Misheard song lyrics!

[Not_Giving_Up]

I have a fresh one, thanks to my son.

We were watching the NASCAR race last weekend. One of Darrell Waltrips favorite things to do when someone loses a tire is to sing "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel", to the tune of Lucille.

My son, who knows the real song, says "Mommy, did anybody ever really have 400 kids?" He thought the song said "400 children and crocs in the field" instad of "four hungry children and crops in the field".

[BOSSHOG]

1. Scuse me while i kiss this guy!

[gardenista]

51. Yep, me too!

Used to make me giggle uncontrollably.

[orleans]

56. those books by gavin edwards are so funny!

[progmom]

2. mine likes to sing:

i love rock and roll
put another dime in the juice box, baby! ;)

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. I love it!

I remember when I was a little kid, my mom used to make me sing the Coke commercial for her friends. Years later I figured out why they thought it was so funny. You see, I sang "Coke adds life to Mr. Bunny's wife, so have a Coke and a smile". I was four...Mr. Bunny could have had a wife that was tired!

[WhollyHeretic]

3. There's a bathroom on the right

[TlalocW]

4. I never misheard it as this

But I like singing, "Baking carrot biscuits" instead of "Taking care of business" to piss off my brother.

Baking carrot biscuits... Everyday!
Baking carrot biscuits... With Parkay!
I've been baking carrot biscuits - they're all mine
Baking carrot biscuits - they're my favorite kind.

TlalocW

[Ikonoklast]

49. You ain't right

:crazy:

[Goldmund]

5. My sister, when she was a kid..

Thought that the backing vocals in "All you need is love" ("love, love, love") were singing "bla, bla, bla".

[pnb]

7. Love Shack

The line "funky little shack" messed me up when it first came out because I swore they said "fucking in the shack" and I didn't know how it got onto the radio.

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. That song got me too, but in a different part

Back then, my friends and I lived on MTV. When she screams "Tin roof! Rusted!" in the video, they show a sheep or a goat (I don't remember now) and he turns and looks at her. We all thought she said "Henry! Busted!"...the animal had been bad. I bought the tape and the words were printed inside. We all felt incredibly dumb.

[progmom]

11. I always heard "Henry! Busted!" too!

I still have touble believing that's not what she says.

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. Hey! You mean it wasn't just us?

Well, I don't feel nearly as stupid now!

[Felix Mala]

42. I thought it goes... You're what? En route, Rusty...

[wryter2000]

8. Papa was a rolling stone

And when he died
All that he left us was a loan

[NoSheep]

25. I thought that too and it actually makes sense!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

62. So what are the words? Let me guess.

All he left us was "alone".

[maddiejoan]

10. Beast of Burden.

Used to think it was

"Somebody left the pizza burning,
I left the stove, and now its burning
never never never put on extra cheese"

[progmom]

12. .

:rofl:

[peekaloo]

13. get your motor running, head out on the highway

lookin' for my dentures........

born to be wiiiiiiiilllllddddd.

[Shell Beau]

14. When I was little I thought it said...

Stop in the neighborhood instead of Stop in the Name of Love

The other day my husband said why would anybody want to eat Pudding on a Ritz. I said no, no, no it is Puttin' on the Ritz!!!

My uncle thought it said Lemon Custard is good for Roller Coaster of Love.

[notadmblnd]

15. Here's a current one

put some sugar on my hotdog.

it should be.. put some sugar on my tongue. I actually had to ask my kids what the hell they were saying because all I heard was.. put some sugar on my hotdog.

[GCP]

17. "and you come to me on a submarine"

As opposed to "you come to me on a summer breeze" - "How Deep in your Love" by the BeeGees.

[DU9598]

18. Give me the Beach Boys

as opposed to give me the beat, boys.

[progmom]

23. yep - me too!

:hi:

[aden_nak]

19. REM's Orange Crush: We are ancient sophocles. = We are agents of the free.

[tigereye]

26. but that's even funnier

and Stipe used to mess with the lyrics all the time anyway....

[tk2kewl]

29. I've got my Sprite. I've got my Orange Crush.

[AllegroRondo]

20. I wanna rock and roll all night

and part of every day.

