Misheard song lyrics

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Highbulp Billy

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Ok, here\'s one of those random office conversations that leads to forum question type of thing...

How many of you have (or know a good story about someone who has) misheard song lyrics with near comical results?

Some examples form me...

The Keane song that goes \"oh crystal ball, crystal ball\" sounded like \"oh Chris de Burgh, Chris de Burgh\"
The Automatic\'s \"Monster\" had me singing along \"What\'s that coming over the hill? Is it a bus stop, is it a bus stop?\"


Others in the office include Rod Stewart singing \"The first car was a D reg\", the Beatles classic \"Ticket to Rye\" and the obligatory misinterpretations in Madonna\'s \"Like a Virgin\".

So, anyone got any good ones...?
 
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War Griffon

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Eurythmics Annie Lennox sings a lyric \"over grown with glee\"

However when you listen to it it always sounds like she is singing \"over grown with fleas\"
lollollollol
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
Well in Sweden and when you are a kid the mishearings are so much more substantional... and when memory fails it all gets much worse.

My brothers version of harvester of sorrows is a classic:

\"Panter of Shadows\"

Another Metallica classic is the Unforgiven where if you are Swedish the first \"What I felt...\" sounds exactly like the Swedish artist Per Gessle (part of Roxette) singing \"några föds\" (some are born). Once you start thinking of it.. you almost can\'t properly enjoy the song anymore! There you go you (other) Swedish bastards!

I can\'t remember any recent mishearing though.. even though they are common.
 
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Naukhel

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There\'s the old stand-by\'s...

Jimi Hendrix...

\"\'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy...\" (Kiss the sky is correct)

Golden Earring...

\"Blinded by the light. Wrapped up in a douche...\" (racked up like a deuce is correct)

The Beatles...

\"Hey, dude...\" (Hey Jude is correct)

Smashing Pumpkins...

\"Despite all my rage, I will lock all my brats in a cage.\" My mother\'s version...
(Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage is correct)
 
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Rodnik

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Ticket to Rye
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Yea...but Ticket to Rye wasn\'t really \"misheard\", was it? I thought it was originally \"Rye\" and then changed to \"Ride\"....or at least that\'s one story that floats around....

The idea supposedly was originally the song was about a town called \"Rye\" and then changed to \"Ride\" for marketing purposes.

I thought on \"The Beatles 1\" it\'s listed as \"Ticket to Ride\"....as opposed to \"Ticket to Rye\"....

But, I could be completely wrong....it\'s been known to happen.
 
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squidders

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Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott does sound very much like she\'s drumming up business for an ice cream shop and shouting \"get your free cone\".

Then there\'s the classic Nirvana smells like teen spirit, the original is:

With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us

Revised edition:

Here we are now Mrs Taylor
Here we are now
in to DayNurse
I\'ve got two pigs in containers
Here we are now
in to DayNurse
 
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Highbulp Billy

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Originally posted by Roger Bunting
Was that deliberate though, Billy? I can\'t imagine getting those two mixed up.
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Listen to Aerosmith screaming it out - it\'s not that clear. Those guys need elocution lessons if they\'re going to be international stars ;)
 
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Roger Bunting

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Well, I guess the problem for me is that knowing the song\'s title, and then hearing the bit that sounds like that title, I can\'t quite imagine it another way.

I used to think Freddy Mercury was singing \"let them dedicate, she said, just like Marie Antionette\", when, of course it\'s \"let them eat cake\". Took me a while to cotton on to that, even though I knew the infamous (and most likely incorrect) quote about Marie Antoinette.
 
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DaN

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vincegamer

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DaN, if that\'s the sound quality you normally have I\'m surprised you ever get any lyrics right.

My biggie has always been Crosby, Stills and Nash, Southern Cross:
\"I have been arouuound the world; looking for that one-eyed girl.\"

(reall lyrics - \"looking for that woman girl\")
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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Originally posted by Rodnik
Ticket to Rye
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Yea...but Ticket to Rye wasn\'t really \"misheard\", was it? I thought it was originally \"Rye\" and then changed to \"Ride\"....or at least that\'s one story that floats around....

The idea supposedly was originally the song was about a town called \"Rye\" and then changed to \"Ride\" for marketing purposes.
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Rye -> ergot -> fungal alkaloid -> drugs... The song is clearly about drugs, duh. Just like every other Beatles song ever written.
 
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hubbabubba

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Desmond Decker, The Isrealites

No one else remember the old memorex cassette ads.

Everybody together now.....

\'Ohhhhhh, Ohhhhhhh, me ears are alight\'

Here is a link, but you have to fast forward to the second song.
 
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Undave

Flockwit
Don\'t forget the old classic from Bohemian Rhapsody: \"Beelzebub has a devil in his sideboard\"

My ex girlfriends little sister used to sing this song by a girl band called Republica I think it was which had the lyric \"standing on the rooftops\" but she sang \"standing in the fruit shop\"......
 
wiccanpony

wiccanpony

Official Freak Bar Witch
a classic

Blinded by the Light

*blinded by the light
*revved up like a deuce,


always sounded like “wrapped up like a douche”:eek::eek::eek:

edit.... ever mind Naukhel beat me to it...
 
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