Misheard song lyrics
Elliott Kim
different words? Take for example, Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song.'
On we sweep
Thrashing oar
Our only goal is the Western shore
the first few times I heard that I thought it sounded more like:
On we sweep
Thrashing oar
I wanna go to a restaurant show
If you're imaginative (or drunk) enough, you may hear it for yourself too.
Then there's the famous Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" one:
To some people "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" is sometimes heard as
" 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
The one that made me think of the whole affair was Megadeth's "Rust In
Peace - Polaris"
Dave Mustaine sings the lyric: High Priest of the Holocaust
It sometimes sounds like : Higher than a Hydrox [cookie]
I know this happens to other people too and I'm not just loaded up on
mind altering substances. People have pointed some of these out to me.
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College Park
Ilkka Pyyk|nen
: Then there's the famous Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" one:
: To some people "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" is sometimes heard as
: " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
Actually, that phrase is from "Purple Haze"
IP
merrill d tritt
: Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as
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A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the
most people could not understand was a line in the chorus of Elton
John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..)
It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were
hilarious.
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rebel without a clue
Nails' "Closer" was "My whole existence is fraud," rather than "My whole
existence is flawed."
'Nother words, I thought Trent had gotten it right for once.
Laura
Hein_t_z Mueller
Hi,
>Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as
>different words? Take for example, Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song.'
> On we sweep
> Thrashing oar
> Our only goal is the Western shore
There's a spoken line in ,,Woolly Bully'' (rather at the beginning) which
sounds (for me and some people I know, that is ;-))
like the german sentence (in hessian dialect)
,,Walter, mach die Dier (Tuer) zu" (Phonetic:
ualdr maX dee deer tsoo)
(Walter, close the door...) I could never identify the right wording.
Does someone know?
>Elliott Kim mil...@wam.umd.edu
>University of Maryland @eng.umd.edu
>College Park
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IP>: To some people "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" is sometimes heard as
IP>: " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"
IP>Actually, that phrase is from "Purple Haze"
The best is the oldie song that goes
"Hang on Snoopy (?), Snoopy hang on".
I used to sing: "Hang on Stupid, Stupid hang on!".
I was only 5 or 6 yrs old, so I had no clue as to what they really were
saying. :)
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Andrew Rogers
>>Have you ever listened to a song and heard the lyrics in a song as
>>different words?
Yes, but I've already posted the dirty words to "Louie Louie" on the three
other newsfroups where this topic has arisen in the past couple weeks...
>There's a spoken line in ,,Woolly Bully'' (rather at the beginning) which
>sounds (for me and some people I know, that is ;-))
>like the german sentence (in hessian dialect)
>,,Walter, mach die Dier (Tuer) zu" (Phonetic:
> ualdr maX dee deer tsoo)
The lyrics are
(spoken intro:) Uno, dos... one, two, tres, quatro
Wooly bully... watch it watch it...
Here he comes, here he comes ["hand job, hand job" as we misheard
it back in high school]
He'll get 'cha
Mattie told Hattie / about the thing she saw
Had two big horns / and a wooly jaw
Wooly bully, wooly bully [that's right]
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully
Hattie told Mattie / let's not take no chance
Let's not be L7 [square] / come and learn to dance
Mattie told Hattie / it's the thing to do
Get you someone really / to pull the wool with you
AWR
old fart at play, who once got kicked out of an early music store for
playing the sax solo from "Wooly Bully" on a contrabass recorder
Matt Brockman
For a long time, I thought that the Ramones'
"I want to be sedated" was "I want apiece of it"
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"If you pass the Rabid Child, say 'Hammer Down' for me."
"I'm so tired, I don't know what to think."
"Ground Control to Major Tom: Your circuit's dead; there's something wrong."
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amar...@sallie.wellesley.edu
from the just lovely 80's song "I get weak" version by belinda carlisle
"with a kiss you can trip me to kansas."
real version "with a kiss you can get me defenseless" (i think.)
also, from my roommate's sister:
"no matter what your french fries tell you, we were made to fall in love"
real lyric: "no matter what your friends try to tell you, we were made
to fall in love" from some bobby brown song, title escapes me.
brillant.
alice
the mood ring gyrl
amar...@wellesley.edu
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Leanne McInnes
1. Advance Australia Fair
..We've golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is DIRT by sea...