[no name no slogan]

21. She's got electric boobs, a no-haired Jew

ya know I read it in a magaza-eeen aaaah ho......
B-b-b-benny and the jetssssssssssssssssssssssss


www.kissthisguy.com :P

[tigereye]

27. I tried to figure that one out for years

she's got electric boots, a mohair suit...

well, I was right about that one, but not this one from Rocket Man,

"Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone"

I always thought it was burning out a fuse our hair is long.... :)

[no name no slogan]

50. I like yr words better

Of course Sir Elton has been combing impaired since his mid-20s, though, so maybe it was just wishful thinking? :P

[Rainbowreflect]

22. When I was younger I thought Jungle Love was

Chug-a-lug. Hell, I thought it was a drinking song.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

24. At the piano bar

on a cruise Mr. NYCparalegal and I took in April...

Two girls in their 20s singing out loud ... "Hold me closer Tony Danzaaaaa!"

(Tiny Dancer, by Elton John)

[tigereye]

28. oh that's hysterical!

[AllegroRondo]

31. That was a Friends episode

with Phoebe mistaking the lyrics

[ConfuZed]

30. "I ain't no harlem black girl" - Gwen Stefani and

"Potty all the time" by Eddie Murphy

[blockhead]

32. a girl I worked with in high school

thought the Ruppert Holmes song went, "if you like bean enchiladas, getting caught in the rain..."

[patcox2]

34. Take the devil out the freezer

For "Tenth Avenue Freezeout"

[spacelady]

37. My post about this song fell right after yours! Funny!

[Not_Giving_Up]

36. For some reason, not too long ago

I was singing "If you like cheese enchiladas..." I really can't explain why.

[jandrok]

44. Cheese enchildas........... YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Covered in a nice Tex-Mex sauce, with some puffy queso chips and a taco or two on the side, with some beans-n-rice.

Yowza!

[B3Nut]

33. I used to think the Kansas tune...

Carry On Wayward Son ended like:

"Now at last your arms are empty...surely hell awaits for you"

instead of:

"Now your life's no longer empty...surely heaven waits for you"

Makes a bit of difference, methinks.... :silly:

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[spacelady]

35. Tent Devil You Freeze Out n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

38. 'Go Insane' by Lindsey Buckingham

I thought the first line was

Two kinds of people in this world
Women, losers

I finally realized it's Winners, losers.

[Burma Jones]

39. I Had a Hard On - Bertha - Grateful Dead

Also, from REM's Catapault

Injstead of Did we miss anything, it sounded to me like Ted Weemer's City Thing.....

[trackfan]

40. I'd much rather be the Reverend Blue Jeans

s/b forever in blue jeans. I like it better the way I heard it.

[latebloomer]

41. menage a trois

from the Young Rascals' "Groovin'"

"Life would be ecstasy
You and me and Leslie"

(Instead of "endlessly")-- My husband heard it the same way.

[Felix Mala]

43. I swear Steve Miller sings: I speak of the pompadous of love...

[AntiCoup2K4]

45. Actually he does.

He's admitted that he just made up a word and threw it in there, because no real words fit the line.

[Shredr]

46. "Alex the seal..."

The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed."

[Shakespeare]

47. Those are known as mondegreens.

According to San Francisco's beloved Jon Carroll, that is:

"For those of you who have not yet received the pamphlet (mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile), the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.

As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this:

Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands
Oh where hae you been?
They hae slay the Earl of Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

Poor Lady Mondegreen, thought Sylvia Wright. A tragic heroine dying with her liege; how poetic. When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism."

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml

Long live Jon Carroll. :-)

[snickersnee]

55. i always thought that was "monty creams"

...nyuknyuknyuk...:yoiks:

[Strawman]

48. "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles

Sung as "One Eyed Snake" by Cheech in "Things Are Tough All Over"

[guitar man]

52. blinded by the light

...wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night....

:blush:

[Hardrada]

57. That one always bugs me.

What are the actual lyrics to that damned thing.

[Floogeldy]

53. Allah cat tall baloney peep hole

B-)

[VOX]

59. Good one!

:thumbsup:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

60. Self delete.

[Kathleen04]

54. ZZ Top...

"Every girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man"

I thought it was "Every girl's crazy about his shy best friend".. sucks to be that guy :+

[Hardrada]

58. Louie Louaaye

I got her way down low....

[Crazy Guggenheim]

61. But what did "Relax don't do it" really mean?

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