Misheard songs
Tony Mason
(Just thought it was time for it to get its own thread)
Since this confusion was pointed out to me, I am unable to
listen to "When the going gets tough." Every time the
chorus comes around, it sounds like "You can go and get stuffed..."
Bye for now, and remember:
Eschew obfuscation!
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>tma...@ooldea.awadi (Tony Mason) writes:
>>(Just thought it was time for it to get its own thread)
>>Since this confusion was pointed out to me, I am unable to
>>listen to "When the going gets tough." Every time the
>>chorus comes around, it sounds like "You can go and get stuffed..."
>I had a friend who swore he thought "There's a bad moon on the rise"
>was "There's a bathroom on the right".
>- Dave
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From the Blues Brothers craze...."I was soooo bad" (sounds better than
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Andrew Rogers
>I had a friend who swore he thought "There's a bad moon on the rise"
>was "There's a bathroom on the right".
A few years ago _Goldmine_ magazine ran a "misheard lyrics" contest; nearly
1/3 of the entrants heard "bad moon on the rise" as "bathroom on the right"!
The winner, by the way, was the following line from the Beatles' "Lucy In
The Sky With Diamonds":
"A girl with colitis goes by"
Andrew
ko...@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
This old one that goes 'video killed the radio star'
I always thought it said 'betty don't care for radio star'
Even still I hear it that way once in a while
Jussi Koria
Nokia Telecommunications
Finland
Ted Zuvich
was "Ride the Pony! Ride the Pony!" (Cheap sexual innuendo). I don't know
what the real words are. Maybe it really _is_ "Ride the Pony!"
Kathleen Dunn
Um I think that really IS what he sings/yells :)... Hell, we added even less
innuendo'ed (is that a word) when we danced to it at parties... um.. Sort of
made it a call and response thing, like in Rocky Horror..
Billy Idol: Here she comes now, say Mony, Mony
Drunk, frenzied dancing crowd: Hey! Hey what? Get laid get fucked!
Etc.. If you want to get fancy,
1st half of D,fdc: Hey!
2nd hald:Hey what?
1st: Get laid!
2nd: Get fucked!
ANYWAY... anyone else have similar experiences with songs? That is, where the
crowd participates with words that AREN'T the lyrics, yet everyone seems to
know them?
K
Frenzied crowd dancing and drunk: Hey! Hey what
Brent Cullimore
NEVER mishear lyrics):
Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans" heard as
"Reverand Blue Jeans".
and from Oingo Boingo's Dead Man's Party, the lyric
"Leave your body and soul at the door" heard as
"Leave your body, asshole, at the door."
I'm safe: my wife's not a net-head.
BC
Adam E. Schwartz
> My wife always thought the chorus in Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony"
>was "Ride the Pony! Ride the Pony!" (Cheap sexual innuendo). I don't know
The first time I heard the song I thought it was "fucking bullshit"! Don't
know how I came up with that. And I wondered how the DJ got away with
playing it at a high school dance! Duhhhh!
My favorite is REM's "Exhuming McCarthy" -- "I'm loosing my car keys"
Jeff Timmerberg
The first time I heard the new Aerosmith song
"Eat the Rich" happened to be during the WACO standoff.
I thought the song was "Dave KO-Resh"
--Jeff Timmerberg
BONUS MISHEARD: There is a new song out (by a group whose
name escapes me) OFFICIALLY entitled "Good times with bad
bad boys". Rumor has it that the song was originally
"Good times without the boys" (i.e. the song supported the
lesbian lifestyle) but the record label forced the group to
change the song.
John J Maher
htey were singing dirty knees and frumunda cheese
Matthew L. Ward
simple replace the words "hungry eyes" with "hungry thighs" and the song
takes on a whole new meaning.
mlw
TechNomad
On the "Hungry Eyes" bit...a friend of my ex-boyfriend's sister (cousin's
brother's best friend's hamster...etc.) was, for some time, under the
impression that "Hungry Eyes" was "One Green Eye"...try the lyrics with
*that* one! (ie, "Now I've got you in my sights with my one green eye...)
