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12-07-2001, 09:04 PM
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I don't know about you guys and gals but I have sung many a tune to the wrong lyrics since way back when. I mean, you really don't know it at the time but then the inevitable happens ... someone hears you. 
Here's a few from when I was younger to get you all going but, believe me, there's more where they came from.  Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" Parents only love you when they're playing
err, should have been: Players only love you when they're playing
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And I know I can't be alone on this one ... Manfred Mann's Earth Band's, "Blinded By The Light" Wrapped up like a douche another roller in the night
uhm, should have been: Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the night
Okay, that's all I will embarass myself with for now ... next? 
Shannon
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12-07-2001, 09:13 PM
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Ummm... I am well known for my misheard lyrics. For years I thought the song went
"I like to dream, yeah. Right between my satin sheets."
Um, I guess those satin sheets were really a "sound machine". Oh well. |
12-07-2001, 11:12 PM
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I've been howling out solo
...first line in Miss You for me untill I've seen the written lyrics:
I've been holding out so long
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12-08-2001, 09:21 AM
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I assume you all have now seen one of the funniest web sites (after this one) on the web, KissThisGuy.com, named for an unfortunate hearing of one of Jimi's more intelligible lyrics. |
12-08-2001, 10:48 AM
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Not mine, originally, but I always laugh when I hear:
'The girl with colitis goes by'... |
12-08-2001, 11:58 AM
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Do me a favor? Give the correct lyrics and the source please -- otherwise chances are I won't get the joke
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12-08-2001, 12:05 PM
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At the top of my lungs, I'd sing along to the Steve Miller Band's "Chug-A-Lug"...only when a local radio station did a two week "let's play everything in our library in alpha-order" did I realize it was actually "Jungle Love".
Sheesh.
And yes, Shannon, I sang the douche lyrics to Manfred Mann too!
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12-08-2001, 12:14 PM
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My classic was:
"I had a dream there were clowns in my coffee,
clowns in my coffee.
And, you're so vain..."
Now that's a scary dream!
Sara
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12-08-2001, 02:26 PM
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And another: The Beatles "Back in the U.S.S.R" Holy disco microphone
should have been: Honey disconnect the phone
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12-08-2001, 02:38 PM
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My college roommate's bother sang to Culture Club's Karma Chamelian :
Become, cum-a, cum-a, comedian
which was, of course,
Karma, karma, karma chamelian
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12-08-2001, 02:43 PM
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I had to laugh at Mrs. Grouch's expense when she misheard this lyric from Shelby Lynne's latest album:
Your love's a kitty cat
Should have been:
Your love's the killin' kind |
12-08-2001, 08:59 PM
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Okay, I confess, I really butcher lyrics.
There was a Billy Ocean tune some years back I was sure was:
Get out of my dreams and into my heart...
But I heartbreakingly found out that he sings:
Get out of my dreams and into my car...
Then, while singing in a band in my college years, I used to mumble a line in a Donna Summer song :
mmmmhhmmmmmhmmm in the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bill
And she's lookin' really pretty
She's waitin' for that dollar bill
She works hard for the money
I still don't know the correct words...
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12-09-2001, 11:49 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by ms_n
Okay, I confess, I really butcher lyrics.
There was a Billy Ocean tune some years back I was sure was:
Get out of my dreams and into my heart...
But I heartbreakingly found out that he sings:
Get out of my dreams and into my car...
Then, while singing in a band in my college years, I used to mumble a line in a Donna Summer song :
mmmmhhmmmmmhmmm in the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bill
And she's lookin' really pretty
She's waitin' for that dollar bill
She works hard for the money
I still don't know the correct words... |
The album cut of the Billy Ocean song opens with appropriate car songs, so I never had a problem with that one. I can't find the lyrics for Donna Summer. :| |
12-09-2001, 11:56 AM
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This isn't a rock song, but it involves my brother, which is even better. 
Our family's favourite story about him was of when he was five. He loved to sing in church, and one morning, surprised everyone a great deal by standing on the seat and belting out a rousing chorus of The Constipated Cross-eyed-Bear. My poor mother. (It is really 'The Consecrated Cross I Bear').
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12-09-2001, 12:17 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by ms_n
I used to mumble a line in a Donna Summer song :
mmmmhhmmmmmhmmm in the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bill
And she's lookin' really pretty
She's waitin' for that dollar bill
She works hard for the money
I still don't know the correct words... | Here ya go: Nine a.m. on the hour hand
and she's waiting for the bell
and she's looking real pretty
just wait for her clientele
Complete lyrics here |
12-09-2001, 12:23 PM
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Every time this subject comes up I think about Whoopi listening to The Rolling Stones sing Jumpin Jack Flash in the movie of the same name. She screams: Speak English Mick!
Yup. 
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12-09-2001, 12:36 PM
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That scene in Jumping Jack Flash makes the whole movie. I remember sitting with some pre-AOL friends who had just found how much money was in chat and OLM (on-line messages) as we drank beer and said, "People form relationships without ever meeting anyone - INSANE!"
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Okay, my turn for a bad lyric. I actually submitted this a couple of years ago to the Kiss This Guy site.
Annie's Song - John Denver
Correct lyrics are:
Let me drown in your laughter,
let me die in your arms
Kid Joubert lyrics:
Let me drown in your bathtub,
let me dry in your arms.
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12-09-2001, 09:06 PM
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Took me only two days to mishear the song, identify the singer and the title, find the lyrics and actually figure what line I misheard.
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Originally:
I pretend that you're already mine
Then my heart ain't breaking every time
In my ears:
I pretend the jewelry remind
I'm the Hare Krishna every time
Err, sorry, Shann, the best I could do.
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12-09-2001, 09:40 PM
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Thanks! Another site bookmarked! (Boy, I really butchered that one, didn't I? Ha!)
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12-09-2001, 09:46 PM
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Berlin....Sex I'm a....
Real lyrics in the chorus....
I'm a man - I'm a goddess
I'm a man - Well I'm a virgin
I'm a man - I'm a blue movie
Kimber's version....last line
I'm a man - I'm a bloomer bee?
(I was 12 or so at the time this was really popular)
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12-09-2001, 11:24 PM
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I blush to think that when "Country Roads" came out, with the words "West Virginia, Mountain Mama", I thought they were saying "Mountin' Mama...")
The song with the most double entendre lyrics is, I think, "Mama's got a squeezebox and Daddy never sleeps at night...."
"They go in and out and in and out and inandout and inandout and inandout and inandout, Late at night, when the music's right, Mama's got a squeezebox and Daddy never sleeps at night." |
12-09-2001, 11:34 PM
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My father in law, when he first heard "Ladies Room" by Kiss, thought they were singing....
We's fishing in the ladies room
instead of
Meet, Meet you in the ladies room
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12-09-2001, 11:40 PM
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My husband had me convinced that the country song "burry the shovel" by Clay Walker-- had a verse like this----"hang them tears cant be all there is" when it is really "pain and tears cant be all there is" . I would have that song stuck in my mind and go to work singing it. My coworkers that loved country thought I was crazy . !! ... Thanks mike. I dont know why I believed him . It sounded so stupid it had to be right. :o
Also Garth Brooks slurs his words alot.. sometimes it had to tell what he is saying. |
12-10-2001, 12:06 AM
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