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Main Discussion Area => Mondegreens, My 3 Songs, Other Trivia => Topic started by: Beej on January 26, 2005, 10:15:59 AM
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Because the papers want to know "Who shot you where?",
NOT whose shirts you wear....
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Back in high school, I had a friend who thought when the Clash sang "Rock the casbah" they were in fact singing "Rat in the cat box".
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An old friend of mine used to sing that as, "You smell like my cat's butt / You smell like my cat's butt." I don't think he actually thought that was the lyric, though.
"Sunday monkey no play piano song / play piano song,"
Gaz.
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like the deadly hands of a radium clock
at the bottom, of the pool
sounds like
...like the broken hands of a radio clock
at the bottom of the pool
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Stevie, "Part Time Lover"
"we are undercover fascists on the run"
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The summer between high school & college I briefly sorta dated this jock-girl (basketball) who would always sing John Cougar Melloncamp's "Jack & Diane" thusly:
... hold on to sixteen
As long as you caaan.
Changescomearoundrealsoon
Make us swim in a ham...
and then she'd laugh uproarioulsy. I smiled weakly and pretended it was funny. It didn't last long.
Hey, she had great legs, OK?
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Make us swim in a ham...
Hey, she had great legs, OK?
maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'
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Hey, she had great legs, OK?
Life's full of trade-offs, man.
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Amen to that, Brother Rod.
ETA:
maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'
Mmm, Mia Hamm....
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as heard on ChiTown 10@10 today:
Aerosmith, "Dream On" -- "half my life's in Vogue's hidden pages."
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Amen to that, Brother Rod.
ETA:
maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'
Mmm, Mia Hamm....
Give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.
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From The Beautiful South's "Straight In At 37":
I heard:
"Well Simon le Bon sang at my high school prom
And he was sick in the pants and he was sick in the yard"
they sing:
"Well Simon le Bon stayed round my house before
And he was sick on the plants and he was sick on the floor"
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Oh Georgina! Oh Georgina!
pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"
"In My Time of Dying."
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Oh Georgina! Oh Georgina!
pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"
"In My Time of Dying."
it's not "Georgina"? I figured he'd just seen "The Devil in Miss Jones"...
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Oh Georgina! Oh Georgina!
pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"
"In My Time of Dying."
i used to think it was "on my genius"
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Oh Georgina! Oh Georgina!
pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"
"In My Time of Dying."
i used to think it was "on my genius"
Well, considering their egos at the time, a reasonable assumption. Makes more sense than O Georgina!
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"i wanna be a wombat, i wanna be anemic"
that was listed in a book of mondegreen for soul II soul's "back to life" (which is currently playing on smotth fm)
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
Don't worry, 90% of karaoke artists and cabaret pianists sing it as "began." The lyric makes sense either way -- either he's faking it just so he can stay warm, or he's really praying for a way out (which makes the preacher, who likes the cold, a symbol of what he wants to escape).
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i always thought it was "began," also.
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watching a Mamas and Papas documentary on KQED, and a really old Shindig tape, I finally heard
You know I can't sleep at night
I don't know who can
when I always thought it wasYou know I can't sleep at night
I don't often can
What the hell I was thinking, I don't know!
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spurred on by Mike's WLNG post, I tuned in to hear what I always heard as "Oh A Tree in Motion!"
this really takes me right back to the street I lived on then.
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Not musical, but I was just reminded today of one of my childhood mondegreens -- from the pledge of allegiance: "and to the republic, for witches' stands" (me, age 5: huh?) ... I don't think I'd ever heard the pledge of allegiance before kindergarten, and basically recited the pledge phonetically until I could piece together what was going on. Never did gain a contextual appreciation of its actual text.
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KCDX just played Nick Lowe's "Heart of the City", which contains the phrase "It's a girl, my lord", cribbed from "Take it Easy". So I googled to see if I could find it in a third song for M3S purposes. No luck, but I did come across 2 "Take it Easy" mondegreens:
"It's a girl, my lord, in some fathead's Ford"
"Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother"
(!)
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ALL these years, I thought the lyrics to Sam Cooke's What a Wonderful World was:
Don't know much about geography,
don't know much trigonometry.
Don't know much about algebra,
don't know what it's like through this world
turns out, now that our band is playing it, I find out it's about slide rules!:
Don't know much about geography,
don't know much trigonometry.
Don't know much about algebra,
don't know what s slide rule is for.
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Not musical, but I was just reminded today of one of my childhood mondegreens -- from the pledge of allegiance: "and to the republic, for witches' stands" (me, age 5: huh?) ... I don't think I'd ever heard the pledge of allegiance before kindergarten, and basically recited the pledge phonetically until I could piece together what was going on. Never did gain a contextual appreciation of its actual text.
