Songs you just got wrong

[redfishsc]

I was working with a friend the other day and a car drove by playing AC/DC's "dirty deeds" on the radio. I heard him kinda mumble along with it "dirty deeds, thunder cheeks!".

After I stopped laughing at him, I remembered that years ago I didn't understand what they were saying either, I thought it was some weird british humor "dirty deeds, dunder geeks"


Then there's Credence Clearwater "there's a bathroom on the right" (a bad moon on the rise).


Dwight Yokum had a song called "A thousand miles from nowhere" and at one point he says "I have echoes in my head", it sounded to me like he was saying "I have pickles in my head".

Did you ever goof a song like that?

 

[THarvey]

No, I have never messed up a song like that.

Although, I am amazed how many times the radio gets it wrong. [)]

 

[karlkuehn]

*singing along, as loud as possible, with a sentimental and seductive glint in the eye, to a popular 'Journey' song*

"So now I commmme to youuuuu, with broken ahhhrmsss...Nothing so highhhh...I mean what I sayyyyyy..."

For the longest time, I never understood why the wife didn't melt when I sang that...

 

[txbatons]

Those are great! One of my students gave me a desk calendar that had a different misheard rock lyric for every day of the year!

Related, there's an hysterical YouTube video of misheard Carmina Burana lyrics - just search YouTube for "misheard lyrics: Oh, four tuna" - it's very funny!

 

[DCBluesman]

Misheard? Are you sure? Maybe Jimi really DID say "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy." [8D]

 

[Glass Scratcher]

Well there is always "We Didn't Start The Fire", STORM FRONT, Billy Joel, the line:

Children of the little mind...
Which should be, Children of Thalidomide.

 

[redfishsc]

Originally posted by DCBluesman

Misheard? Are you sure? Maybe Jimi really DID say "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy." [8D]

THAT is what I'm talking about! I can't believe I never noticed that!

 

[VisExp]

I've always wondered who "Reverend Blue Jeans" was

 

[devowoodworking]

Years ago when working on a building, an ironworker had wrote the lyric 'I'm walking on sunshine' on a steel girter over fity feet up!Funny how something like that stays with you, pretty cool

 

[wudnhed]

"Paperback Writer"

Take the last right turn[B)]

 

[maxwell_smart007]

"the ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind"

 

[fiferb]

I thought is was dirty deeds, done to sheep.[)]

 

[jskeen]

I reconsidered my original comment about ausies and sheep. I'll just leave it at that

 

[DCBluesman]

There is atually a word for these misheard lyrics. They are called mondegreens. The term "mondegreen" was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Atlantic article. As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen." As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years. The song was not about the tragic fate of Lady Mondegreen, but rather, the continuing plight of the good earl: "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green."

 

[wicook]

Lou, I would hate to be in a game of trivia with you!

 

[redfishsc]

Originally posted by fiferb

I thought is was dirty deeds, done to sheep.[)]

There is a version of that out there. I nearly whizzed in my pants when I heard it. Suffice it to say I don't listen to much AC/DC anymore, lol.

 

[turned_for_good]

Elton Johns' Tiny Dancer

Hold me closer Tony Danza
instead of
Hold me closer tiny dancer

 

[skiprat]

Talking about Elton John, what about.....

'Don't let your son go down on me'[}]

Sorry[:I]

 

[turned_for_good]

Originally posted by skiprat


'Don't let your son go down on me'[}]

Sorry[:I]

I though that was a Michael Jackson Song[}]

 

[redfishsc]

I though that was a Michael Jackson Song[}]

I was a kid when Jacko's "Billy Jean is not my lover" came out, and I thought he was saying "Billy Jean is not my mother" which was REALLY weirdo to me because I had never, at the time, met a girl named Billy, so I thought Billy Jean was a guy.

Apparently I was a prophet and didn't know it[B)].

 

[jughead]

My youngest son was singing along with AC/DC TNT and his lyrics was..........

Lock up your donuts
Lock up your wife
Lock up your fat dog
and run for your life

 

[Blind_Squirrel]

In Sophie B. Hawkins song "As I Lay Me Down"

I hear the background singers singing "I like tacos!"

 

[redfishsc]

Originally posted by jughead

My youngest son was singing along with AC/DC TNT and his lyrics was..........

Lock up your donuts
Lock up your wife
Lock up your fat dog
and run for your life

Sounds to me like Officer Wiggum is on the patrol!

Someone a while back, maybe on this forum, said that they overheard their kid in the car singing that Alabama tune "If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band"

His interpretation was cute--- "If you're gonna pay your taxes, you gotta have a little in the bank".

Unfortunately, I learned that truth VERY MUCH the hard way this year![V]..........