Sigh.
MAC
David Hooper
Gonna get undressed
For some sex
Shapin' me up for the big one, baby
I had to see the CD booklet lyrics to set me straight...
Frank G. Rogers
turned out that she thought the line "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" went
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy".
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sylvia.a.rudy
>rat...@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Dave "Van Damme" Ratner) writes:
>
>>tma...@ooldea.awadi (Tony Mason) writes:
>
>
>>>(Just thought it was time for it to get its own thread)
>
>>>Since this confusion was pointed out to me, I am unable to
>>>listen to "When the going gets tough." Every time the
>>>chorus comes around, it sounds like "You can go and get stuffed..."
>
>>I had a friend who swore he thought "There's a bad moon on the rise"
>>was "There's a bathroom on the right".
>
>soul man to me).
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And then there's that Spanish (Mexican?) song called something like
Guantanamera. Of course, speaking no Spanish, I genrally hear
"one ton tomato". It scans great, too. Occasionally I like to annoy
my Hispanic friends by dancing aorund singing "It's a One Ton Tomato!
Oh, yeah, a One Ton Tomato! A One Ton Tomaaaaatoooh..."
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The Ugly One
How 'bout this one...
My friend listened to Chicago quite a bit, but he never knew the words...well
in the song "If She Would Have Been Faithful" there are lyrics "I wanna thank
her, thank her again." Well my friend thought the word thank was spank.
Yes, he is blonde!!!!
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Daniel B Case
>And then there's that Spanish (Mexican?) song called something like
>Guantanamera. Of course, speaking no Spanish, I genrally hear
>"one ton tomato". It scans great, too. Occasionally I like to annoy
>my Hispanic friends by dancing aorund singing "It's a One Ton Tomato!
>Oh, yeah, a One Ton Tomato! A One Ton Tomaaaaatoooh..."
Not knowing Spanish either, I came up with the following lines for "La Bamba"
"You're not funny Ed Marinaro..."
for "Yo no soy marinero"
and "Buy La Bamba! See La Bamba!" in the chorus.
On the subject of English corruptions of other languages, there was a Japanese
song popular just after the war ended called "Shina Yoru" [China Nights] which
the GIs called "She Ain't Got No Yo-Yo"
"There's no BODY-CHECKING in golf!!!"-Charlie Brown, to Lucy.
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David Hemer
> Tony Mason
There's always Jimi Hendrix's song, I think its "Purple Haze"
which has the line
"Excuse me, while I kiss the sky" (weird in itself)
which is quite easily mistaken for
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy", which sounds a bit odd coming from
Jimi.
David
Phineas Narco
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Dr. Giggles
was actually "Won't you take me to fuck me down ?"
As for me, "Shout a little bit faster now" from the movie "Animal House"
still sounds like "Fuck a little bit faster now"
Maybe, it's just my warped imagination :-)>-o
Jeff Popp
Greg Watson
>the first time I heard AC/DC doing DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP i thought
>htey were singing dirty knees and frumunda cheese
Don't they also do "It's a Long Way to the Shop if You Want a Sausage Roll"?
Tom Gillman
Some church hymns from my wife:
low in the gravy lay (Low in the grave he lay)
up from the gravy, Rose (Up from the grave he rose)
Are you sowing the seed of the king, dumb brother (Are you sowing the seed of
the kingdom, brother)
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Eric Huppertz
>
>Billy Idol: Here she comes now, say Mony, Mony
>Drunk, frenzied dancing crowd: Hey! Hey what? Get laid get fucked!
Not too long ago I was at a frat party, where they played that song and
they guys all chanted:
HEY! SO WHAT? SHE'S FAT, I'M DRUNK!
The girls there were not amused... :-)
-E.
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Roger Taranto
>On the subject of English corruptions of other languages, there was a Japanese
>song popular just after the war ended called "Shina Yoru" [China Nights] which
>the GIs called "She Ain't Got No Yo-Yo"
There's also "Ohio Kiss-a-my-ass" for "Ohio Gozimas" and "Don't touch
my mustache" (don't know how to type the transliteration for this one).