(Our home is GIRT by sea)
he says "Who knows what girt means anyway?"
2. Clancy of the Overflow
..As the stock are slowly stringing
Clancy HIDES behind them, singing...
(Clancy RIDES behind them, singing)
This one had me ROTFL!
ning
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Gunther Anderson
: A poll was done in Goldmine a few years back and the the song that the
: John's "Rocket Man" (Rocket man, burning out his dreams up there alone..)
: It was quite amusing to read all the different versions. Some were
: hilarious.
Hmm. I thought the lyric sheets I had put it at "burning out his fuse up
here alone." Just goes to show that sometimes the guy singing the song
can hear different lyrics, too, sometimes. And then there's Michael
Stipe, who, rumour has, doesn't know what he's singing to begin with...
Gunther Anderson
Mike 'Hrivy' Friedman
Matt Brockman <mbro...@bank.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>For a long time, I thought that the Ramones'
>"I want to be sedated" was "I want apiece of it"
Yeah... I thought it was "I want a piece of Eden" for awhile.
On a related note, my roommate thought that on STP's "Vaseline"
they said "summer in the gasoline", instead of "somewhere in the Vaseline".
I thought that was pretty funny...
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Michael John Falkner
: real lyric: "no matter what your friends try to tell you, we were made
: to fall in love" from some bobby brown song, title escapes me.
"Every Little Step", I think...
Mike
Brian T.Gray
the chorus goes:
"A mullato, an albino, a mosquito, a libido"
but I thought it was:
"There's a ladder in the backyard that can take us up to Venus"
At the end of the song, he repeatedly yells "A denial", I thought he was saying
"Put an eye out". Ah, well.
Brian
Mike 'Hrivy' Friedman
Brian T.Gray <b...@aurora.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>I had a rough time understanding "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The last line of
>the chorus goes:
>"A mullato, an albino, a mosquito, a libido"
Actually, I think it is "my libido", which I lost 5 bucks on it a
bet becuase I swore he said "jalepeno"... :)
Chris Call
Hmm... I've seen it in song books as "burning out his fuel up here alone."
-- Chris
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Tricky J.
was "Better than Danni Minogue".She also used to sing "you spin me round like a ragged baby" instead of "like a record baby" by Dead Or Alive :) Just a few of the blunders my sisters made thru her life...but hey!! gotta love her for em :)
Tricky.
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Spirit", I was positive that the phrase Kurt Cobain kept bellowing at the
end was "dirty nylons", not "a denial". Likely story... :-)
--Eliz
Charles Board
The first few times I heard Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"
I coulda sworn it was "Do The Bag Lady".....
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rebel without a clue <delc...@ab.wvnet.edu> wrote:
>This is a minor one, but for quite a while I thought the line in Nine Inch
>Nails' "Closer" was "My whole existence is fraud," rather than "My whole
>existence is flawed."
Another minor NIN one - for years I was convinced "Terrible Lie" was
"Tell a Lie"...
>'Nother words, I thought Trent had gotten it right for once.
HERESY! BLASPHEMY! TIE HER TO THE RACK!
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EAI>Spirit", I was positive that the phrase Kurt Cobain kept bellowing at the
EAI>end was "dirty nylons", not "a denial". Likely story... :-)
I recorded the video when Mtv ran it with the words! That was the first
time I had any clue what they were saying. Well actually, you could
vaguely recognize some of the lyrics from the *wavy* notes in the liner.
So I knew a line or two before the video came out with the words. :)
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A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido, yeah.
Merrill D. Tritt
: Gunther Anderson
It possibly could be "fuse" and not "dreams." I dont care for Elton John
myself so I dont really listen to his stuff. I was quoting from memory
and my memory is wrong from time to time :)
Unknown
wrote:
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>
> The first few times I heard Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"
> I coulda sworn it was "Do The Bag Lady".....
Cool! When I first heard it, I swear he says "Do The Funky Lady"
DA SKIRROW
>From: (relgov)
>Subject: Re: Misheard song lyrics
>Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:44:18 GMT
How about The Black Crows "Hard to Handle" The line that goes "..let my
light your candle `cos"
I was convinced it was "light your chemicals!"
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