Mis-interpreted lyrics....

[rwsmith]

Rather than drift off another thread I noted that people hear the strangest things in song lyrics. Do you have any examples?

My contribution was this:

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I've heard that he said, "Eyeing little girls with bashed in heads"

And in "Cross eyed Mary"

"She'd rather make it with electric trains"

 

[Snapping Twig]

How about bad lip reading?

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[BC38]

I saw a thing on TV once about Elton John's Rocketman.
The lyrics are
Rocketman - burnin' out his fuse up there alone....

I can't remember what some of the lyrics they showed people singing were exactly, but they were frigging HILARIOUS!

 

[Alpo]

I've always loved CCR.

Don't go out tonight
'Cause they're bound to take your life
There's a bathroom on the right

 

[cndrdk]

I saw a thing on TV once about Elton John's Rocketman.
The lyrics are
Rocketman - burnin' out his fuse up there alone....

I can't remember what some of the lyrics they showed people singing were exactly, but they were frigging HILARIOUS!

Isn't he the one that had a song out years ago that went "someone shaved, someone shaved, my wife tonight"

 

[ordy]

I've always loved CCR.

Don't go out tonight
'Cause they're bound to take your life
There's a bathroom on the right

Alpo beat me to it. Supposed to "bad moon on the rise".

 

[OLDSTER]

"LOUIE-LOUIE" by the Kingsmen

 

[Ga Johnny]

Jimi Hendricks...........

' scuse me while I kiss this guy

 

[Mickey D]

"Dirty deeds done with sheep"

Actual ~ Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap. AC/DC

 

[yaktamer]

Makes me think of the scene in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" where Geena Davis corrects Samuel L. Jackson when he's singing "i'd Really Love to See You Tonight."

I could never figure out what that line was supposed to be myself. "I'm not talking 'bout moving in," always sound to me like "I'm not talking 'bout millennium."

 

[Philadelphia Patriot]

I always sing the wrong lyrics to Elton John's Tiny Dancer...

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza!"

 

[Johnny_w]

Big old Jed and Lina
Don't carry me too far away
Big old Jed and Lina
'Cause it's here that I got to stay.

Turn the beat around
Something 'bout canasta
Turn the beat around

 

[dougb1946]

That old hymn, "Gladly, the cross eyed bear"

 

[rwsmith]

I don't understand ANYTHING....

"LOUIE-LOUIE" by the Kingsmen

I don't understand ANYTHING in 'Louis Louis' except "Yeah, we gotta go now".


Back in the "Jesus Christ, Superstar' days a friends dad thought the were singing, "Peas and rice, peas and rice".

 

[Chuck24]

Hark! Harold the angel sings.

 

[KLiK]

Hank Williams Jr - "we can skin a buck or run a truck line cause a country boy can survive!"

In my defense it is fitting!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Is Trotline a Southern term?
Do you boys up North have fishing lines which move out at a trot?
A few ago now, a local radio announcer buddy of mine was doing the sunrise news and music up in Peru, IN.
He's half asleep and just reading stuff.
Fishing report - they are catching - he pronounce it crapp-ies at some lake.
Apparently in that part of Indiana they say Crop - ee. Just like down South.
His local listeners, mostly dairymen with phones in the barns, called in to correct him.
I understand that those delightful and delicious fish are called ****-ies in some places.
The site won't let me use the word I need.
When those dairymen called my buddy, they were standing in what I am trying to say.

 

[glenwolde]

"There's a bathroom on the right"

"There's a bad moon on the rise"

 

[RobertJ.]

How about that Johnny Rivers song, "Secret Asian Man"?

I heard my wife singing along with the radio once, and that's how she was singing it. Then I realized she only did it to make me say, "Wait...what?"

Some of her other favorites to mis-sing were

"Stuck in a Riddle with You" and

"Send in the Clouds"

 

[yaktamer]

How about that Johnny Rivers song, "Secret Asian Man"?

When I was a kid I actually thought that was what it was. I envisioned somebody like Kato from "The Green Hornet."