"and to the republic, for Richard Stanz"
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
and tonight at band practice, we were going over this song, and the lyrics the guitarist pulled off the web said "began!"
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This could have gone in the YouTube thread, but I think it belongs here. You'll see why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
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This could have gone in the YouTube thread, but I think it belongs here. You'll see why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
what I could see was funny, but it kept stopping at the 59 second mark.
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This could have gone in the YouTube thread, but I think it belongs here. You'll see why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
c'mon, m.c. escher, make me fries! i laughed so hard i'm crying. i'm a little frightened to view the other videos.
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we have recently started playing this song at our Laguna Honda gig, and suddenly one morning recently, in a half-dream state, I thought "Where's the Masked Marauder verse?" It seems that all these years, I've been casually hearing this verse:
And at night the stars they put on a show for free
and I heard:And like the Masked Marauder shows for free
pretty weird. It never occurred to me while we were rehearsing it. Kind of like my dream world coming into contact with my waking world
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Was in Starbucks this morning, they were playing a reggae CD that included a cover of Smokey's "I Second That Emotion", and as reggae covers often do, it had mangled lyrics: "only for one night with no repeat" became "only someone nice who won't repeat".
Which makes it a rasta-mon-degreen, I guess ;)
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A significant portion of John Murrell of the Merc's Good Morning Silicon Valley blog today was about the word "mondegreen" finally making it into Merriam-Webster's (including the etymology of the term, which I'd somehow never heard).
Please join me in a chorus of "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear": OK, it's a ways off topic, with only the most tenuous of tech angles, but GMSV has a soft spot for the English language, and when new words and phrases are granted the equivalent of full citizenship by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, we like to welcome them aboard. Freshly stamped with legitimacy this year are more than 100 new entries, chosen from tens of thousands for their broad and frequent use. Among them are signs of the times -- "dirty bomb," "air quotes," "subprime" and "wing nut" -- along with some you'd think would have made the cut earlier, like "edamame" and "Texas Hold 'em." The tech world's contributions this year include "fanboy," "malware," "netroots," "Webinar" and, thanks to HP, "pretexting." John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher, got a tad effusive in his praise for the creators of tech jargon, saying, "There's a kind of collective genius on the part of the people developing this technology, using vocabulary that is immediately accessible to all of us. It's sometimes absolutely poetic." Obviously, "immediately accessible" does not apply to Web 2.0 company names.
My favorite entry, however, has to be "mondegreen." The word may be strange, though it's been in use for more than 50 years, but the concept is familiar to anyone who ever thought Hendrix was singing "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" in "Purple Haze." A mondegreen is like a malapropism in reverse -- words mistaken for other words, most often in phrases and lyrics. The word is derived from one writer's confusion over the words of a Scottish ballad -- hearing the line "they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green," she felt bad for poor "Lady Mondegreen." Mondegreen was a favorite of the Merriam-Webster folks as well, so much so that they're asking the public to submit their favorites by July 25 for public enjoyment. This could give the word a bump in popularity, but we all need to our part for this newbie noun -- see if you can work it into conversation soon.
more on the inclusion: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/merriam-webster-honors-lyrically-misunderstood-lady-mondegreen,458182.shtml (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/merriam-webster-honors-lyrically-misunderstood-lady-mondegreen,458182.shtml)
submissions wanted: http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords08.htm (http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords08.htm)
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carrol today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carrol today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
Finally! I'm not alone on EJ's "electric boobs"!
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carrol today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
Finally! I'm not alone on EJ's "electric boobs"!
i always sing that, too!
but, really - what is lowell singing?
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carrol today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
love it:Take a ribbon from your hair, shake a goose and let it fall, just call me angel of the morning, angel; just brush my teeth before you leave
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carrol today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
Finally! I'm not alone on EJ's "electric boobs"!
i always sing that, too!
but, really - what is lowell singing?
"weed, whites (as in amphetamines) and wine".
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A voter's only Mondegreen treat from Jon Carroll today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/11/04/DD5A13S12M.DTL
During the opening number of the "Experience Hendrix" all-star concert Monday night, "Purple Haze", guitarist Eric Gales purposely sang one of the best known mondegreens, "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy," pointing to bassist Billy Cox, who had actually been in Hendrix' band.
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
Don't worry, 90% of karaoke artists and cabaret pianists sing it as "began." The lyric makes sense either way -- either he's faking it just so he can stay warm, or he's really praying for a way out (which makes the preacher, who likes the cold, a symbol of what he wants to escape).
and now, in a strange twist, Gaz has posted a link to a Carpenter's video over in Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpMkMmGkTE
Karen is clearly singing "began to pray!"
