Misheard Lyrics

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 11 Aug 2004, 19:07

Thought people here might get a laugh at some of these examples of misheard lyrics which appeared on a thread on a music forum I lurk on.
Anyone got anymore?

A mate of mine actually thought that Stiff Little Fingers "Alternative Ulster" was called "A Twenty Foot Lobster".

a lotta people think it's "there's a bathroom on the right" (from Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising")

My girlfriend always thought (thinks?) Neil Diamond has a song about a trendy vicar - Reverend Blue Jeans.

I wouldn't say Wor Lass is thick, but, in 'Bohemian Rhapsody', she always thought there was a line which said 'spare him his life for his Wall's sausagees'.

The ultimate though has to be The Israelites (as featured on the Maxell ad) from googling the closest I can get to a transcription is:-

Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
Sold out to every monk and beefhead
Oooooooh, me ears are alight!
Why find me kids, they buck up and a-leave me
Darling cheese head I was yards too greasy
Oooooooh! Me ears are alight!

The Police, Message In A Bottle - the line 'a year has passed since I wrote my note' sounds like 'a year has passed since I rubbed my

'.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Aug 2004, 22:59

I think in the Friends theme it sounds like "and when it hasn't been your day we'll come up, the reason you're here"

Named after the most famous misheard lyric - "scuse me while i kiss this guy" by Hendrix, there is a website of misheard lyrics at :

http://www.kissthisguy.com

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 11 Aug 2004, 23:47

When i was very very young, Radio One used to do twisted lyrics all the time (was it Gary thingy, or Steve Wright?). Some have never left my head. And the worst one (because once it's fixed in your head it NEVER leaves) was at the end of Careless Whisper, where someone decided the backing singers were in fact singing "The...banana, nana...the banana, nana....". Maddening.

scossie5 · Post by **scossie5** » 15 Aug 2004, 13:19

Macy Gray sounds like she sings: "I wear goggles when you are not here" ... and she probably does.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17 Aug 2004, 20:39

The memsahib and I were listening to "Young Gifted and Black" over tea, and I happened to remark that Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites" always sounds to me like he's singing "Me ears are alight".

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 17 Aug 2004, 21:23

It 1975 was some time before I discovered that Frankie Valli was NOT singing "My eyes are tortured" in the hit "My Eyes Adored You"

In my defence, it does fit the rest of the song!?.... Doesn't it?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 09 May 2005, 19:26

My daughter thinks the Queen classic is called "Bohemian Rap City"

Not so much misheard lyrics as a modern interpretation

Good to read this old thread again too

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 09 May 2005, 22:45

I used to think Elton John sang............ "I had a dog called Sheppy and a place of my own" in Crocodile rock

I had a dog called Shep at the time and thought the song was great because of the lyrics. It was years later that I found out my mistake

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 10 May 2005, 11:29

I always thought Snoop Doggy Dogg was singing "Hold your hands in the the motherf uckin air and wave the motherf uckers like you just don't care"

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 11 May 2005, 00:25

Porty wrote:I always thought Snoop Doggy Dogg was singing "Hold your hands in the the motherf uckin air and wave the motherf uckers like you just don't care"

Funny. That's what I thought he sang too.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 May 2005, 13:28

So did I but apparently there is another motherf.... before "Hands"

Zargonian · Post by **Zargonian** » 18 May 2005, 09:05

Some others:

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts : "I love sausage rolls".
AC/DC : "Sausage Rolls Aint Noise Pollution"
AC/DC : "It's a long way to the top, if you want a sausage roll"
....there must be more...

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 18 May 2005, 14:17

Zargonian - do you have sausages for ears!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 18 May 2005, 14:35

Pal of Porty wrote:Zargonian - do you have sausages for ears!

Christ, I sense a new Joe Findlay product line being launched:

Sausage ears
Sliced Sausage nipples
Black pudding stools
Tongue eyelashes

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 18 May 2005, 14:36

"Zargoney the Lonley" by Roy Orbitson

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2008, 20:40

An article in G" of the Guardian today re lyrics which included misheard lyrics; the usual suspects were there and a new to me which made me laugh til I cried.....

"It was an aural fumbling that eventually led to the website kissthisguy.com, a repository for all those lyrical confusions. One contributor to the site offers that he thought the chorus to Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love ran "Might as well face it, you're a dick in a glove."

"I thought it was a song about Michael Jackson," he explains."

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 03 Aug 2008, 20:31

When I was about 10 years old I was at my grandfather's 70 birthday party and later that night I said to my Mum I liked that "Old mans eye" song. She couldn't think what song I was talking about so asked me to hum it, so I did and she said no you dafty it's called "Auld Lang Syne"

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 05 Aug 2008, 23:04

That one on the bread advert
by Lucky Jim I believe
You're lovely to me...
anyway I kept thinking the eyes were Deacon Blue not deep and blue

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Aug 2008, 13:56

I kept hearing 'Forever in Blue Jeans' as 'The reverand blue jeans.

A friend of ours though Armageddon it was @Am I gettin'it?'

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 19 Aug 2008, 21:54

Here's a double whammy!!

1: "I used to drive while she used to rock and roll" X

2. "I used to jive while she used to rock and roll" X

3. "I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll"

Stray NO.666 · Post by **Stray NO.666** » 20 Aug 2008, 17:50

SoupDragon wrote:That one on the bread advert
by Lucky Jim I believe
You're lovely to me...
anyway I kept thinking the eyes were Deacon Blue not deep and blue

yeh me 2

Talk Porty ~ Portobello

Misheard Lyrics

Misheard Lyrics

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