pizza burnin'..." for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tRdBsnX4N4

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[...if you don't click on the link, it's from the Rolling Stones song Beast of Burden - "...I'lll never BE your beast of burden..." ]

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[andysgirl360]

DS had been singing "little man die" instead of "live and let die" - we still tease him about it

Have a good friend who always butchered lyrics - if I remember any of his classic blunders I'll post again

My DD sang "shrivel and die" instead of Live and Let Die....

 

[andysgirl360]

I had a friend that thought Steve Miller's song said "big hotel with the light on" instead of " Big old Jet Airliner."

CCR "There's a bad moon on the rise." "There's a bathroom on the right."

Queen "Another on bites the dust." "Another one rides the bus."

Cinderella's "Don't know what you got till it's gone." "Don't know what it is but it's long."

Just a few of my favorites.

I think Big Old Jet Airliner sounds like "big Ol' Jed in a lineup"

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

I thought of a couple more.

My brother thought Kenny Rogers was singing, "four hundred children done cr apped in the field..." instead of four hungry children and a crop in the field... LOLOLOL.

Then there is that 80s song about a girl who might be dead? I can't for the life of me remember her name, but there is a lyric that says, "the mud flowed out of her pajamas..." I thought it said, ummmmm... well a female body part beginning with V. OOOOOPS!!!

Oh, eta, our Mom thought Wild Cherry was singing, "play that f!!!! music white boy!" instead of "play that funky music white boy!" My sister had to do some seriously fast talking to convince her she was hearing wrong! LOLOLOL!

 

[SC Minnie]

In the early 80's when Foreigner 4 came out I was listening to 'Urgent'. My mom asked me what they were saying. ??? I asked her what she tought they were saying and she said 'virgin'. She was going to take to album away from me.

When DD was about 5 or 6 AC/DC song Highway to Hell came on the radio. DD asked DH if they were saying Highway to Help. He said yes. She sang Highway to HELP for years before reading the name of the song on the CD jacket.

 

[stashbin]

Maybe it is time to post Hotel California - it's been awhile

OMG I am at work and I just laughed so loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That is the funniest thing I have read in a while! Thanks for taking the time to do that!
Now can you work on Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen for me?