Brent T Metcalf
it happen" I coulda sworn she said "Take your pants off."
Patrick Michael Robinson
"She seems to have some billy goat action"
until we gave him the lyrics to Invisible Touch (Genesis)... =)
Susanna Reyn
boyfriend's sister that the words were "trying to
find a lover that won't blow my BROTHER" instead
of "find a lover that won't blow my COVER" so ...
She was out on a double date when the song came
on the radio, so of course, knowing the song, she
begain to sing along. Needless to say she was a
little miffed at me later!
Joseph C Fineman
(O for a thousand tongues to sing!)
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Kel
Aerosmith's Song "Tell Me What It Takes" (Pump) (If anyone knows the REAL words
for this line, PLEASE put a 3 year seach to and end!)
Anyhow, at the end of the song, Tyler sings, "Tell me that your happy that
your all alone, tell me that it's better when you're on your own, tell me that
your body doesn't miss my touch, tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much,"
and then he says what I would swear is "Tell me your in love with the paper
boy."
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Strini Padayachee
for Gloria Estefans "rhythm is gonna get you"!!!
But the best malapropism(?) I've heard was on a request show on TV a few
weeks ago. A lady phoned in and wanted the presenter to play "End of the
Men" by Boyz on the Road. The DJ was lost for a couple of seconds and as
soon as he realised what she wanted, he just cracked up.
Strini
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reports. I remember 2:
The pedestrian was running around in the road in front of me,
I had to swerve several times until I finally hit him!
I didn't see the man walk out in front of me because I was waving
to the man I ran over last week !
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> Jasper Carrot used to collect these from insurance company's accident
> reports. I remember 2:
I was gonna add the full background speil to this but I cant remember
the wording.... Memory is going I guess...
> The pedestrian was running around in the road in front of me,
> I had to swerve several times until I finally hit him!
>
> I didn't see the man walk out in front of me because I was waving
> to the man I ran over last week !
Some more off the top of my head from that list (sorry if any are
repeats of earlier postings):
The accident happened as I was scraping my nearside against the
bank.
The man admitted it was his fault as he had be run over serveral
times before.
I collided with a lamp post that was partially obscured by human
beings.
I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I havent
got.
Erm, there are 5 or 6 more. But I cant remember. If I remember, Ill post :)
Paul
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Timothy P. Henrion
>Here's one that I STILL don't know the correct wording for, it's from
>Aerosmith's Song "Tell Me What It Takes" (Pump) (If anyone knows the REAL words
>for this line, PLEASE put a 3 year seach to and end!)
>
>Anyhow, at the end of the song, Tyler sings, "Tell me that your happy that
>your all alone, tell me that it's better when you're on your own, tell me that
>your body doesn't miss my touch, tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much,"
>and then he says what I would swear is "Tell me your in love with the paper
>boy."
>
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Joseph A Dudar
>Some church hymns from my wife:
>low in the gravy lay (Low in the grave he lay)
>up from the gravy, Rose (Up from the grave he rose)
>Are you sowing the seed of the king, dumb brother (Are you sowing the seed of
>the kingdom, brother)
...round young virgin...
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Jeff Popp
The opening line of 'Help Me Rhonda' by the Beachboys sounds like:
"Ever since she put me down I got owls puking in my bed.."
Gene Golovchinsky
>In article <19930623170...@maherpc.erenj.com> jjm...@eredns.erenj.com (John J Maher) writes:
>>the first time I heard AC/DC doing DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP i thought
>>htey were singing dirty knees and frumunda cheese
The Dirty deeds line has also been confused with
Dirty Deeds done to sheep
>Don't they also do "It's a Long Way to the Shop if You Want a Sausage Roll"?