Will the real Mondegreen please stand up?
;D
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
Don't worry, 90% of karaoke artists and cabaret pianists sing it as "began." The lyric makes sense either way -- either he's faking it just so he can stay warm, or he's really praying for a way out (which makes the preacher, who likes the cold, a symbol of what he wants to escape).
and now, in a strange twist, Gaz has posted a link to a Carpenter's video over in Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpMkMmGkTE
Karen is clearly singing "began to pray!"
Will the real Mondegreen please stand up?
;D
When we sang this song in my high school glee club, we sang "began to pray." Then again, it was a Jesuit high school and a nun ran the glee club. she probably never faked it... praying, that is. :)
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
Don't worry, 90% of karaoke artists and cabaret pianists sing it as "began." The lyric makes sense either way -- either he's faking it just so he can stay warm, or he's really praying for a way out (which makes the preacher, who likes the cold, a symbol of what he wants to escape).
and now, in a strange twist, Gaz has posted a link to a Carpenter's video over in Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpMkMmGkTE
Karen is clearly singing "began to pray!"
Will the real Mondegreen please stand up?
;D
When we sang this song in my high school glee club, we sang "began to pray." Then again, it was a Jesuit high school and a nun ran the glee club. she probably never faked it... praying, that is. :)
been doing a lot of surfing/research about this, and found many conflicting lyrics, including another mondegreen where some people hear "the preacher lights the coals."
On this NPR site, it would seem clear that the 'official' lyrics are 'pretend to play.'
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/californiadreamin/index.html
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My daughter and I both used to think the song went:
"I got down on my knees, and began to pray"
When it's supposed to be:
"I got down on my knees, and pretend to pray"
It never dawned on me that the singer was pretending, so the preacher would let him stay in the warm church. Well, maybe it half-occurred, since it says "You know the preacher likes the cold, he knows I'm gonna stay" but I never heard the word 'pretend'
And I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years!
Don't worry, 90% of karaoke artists and cabaret pianists sing it as "began." The lyric makes sense either way -- either he's faking it just so he can stay warm, or he's really praying for a way out (which makes the preacher, who likes the cold, a symbol of what he wants to escape).
and now, in a strange twist, Gaz has posted a link to a Carpenter's video over in Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpMkMmGkTE
Karen is clearly singing "began to pray!"
Will the real Mondegreen please stand up?
;D
When we sang this song in my high school glee club, we sang "began to pray." Then again, it was a Jesuit high school and a nun ran the glee club. she probably never faked it... praying, that is. :)
been doing a lot of surfing/research about this, and found many conflicting lyrics, including another mondegreen where some people hear "the preacher lights the coals."
I sang the same green once. It makes sense! :)
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have we seen this yet?
"the girl with colitis goes by"
I searched here and didn't find it.
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have we seen this yet?
"the girl with colitis goes by"
I searched here and didn't find it.
Don't know if we've discussed it, but I've seen that one mentioned years ago when Jon Carroll would do his periodic mondegreen columns. It's reached the Hall of Fame by now, I imagine.
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My son Adrian (9) loves the concept of mondegreens & on several occasions we've heard "Every Time You Go Away" on the radio & he belts out: "..you take a piece of meat with you!"
on a related note, I was talking to a fellow dad at school during pick up time today and we were discussing a recent incident in which his son, both of mine & a couple other boys were having difficulty settling who got to be in which tent at their campout last weekend. I said that first one boy, and then my youngest, Gabriel, "volunteered to go to a different tent and extricated themselves from the situation".
Adrian was within earshot & started complaining, how come *his* tent didn't get any extra cake!
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For years my brother's friend would hear these lines in Tom Petty's Jammin' Me
Take back your mess o' red tape,
Take back your those basketballs.
Take back any morphine
Give em all a place to go
the actual lyrics:
Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Give 'em all some place to go
I think we can see which ones have stood the test of time... :)
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"the girl with colitis goes by"
"Every Time You Go Away" on the radio & he belts out: "..you take a piece of meat with you!"
both are true classics!
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I always heard Neil Diamond sing "She got the Western Movement" in Cherry, Cherry
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Well he's the Genius of Love
I always thought it was
Where is Lon Chaney? - he is so gone
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
"He wants to see you crawl, before I walk away, The reds and the whites and the Jews"
-Kings of Leon
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
Ree-Ree's doing a Snickers commercial with Liza Minelli (a variation on the Betty White/Abe Vigoda spot that ran during the Super Bowl).
