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I still maintain it makes more sense that way.
Never could figure out how they could play that song on a family-friendly radio station.
instead of kiss the sky!
My one of my fave websites is kissthisguy.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BApmRF7U09E
The other day, i was singing along with it and my wife looked at me and said, "Hey idiot, how does a 'one winged dove' fly?"
Uhhh... color me embarrassed.
(Not only for screwing up the lyric, but for singing along with Stevie Nicks where people could hear me.)
No need for embarrassment, Medic 7...
...unless you imitated the gossamer-winged angel twirl she does, too...
"the battle flags are flown at the feet of a garden gnome"! (Should be "god unknown".
It was another John Denver one.
And "My eyes of Georgia." I acutally like that way better ...
I always thought the words to Blinded by the Light were "wrapped up like a douchon to the roamer in the night". Never knew what a "douchon" was, but I thought everyone else did.
Old Squid.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hundred children
And a crop in the field
Mamaw said, "No wonder Lucille left him!"
Heard someone say to the Chili Peppers Give it Away "Bob Marley, rollin' in a bucket."
It's supposed to be "Bob Marley, poet and a prophet."
haaaaaaaaahahahhaa!!
From my childhood: "In the Garden DaVito, honey". I never understood what was with that guy DaVito's garden.
Jim
Reverend Blue Jeans
alas it was...
Forever in Blue Jeans
I guess I just hoped the pastor at church was going to show up Sunday in jeans :o)
I never could figure out what the song was supposed to be about- Marzidotes and dozidotes and little lamzidizies".
I was a confused child. :D
what? I don't know what a jigger is...this was well before I knew what the condiments for tequila was. I still what to sing it this way every time. If you ask for salt in my house it's the saw jigger!!
"Fleas on a Dog"
Dude, for years I thought that word was fetus, so don't feel bad. At least your version kinda makes sense (not that the song itself does, but hey).
I thought he was volunteering for acid rain research or something.
"I don't understand what makes a man...it's another man, help me understand."
Of course, I heard the song YEARS LATER and realized he's singing:
"I don't understand what makes a man HIT another man, help me understand."
A very "DUH!" moment, let me tell ya!
"Ooops I spit up,
into my cereal bowl"
I thought it was the stoopidest song I'd ever heard!
Jim
Jim
In my family even though we know that Journey is singing "I come to you with open arms", either my mother, or (more likely) my little sister heard it as "I come to you with broken arms". Which sounded rather painful, and made one wonder what he'd been up to.
"Secret Asian Man." Seriously, how can you be secretly asian? She is pre-med. Be afraid, very afraid.
"And Irraaannn's....Iran's so far awwwaaaaayyyyy...."
The "Iran's all night and day" lyric really confused me for a loooooong time!
Appropriate for this blog, don't you think?
No, I'm old enough that I used to have a kaleidoscope. But I've read the above quote several places and rolled on the floor when I did.
The real lyrics are
"... the girl with kaleidoscope eyes ..."
More recently, I've overheard my little brother singing along to Smash Mouth's "Allstar": "She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an ELF on her forehead".
Also, "Ain't no woman like the One-eyed Gott."
Oh yeah---my Mom thought that the lyrics to the Stylistics' "You're My Everything" was "You're My Pizza Pie"...go figure..
On the next chorus I heard it right. It still gave me chills, but in a different way. I knew/know some of those guys.
D. Scruggs
My famous one is "Money for nothing and the checks are free" --Dire Straights
Money for nothing and the chicks for free...
What they sang: "..I'm not talkin bout movin in..."
What I heard: "...I'm not talkin bout the linen..."
For YEARS I wondered what the hell laundry had to do with the song. Thank god got Google...
"She's my can of Raid"! After MONTHS of trying to figure out why the guy was equating his girl to a can of bug spray, or what it had to do with the rest of the song, I realized that the lyrics actually said "She's my kind of rain".
I always wondered how they got that past the censors.
Yes, I know. I'm not quite right in the head.
Don't go out tonight-
It's bound to take your life.
There's a bathroom on the right.
Maybe he was concerned about my bladder health?
And it was recently a friend of mine told me that for the longest time he thought that Led Zeppelin was anti-semetic. Really! Listen to the end of Stairway to Heaven:
"And if you listen very hard
The Jew will bother you a lot."
And I'll take my brother's warbled version of "Simian Angel" over "Send Me An Angel".
When I grow up
I wanna see the world
drive nice cars
I wanna have boobies
Actual word is 'groupies', but until I looked it up, I was a little disturbed by that.
When I was a teenager, I used to sing along with Nirvana's "Come as You Are:" "And I SMELL and I don't have a GOD..."
"You had to be a big shot, ninja
All your friends were so knocked out"
Well, it kinda made sense :)
For years and years I heard Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U as
“I went to the doctor n’guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl you better try to have fall in love
No matter what you do”
and not
"He said girl you better try to have fun
No matter what you do”
No idea how I turned a one syllable three letter word into three one syllable words. But I always thought it was awesome that it was awkward and didn't really fit in there because it shows how she’s breaking down and can’t get a clear sentence out, which all of us do sometimes when we are very emotional and or stressed out. Which to me, fits what is going on here in the song. Except that I was wrong, so umm...yeah. Nevermind.
'I feel the light betray me'
Morphed into:
'I feel like I'm Dick Cheney!'
Three of us heard it that way and we were ALL staring at each other in confusion. 'He feels like our Vice President?' (this was back pre-Zero days).
Guess it was a Sixth Dimension?
(never shoulda made her listen to oldies.)
For those younger than dirt, It's the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
In her defense, she was only 9 at the time!
Lil' Nana
My friend always though Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now" was:
Hold me now...oh, oh, wash my car.
[Hold Me Now, Warm My Heart]
There's plenty of songs now-a-days that I just shake my head and think...what I'm hearing CAN'T be what they are singing, can it?
Black Betty's child went feral and had to be shot; why else would anyone Bam a Lamb? This, obviously, made Black Betty a sheep.
Like I said, perfectly logical.
And just so you know that this is not a new phenomenon, mom used to sing "O spee spees and barley grow" (Should be "Oats, Peas, Beans, and barley...") and that was in the twenties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
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(Jamabalai, crawfish pie, file gumbo.), and my brother thought it was "There's Mr. Abby, the tower car man" in England Swings.
And who can forget the moving Christmas Caro, "Oh, lit up town I bet me ham", or the hymn, "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear"?
The kids in chapel at my Episcopal school sang "Amazing Grapes" ... with the line "that saved a wrench like me"
I've got shoes,
their both a flyin'
and I'm losing control
unfortunately I told this to my friends when I was a pre-teen, and never lived it down.
And to anonymous, I also mishear the England Dan & John Ford Coley song "I'm not talking about the linen"
Greetings from Asbury Park)
And I sometimes think Mr. Springsteen has left a few reality connections behind...