2
G
Terry Parker
: A friend of mine couldn't understand why we all liked a song with a chorus of:
: "She seems to have some billy goat action"
: until we gave him the lyrics to Invisible Touch (Genesis)... =)
:
We listening to a country western station when a song about a blue
dress comes on (I don't know the song). Anyway, there was a line in
the song like "Baby's got a blue dress on". My mother-in-law lost it
and when we asked what was wrong she said that she could believe that
they would write a song with the words
"Baby's got a blue ding dong"
David Witzel
>
The CCR hit, "There's a bathroom on the right." (Bad Moon Rising)
INXS, "Soup and Salad Bar" (Suicide Blonde)
You really have to be listening to the songs, but these fit nicely.
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called "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight."
I'm not talkin' about movin' in
And I don't wanna change your life
But there's a warm wind blowin' the stars around
And I'd really love to see you tonight.
A friend of mine always thought they were singing "I'm not talkin'
about Bolivia..."
Larry Roger Nittler
Larry Nittler
Brian Kelly
>I always thought the CCR song went: 'There's a bathroom on the right'
>Larry Nittler
I used to think the same thing! My Mom always laughed at me too!
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rian Kelly) writes:
>l...@howdy.wustl.edu (Larry Roger Nittler) writes:
>
>>I always thought the CCR song went: 'There's a bathroom on the right'
>>Larry Nittler
When I was little I always used to think the lyrics to one song were
"Jungle love, strawberry red, it's making me crazy"
You know the song
>
>I used to think the same thing! My Mom always laughed at me too!
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the dog a bone" by ACDC I thought it was "gimme the soccer ball".
A friend who found out wouldn't let me forget that until I found
out he misheard a Motorhead tune. The line was "people speculate
got nothin else to do". Yes you guessed it, he thought Lemme
said masturbate.
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andy.russo
"Might as well face it, you're a dickhead in love...."
[ actual title - Addicted To Love]
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# peace begins here and now
Jeffrey J. Olson
"I should've been gone" was "Cinnamon Gum".
Another guy thought Stevie Ray Vaughan's "That's a cold shot babe" was
"Let's go shopping".
ke...@advtech.uswest.com
In article <C938p...@meridiantc.com> je...@meridiantc.com (Jeff Timmerberg) writes:
>
>The first time I heard the new Aerosmith song
>etc.
Well, for my two cents, the most famous one of these is when the lead singer
of a band (Iron Butterfly, to be exact) was so stoned while singing his song
'In the Garden of Eden' that it came out 'In-a-gadda-da-vida', which he liked
even better than the original and spawned the longest song ever to hit the top
forty (tho granted there was a 3 minute version released also...) (this is
true, BTW) :-) %=0 <- smiley w/guitar
edgar pearlstein
This isn't exactly a song, but it's sometimes recited in a sing-song way:
"Lead us not into Penn station"
.
edgar pearlstein
"Onward Christian Solderers." (Devout electronics technicians?)
"Holey, Holey, Holey." (by sock darners?)
"Good King Sauerkraut." (Thanks Walt Kelley, wherever you are.)
.
Joseph C Fineman
>"Lead us not into Penn station"
Sometimes further modified to "Lead a snot into Penn Station".
rec...@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
"Gladly the cross eyed bear"
Tim Antonsen
(pencil thin) --Jimmy Buffet
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C. Duff
(Gladly the Cross I'd Bear)
Tim Ellis
the correct spelling of the word), one of our little group
thought the song was ONE TON TOMATOE. So one year at the NEW
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, folk singer Pete Segar
came out and sang the song. When he encouraged the crowd
to sing along on the chorus, we finally saw our opportunity.
When he stopped and covered the mike so he could hear what
we were singing:
"One ton tomatoes
Yeah, we eat one ton tomatoes
One ton tomatoes......
After he stopped laughing he was finally able to finish the song.
Neal Weidenhofer
>In article <kelly.7...@icarus.montclair.edu>, ke...@icarus.montclair.edu (B
>rian Kelly) writes:
>>l...@howdy.wustl.edu (Larry Roger Nittler) writes:
>>
>>>I always thought the CCR song went: 'There's a bathroom on the right'
>>>Larry Nittler
>When I was little I always used to think the lyrics to one song were
>"Jungle love, strawberry red, it's making me crazy"
>You know the song
Then there's Elton John's famous "Lucy in the Sky with Linus." I
could never figure out why Charlie Brown wasn't mentioned.
