Lyrics...what I Thought they said.

The "worst lyrics" thread got me thinking about how people hear different things listening to the same song, especially on old AM station only car radios. The classic is Jimi singing 'Scues me while I kiss this guy." I remember a drunk in my back seat singing "big no jet O line-O" (Big ol' jet Airliner) Anyone...anyone?

For years I thought Sting was singing a song about Rock Salmon

This should be fun

Here are 1,000's of them

I always thought this was the line from Benny & the Jets:

'She's got electric boobs, her Mom has two, y'know I read it in a magazine......"

My brother-in-law was in highschool, in P.E., in right field doing absolutely nothing one day when the guy playing centerfield began complaining about how "gay" Elton John's songs were. He couldn't care less if Elton was gay so long as he didn't sing about it in all kinds of songs. The example he used was, Your Song.

?!?

My bro asked him, "What part of, Your Song has 'gay' lyrics??"

They guy's reply? "Near the end when he says, '...Those are the sweetest guys.. I've ever seen."

Moron!

:D

Isn't the famous line from Elton is

"Don't let your son go down on me" arrgggg.

I remember defacing my highschool desks with....

Black n Black, like huge blue scribbles... I remember the teacher asking what it was, of course I was corrected and reminded as I was scrubbing it off as my buddies were like, ya man, black in black duhhhhhh...

Geez man that was 16 years ago... Ahhhh

Later

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OAR

"hold me close up Tony Danza"

Or is that British?? "hold me clothes up Tony Danza"

Sly and the Family Stone "Family Affair"

"It's a family of bears"

Some little kid (when I was an older kid)

ELO "Strange Magic"

"I gotta strain my dick"

My little brother

The Stones "Miss You"

"I been haulin ass so long"

My little brother again

Till Tuesday (Amy Mann) "Voices Carry"

"Hush hush keep it down now, this is scary"

My little girl

Beach Boys "Barbara Ann"

"Went to a dance - lookin for a man - "

Me...as a kid

Bear

In folklore (where lots of lyrics are mis-heard and transmitted through the folk process) these are called "Montegreens." That comes from the ballad The Earl of Murray which contains the line: "He has slain the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green" which became "He has slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Montegreen. Who was Lady Montegreen? Certainly nobody in this song.

One of my favorites (it's on the record) is John Jackson's lyrics to Frankie and Albert, the last verse of which starts out: "This story has no moral, this story has no end." Jackson sings "Victrola has no morals . . . " Well, he knew what a Victola was, and that sounds like the name of a woman with no morals . . . .

Do the PhD thesis.

The old church hymn; Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear.(Gladly The Cross I'd Bear)

CheezWiz by my four-oh-nine.....

"In the Garden of evil baby..." In a gadda da vida"

"Annie walks with me, Annie talks with me..."

On The Simpsons, there was an episode where, at the end, Bart hands out a hymn. Reverend Lovejoy announces, "And nooowww we will sing the hymn, 'In The Garden of Eden' by I. Ron Butterfly."

The last shot is of the church from outside but you can hear the entire town singing the song.

BTO ;"baking Carrot Biscuts":p

John Mellencamp; "I fight with Dorothy, and Dorothy always wins".

My cover band is currently learning J. Geils' "Centerfold". There's a line that says, "My blood runs cold"; all this time I thought they said "My lovers fold".

I think my line is better!

One time I was in a bookstore and I saw a book called "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" which contained commonly misunderstood rock lyrics. One of my favorites was from Led Zepplin's classic Stairway To Heaven which was misunderstood to say:

And there's a wino down the road,

I should have stolen Oreo's.

real lyric:

And as we wind on down the road,

Our shadows taller than our souls.

Here's some that always confused me:

Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche something something...

Aaaaaoooooooh! Werewolves of thunder!

and there's also that Steve Miller Band song that I thought was called "Fly like a (racial slur beginning with an N)"

Originally posted by fantasticsound On The Simpsons, there was an episode where, at the end, Bart hands out a hymn. Reverend Lovejoy announces, "And nooowww we will sing the hymn, 'In The Garden of Eden' by I. Ron Butterfly." The last shot is of the church from outside but you can hear the entire town singing the song.

"Wait a minute.... this sounds like Rock and/or Roll!"

"Whoa whoa whoa it's my dick! Ya know oh o, never believe its that slow .... whoa whoa whoa it's my dick!....'

Kid you not. I really was shocked and asked my sister who was driving me to school "Wow how can they play that on the radio!?" She says "What wrong with it?"

"He's singing about his dick!" She nearly crashed the car and peed her pants. We were both high.

"revved up like a deuce, another roller in the night..."

Interestingly enough, a song penned by Bruce Springsteen. I always used to think he said douche, too.