Mis-interpreted lyrics....

[Doug M.]

"A girl with Colitis goes by ..."

Should be "A girl with kaleidoscope eyes ..."

 

[oldfart64]

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCvNj1F3-w

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"

of course my favorite is : There is a bathroom on the right. (there is a bad moon on the rise).

 

[LVSteve]

The Police gave us a couple. "Message in a Bottle" became "Massaging the Beetle" to some with poor hearing.

"So Lonely" sounded just like "Sue Lawley", a UK TV personality of the period.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Bad. Moon Rising- very special song to me.
Never got confused with the words.
But then again there is Jr. Brown-
Too many nights in a roadhouse,
Too much wine, women and song,
Too many nights in a roadhouse,
(Down to last line)
Blah, blah, blah
Ok- I just looked it up. I have heard that song a 100 times, my best guess wasn't even close.
In fact, I like my best guess better than Jr.'s line.
See if you can get it from the video.
I couldn't! And I have heard him sing it in person.
[ame]Http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IucLZUnRzs[/ame]

 

[eveled]

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

Dont' forget "Who'll stop Loraine"

 

[eveled]

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.

I caught a friend of mine singing that same song as "Bingo jet had a light on"

 

[Road Rat]

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!

So, you never ran a trot line?

 

[Stevens]

How about what I thought for years was "In a Garden of Eden"

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4[/ame]

never one of my favorites anyway!

Steve W

 

[Lt JL]

I have a cousin who has been somewhat hard of hearing since birth. It's been repaired now, but some of Cousin Stevie's best were:
STAND BESIDE HER, AND GUIDE HER, THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH THE LIGHT FROM A BULB.

AND THE EVER POPULAR "jESUS IS SEEKING A HUMBLE HEART" came out as

JESUS IS SNEAKING THROUGH HUMBOLDT PARK.

and then there was that famous Beach Boys song "Healthy Water". Took us all awhile to figure out it was "Help me, Rhonda".

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Agreed. My examples are pedestrian misunderstanding. Harry Bellafonte's "Mama, Look a Boo-Boo" created a few for me in grade school (that I have still been known to deliberately sing incorrectly in the shower) when a friend's older sister played it - none of which would be appreciated by this forum's kind hosts.

 

[KLiK]

So, you never ran a trot line?

I have but always found it easier to grab a pole and hit my favorite spots. Seemed like we mostly caught turtles with trotlines.

 

[V1 Rotate]

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"

I was going to mention "Secret Asian Man", which has stood the test of time for several decades. I corrected my daughter, born 1993, on this song and she laughed when I said I made the same mistake in the late sixties.

How about Creedence's "Stuck in old Lodi" as "Stuck in an old dive"? Bill S

 

[Doug M.]

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

*
I recall reading somewhere a few years back that after John Fogerty learned of this mistake, he sang it that way on occasion.

 

[DoubleAdobe]

I was confused as a kid by Roy Orbison's classic "Tony the Lonely"

 

[rwsmith]

What did he say?

Swede Hajika, socka moocha round the bend, yeah


Sweet Hitchhiker by CCR


‘Saving his life from this warm sausage tea’. came from Queen's

"Spare him his life from this monstrosity."

Purple Haze

"'scuse me while I kiss this guy"


"Kickin' your cat all over the place."

We Will Rock You, it's

"Kickin' your can all over the place."

 

[RobertJ.]

No one has mentioned the song who's ACTUAL lyrics are, "revved up like a deuce"!

Yep, we all know that one!

 

[Arik]

"This is the dawning of the Age of Asparugus, Asparugus"

"Money for nothin' and chips for free"

"Let's pee in the corner, Let's pee in the spotlight."

"
Like a virgin, touched for the 31st time"

 

[Johnny_w]

Grateful Dead The music never stopped lyrics are:

There's a band out on the highway
They're high steppin' into town
It's a rainbow full of sound
It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns

A friend of mine swore the last line was:
The fireworks can not appease the clowns. I had to ask, why are the clowns so angry? Why would fireworks appease them?

 

[Farmer17]

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

He also had the song "The girl with colitus goes by"

 

[rwsmith]

Take the back right turn

Take the back right turn right turn right turn


'Paperback writer, writer, writer"