The opinions expressed above are mine (but I'm willing to share.)
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Mr. S.J. Wooding
Know You Well", which should have been:
'..don't want to linger on the past..'
were (to him)
'..don't want the lick your underpants..'
Put a whole new perspective on the rest of the lyrics... ;o)
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Know You Well", which should have been:
'..don't want to linger on the past..'
were (to him)
'..don't want to lick your underpants..'
b...@rosie.uh.edu
that the Huey Lewis song "I Want a New Drug" went :
"I want a new truck."
Hey, he's a good Texas boy.
Brian
Univ. of Houston
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Jon Pardue
>A friend of mine once swore that one line of Howard Jones' "Like to Get to
>Know You Well", which should have been:
>
>'..don't want to linger on the past..'
>
>were (to him)
>
>
Speaking of pants, I've always heard that line in The Pretenders'
"Middle of the Road" as:
"I'm standing in the the middle of life with my pants behind me."
Hmmmm. Chrissie "Hind"?
- Jon
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>
>Speaking of pants, I've always heard that line in The Pretenders'
>"Middle of the Road" as:
>
> "I'm standing in the the middle of life with my pants behind me."
>
>Hmmmm. Chrissie "Hind"?
>
>- Jon
The one I remember is the song "Blinded by the Light" (how could anyone
forget this one?) It sounded like he said:
"Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a douche,
another rubber in the night!"
What he really said:
"Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a 'deuce',
another 'runner' in the night!"
Jeff
Thomas Martin
Mama never told me we'd have to eat black peas. -
(Mama never told me there'd be days like these. - John Lennon)
Feed the whales... let them know it's Christmas time!
(Feed the world... From "We are World" - various)
I thought they were pretty funny - but you get used to it coming from a guy
that though bialys are pronounced "Bye-lies".
Charlie Figura
> Feed the whales... let them know it's Christmas time!
>(Feed the world... From "We are World" - various)
Hm. Actually, the line you quoted is *not* 'We are the World'.
'We are the World' was more or less an American (USA) consortsium
of artists. I don't remember the title of the one you 'quote',
just that I seem to recall that it was a more European group
of artists (same idea as 'We are the World') and it was released
a bit earlier than 'We are the World'. Few months, mebbe.
And I like it *more* than WarW.
Anybody remember the exact title?
Mario D'Alessio
>>You know the song
>Then there's Elton John's famous "Lucy in the Sky with Linus." I
>could never figure out why Charlie Brown wasn't mentioned.
I thought the chorus to "Venus" (in the remake by that woman
group) was
"I'm your fetus, I'm your fire, it's your desire..."
Mario
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My wife used to sing the song "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb... SHIVER!
however she thought the chorus went
"shut up and dance..."
ELAINE M. KALPIN
There's an old tune by the Bee Gees (hated it, hated them) called "How Deep is
Your Love" where they sing, "...and you come to me on a summer breeze..."
I was kinda young when it first came out and always thought they were singing,
"...and you come to me on a submarine..." Ahhh, *youth*
Cheers!
Elaine M. Kalpin
Dept. of Psychology
Lehigh University
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Sarah Plummer
once, and my brother was listening to the radio, and there was the song
"None but a woman" on the radio, and my parents, every time they heard
the song on the car trip thought it was called "Bald headed Woman." She
still tells it at family gatherings. 8)
One of my favorite stories.
Sarah
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. Sarah Plummer splu...@abacus.bates.edu .
. Duct Tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, .
. and it holds the universe together. The only difference is that .
. "May The Force be with you" sounds a lot nicer than "May you be .
. covered in duct tape." .
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Scott Smader
(maybe off Minute by Minute), you might remember the song, "Feelin'
Down Farther." As preposterous as it reads here, if you listen to
the recording with this in mind, I'm sure you'll agree that the
chorus should be "Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Love. <repeat>"
Scott Smader - Private opinions made public upon request.
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Mike Connelly
>Here we go all the way back to the days of disco......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
More Disco:
Bee Gee's "More Than A Woman" --> "Bald Headed Woman"
(H'm, this predated Sinead O Connor by at least 10 years)
Also, there was the song "The One That I Want" from Grease which I always
thought began:
"I've got shoes, they're multiplyin'..."
Mike Connelly ixoye | But the real problem with this man
Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ | Is he says he can't when he can
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j...@ho09.eng.ua.edu
have SWORN part of the chorus was:
Billie Jean is not my mother (instead of 'lover')
She's just a girl who claims that
I am the one.....
The cherished of my son..... (instead of 'the kid is not my son')
Ted (RedTed) Kilsdonk
Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light
I always wondered what Jose was doing in Baltimore and why
Francis Scott Key couldn't just look over the gunwhale himself.
also,
When I was drinking regularly I was _convinced_ that ZZ Top's
song "Sharp Dressed Man" was actually "Shot glass man".
RedTed - who also has trouble believing that the tune to which
the Star Spangled Banner was set was actually a popular air of
the time...it is impossible to sing it properly.
Internet: ej...@Virginia.EDU | History does not repeat itself,
BITNET: ejk4e@VIRGINIA | historians repeat each other.
P.H.Hicks
was singing along to the line that sounds *exactly* like:
"Beezlebub had the devil for a sideboard"
It also makes more sense than the rest of the song :-)
cheers,
-Phil.
Chris Wuestefeld -- AGS Consultant
Now I can do it to you.
He was singing "And the guido/
Will rise,/
Yes the guido,/
the guido wil rise..."
I can no longer make out the real lyrics. Try it.
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David Owen
ask anyone who seemed vaguely knowledgable of Far-eastern matters what a
"manshiro" was.
Hugh actually sings "Through my mind she runs"...
Dave.
J.J.Clyde
I *also* have a friend who....
thought that the Sound of Music(?) song went like:
"So long, farewell, my feet are saying goodbye...."
In her defense, she is a blonde *and* an aggie.
--J.J.
wie...@pa881a.inland.com
A friend of mine always thought that AC/DC was screaming:
"I'm f**king blind!"
from their famous song BACK IN BLACK. Go figure....
One of my favorites, however, is from Michael Jackson's BILLIE JEAN:
"but the CHAIR is not my son."
Here's some other interpretations I've had (or heard from others):
Reverend Blue-Jeans ("Forever in Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond)
Hit the Bee Square ("Hip to be Square by Huey" Lewis & The News)
Bret D. Wiersbe
Tony
"Twenty four twenty four hours ago, I wanna be sedated"
was
"Toilet Bowl Toilet Bowl out of control, it needs to be sedated"
Oh well, with the Ramone's, it's understandable.
-jay-
Daniel B Case
>RedTed - who also has trouble believing that the tune to which
>the Star Spangled Banner was set was actually a popular air of
>the time...it is impossible to sing it properly.
That's the rub. It was a drinking song. Now do you understand?
"There's no BODY-CHECKING in golf!!!"-Charlie Brown, to Lucy.
V140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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State University of New York at Buffalo GEnie:DCASE.10
Rudeboy
: A friend of mine always thought that AC/DC was screaming:
: "I'm f**king blind!"
: from their famous song BACK IN BLACK. Go figure....
Speaking of AC/DC, how about the last song on BACK IN BLACK, called
"Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution," whose true lyrics I've yet
to decipher. Here's what the first line (after the spoken intro)
sounds like to me:
"Help me, there's a 'possum playing on my guitar."
My friends and I came to refer to this song in our weekly poker
game simply as "The 'Possum Song."
Humbly yours,
Charlie
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THOMAS EDWIN SCHMIDLIN
>The only thing that makes hearing Queen's bloody awful "Bohemian Rhapsody"
>was singing along to the line that sounds *exactly* like:
>
> "Beezlebub had the devil for a sideboard"
I could be wrong but I thought that line was:
"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me...for meeeeeeeeeeeee
>
>It also makes more sense than the rest of the song :-)
>
> cheers,
> -Phil.
>
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C. Duff
> The one I remember is the song "Blinded by the Light" (how could anyone
> forget this one?) It sounded like he said:
>
> "Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a douche,
> another rubber in the night!"
>
> What he really said:
>
> "Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a 'deuce',
> another 'runner' in the night!"
Oh, wow. I always thought he was saying:
"Ya know the roamer in the night."
Live and learn.
Carolyn
Tsiel Ohayon
As we are French he did not speak a word of english at the age of 7 or 8,
but he had fallen in love with the song "Eye of Tiger", one of the Rocky
theme songs.
It went something like this:
Wising up, back on the tweewee
To matate what's eh my eh oti.
Smatili eh wop et smatiloua
On top ov da smatiloua
and it continued, but you get the picture. 10 years later, although he is
now a fluent English speaker, he remebers this and can still sing it that
way.
Nat King Cole was also quite good in killing French or Spanish words when
he sang in those languages. Since he did not have a clue what he singin about.
Tsiel
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J GASKELL
>Hm. Actually, the line you quoted is *not* 'We are the World'.
>'We are the World' was more or less an American (USA) consortsium
>of artists. I don't remember the title of the one you 'quote',
>just that I seem to recall that it was a more European group
>of artists (same idea as 'We are the World') and it was released
>a bit earlier than 'We are the World'. Few months, mebbe.
>And I like it *more* than WarW.
>
>Anybody remember the exact title?
>
The song was called `Do they know it's Christmas?' and was
recorded by a group of British artists that (Sir) Bob Geldof ggot
together. Bob Geldof had the idea and he and Midge Ure from Ultravox
wrote the song. Both of them then helped to organise the American
version (We are the World), after the British one was already a hit. Of
course, Bob Geldof then went on to organise Live Aid, etc.
BTW, I must agree that `Do they know...' is better than `We are
the World', but then British music on the whole is far better than
American anyway. (Just an opinion. It is really not worth flaming me
for it.)
JAG
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Phineas Narco
>
> One interesting line I was fooled on was in Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".
> I thought that Ozzie was singing:
>
>
> "I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could, but it's too late."
>
>
>
>
> But it was really:
>
>
>
> "I tell you to end your life, I wish I could, but it's too late."
>
>
> OUCH! :)
Actually, Sam Kinison was on The Comedy Channel's show COMICS ONLY
(before he died, obviously) and said that he met Osbourne, and that
Osbourne told him that people understood him and said that he didn't
say "End your life" but rather had send "Enjoy life". He also mentioned
that Osbourne had for a long time thought Hendrix was saying "'Scuse
me while I kiss this guy" on PURPLE HAZE. Actually, it does sound
like this if you listen to PURPLE HAZE with this in mind.
Also, there is a 70's song the name of which eludes me for the
moment. In the bridge of this song there is a female voice whispering
very softly the words, "Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry" over
and over. But it also sounds like she's saying, "Requesting quiet.
Requesting quiet."
--Phineas narco
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Phineas Narco
on) from their song EMINENCE FRONT sounds like they're saying
"Have a little spud... Have a little spud..."
--Phineas Narco
Phineas Narco
> One of my favorites, however, is from Michael Jackson's BILLIE JEAN:
>
> "but the CHAIR is not my son."
>
This was a question in viewer mail on LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
a few years back. Dave played the chorus of BILLIE JEAN to see if
it sounded like chair, but they had edited another man's voice saying
'chair' loudly at the appropriate moment in the clip
Elisabeth Riba
When I was about 4, I attended a preschool run by a convent. [I'm Jewish]
My mother still delights in telling people about the Xmas pageant,
when we sang Silent Night.
"...little George Jesus lay down in his bed..."
Then, there's this quote, that proves that humans aren't the only ones
who make these mistakes:
"No particularly demonic thoughts were going through his head. In
fact, he was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were."
--Good Omens, Gaiman & Pratchett
-Lis
C. Duff
> Also, there is a 70's song the name of which eludes me for the
>moment. In the bridge of this song there is a female voice whispering
>very softly the words, "Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry" over
>and over. But it also sounds like she's saying, "Requesting quiet.
>Requesting quiet."
The song is "I'm Not in Love" by 10CC.
Charles Severance (System Manager)
>In article <iT4Z6B...@spectrx.saigon.com> phi...@spectrx.saigon.com (Phinea
s Narco) writes:
>> Also, there is a 70's song the name of which eludes me for the
>>moment. In the bridge of this song there is a female voice whispering
>>very softly the words, "Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry" over
>>and over. But it also sounds like she's saying, "Requesting quiet.
>>Requesting quiet."
Really - Those words are "Big boys don't cry?" I was sure that they were
"Requesting quiet". The things you learn on the net.
NAB...@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com
One of my friends thought that the chorus to The Who's "Eminence Front"
was
"living in the Bronx"
hilarious !
Alton B. Coalter
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Reid Kneeland
>Here's what the first line (after the spoken intro)
>sounds like to me:
> "Help me, there's a 'possum playing on my guitar."
Along the same lines, Dave Barry has wondered (in print) just what
the first line of "Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys is. Paraphrased:
It sounds like "Well since you put me down, there've been owls puking
in my bed", but that can't be it. I can imagine owls vomiting in the
beds of some '60s groups, such as the Stones, but not the Beach Boys.
(Apologies if someone posted this already; I missed part of this thread.)
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Daniel B Case
> Also, there is a 70's song the name of which eludes me for the
>moment. In the bridge of this song there is a female voice whispering
>very softly the words, "Big boys don't cry. Big boys don't cry" over
>and over. But it also sounds like she's saying, "Requesting quiet.
>Requesting quiet."
"I'm Not In Love" by 10 cc. I thought that it was saying "Be poised and quiet"
Andrew Schiano
as "there'a a bathroom on the right!"
THOMAS EDWIN SCHMIDLIN
>In article <1993Jun29.1...@julian.uwo.ca> j...@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Jeffrey V
erhagen) writes:
>> The one I remember is the song "Blinded by the Light" (how could anyone
>> forget this one?) It sounded like he said:
>>
>> "Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a douche,
>> another rubber in the night!"
>>
>> What he really said:
>>
>> "Blinded by the light; wrapped up like a 'deuce',
>> another 'runner' in the night!"
Actually I think the line is:
"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce...
A reference to the car, like the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe".
>
>Oh, wow. I always thought he was saying:
> "Ya know the roamer in the night."
>
>Live and learn.
>
>Carolyn
>
Mike Janeczko
Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA: "... I'm a long dong daddy in the USA"
I never knew the real line, so this may be the actual one, NAH!!! :-)
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Dabe Dabe Murphy
>The only thing that makes hearing Queen's bloody awful "Bohemian Rhapsody"
>was singing along to the line that sounds *exactly* like:
>
> "Beezlebub had the devil for a sideboard"
as I heard it:
"Pre-algebra was a devil of a time for me..."
Others (Some probably repeated already, but... oh well)
(Credits should go to other people, but I don't remember who said what :-) )
"S'cuse me while I kiss the sky" - "Purple Haze" - Jimi Hendrix
"S'cuse me while I kiss this guy"
"Big ol' jet airliner" - "Jet Airliner" - Steve Miller Band
"Bingo Jed had a light on"
"The girl with kaleidoscope eyes" - "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - The
"The girl with Colidis goes by" Beatles
"Fire all of your guns at once and..." - "Born To Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
"Buy all of your guns at wholesale..."
"I'm as helpless as a kitten in a tree" - "Misty" - ???????????
"I'm as helpless as a chicken in a tree" (Ray Stevens's version)
That's all I can think of at the moment ... I'm sure I've heard a WHOLE
lot of other songs wrong, but......
Dabe
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