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
Ree-Ree's doing a Snickers commercial with Liza Minelli (a variation on the Betty White/Abe Vigoda spot that ran during the Super Bowl).
Abe Vigoda is still alive?
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
Ree-Ree's doing a Snickers commercial with Liza Minelli (a variation on the Betty White/Abe Vigoda spot that ran during the Super Bowl).
Abe Vigoda is still alive?
I said the same thing! Had to see it with my own eyes!
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
Ree-Ree's doing a Snickers commercial with Liza Minelli (a variation on the Betty White/Abe Vigoda spot that ran during the Super Bowl).
Abe Vigoda is still alive?
Abe Vigoda Status (http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php)
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"Take me to Harlem, and I'll always love you..."
-Aretha Franklin
Ree-Ree's doing a Snickers commercial with Liza Minelli (a variation on the Betty White/Abe Vigoda spot that ran during the Super Bowl).
Abe Vigoda is still alive?
Abe Vigoda Status (http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php)
Thanks. :)
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DCFC, "Little Bribes" -- am I the only one who thought they were saying "you were like a walking condiment" (instead of "compliment")?
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One that never occurred to me in 43 years of hearing "Groovin'" by the Rascals, but WLNG's Brian Bannon just said that he used to hear "you and me, endlessly..." as "you and me... and Lesley" (!)
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One that never occurred to me in 43 years of hearing "Groovin'" by the Rascals, but WLNG's Brian Bannon just said that he used to hear "you and me, endlessly..." as "you and me... and Lesley" (!)
I've heard others say the same thing. I never would have come up with that on my own.
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One that never occurred to me in 43 years of hearing "Groovin'" by the Rascals, but WLNG's Brian Bannon just said that he used to hear "you and me, endlessly..." as "you and me... and Lesley" (!)
I've heard others say the same thing. I never would have come up with that on my own.
OTOH, I *always* hear "to get caught with Shirley'd be the death of us all" in "Smokin in the Boy's Room"
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I just looked up the lyrics to Brass In Pocket, and realized that I've been singing a different song for the past 30 years!
Example: got motion, estranged emotion - I thought it was: "some strange emotion"
been driving, Detroit leaning - I thought was: been driving, "detour lane"
got something, I'm winking at you/gonna make you make you, make you notice - I thought was "got something, a wink and a tail" or "when can I tell" (LOL!)
I could go on and on with this song. Sigh.
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I just looked up the lyrics to Brass In Pocket, and realized that I've been singing a different song for the past 30 years!
Example: got motion, estranged emotion - I thought it was: "some strange emotion"
been driving, Detroit leaning - I thought was: been driving, "detour lane"
got something, I'm winking at you/gonna make you make you, make you notice - I thought was "got something, a wink and a tail" or "when can I tell" (LOL!)
I could go on and on with this song. Sigh.
indeed, a m'green classic. I always thought "no reason" was "no visa".
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Haha: three attempts at the lyrics to WKRP's closing theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uH76COzk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCWHcvOduI&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlz1BqS8A0&NR=1
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This one's for you, Dave...
What a fool believes
he sings
the rising has the flour!
some breeze in the way
(this is almost a haiku...)
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Just last week, I realized just WTH Fleetwood Mac was singing in Dreams.
the line "When the rain washes you clean you'll know" -- I always thought the line went (something) like "When the rainbow (unintelligible) you clean you'll know..."
A strange choice to emphasize the second syllable in "washes." That has thrown me off the Stevie Nicks lyric trail for 34+ years. That darn goat!
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Just last week, I realized just WTH Fleetwood Mac was singing in Dreams.
the line "When the rain washes you clean you'll know" -- I always thought the line went (something) like "When the rainbow (unintelligible) you clean you'll know..."
A strange choice to emphasize the second syllable in "washes." That has thrown me off the Stevie Nicks lyric trail for 34+ years. That darn goat!
Lucy Lawless as Stevie Nicks on SNL:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1322077-stevie-nicks-lucy-lawless
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Just last week, I realized just WTH Fleetwood Mac was singing in Dreams.
the line "When the rain washes you clean you'll know" -- I always thought the line went (something) like "When the rainbow (unintelligible) you clean you'll know..."
A strange choice to emphasize the second syllable in "washes." That has thrown me off the Stevie Nicks lyric trail for 34+ years. That darn goat!
Lucy Lawless as Stevie Nicks on SNL:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1322077-stevie-nicks-lucy-lawless
awesome! now I'm hungry for Mexican -- pero no birria de chivo, gracias!
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awesome! now I'm hungry for Mexican -- pero no birria de chivo, gracias!
I love that stuff.
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I've been singing Vampire Weekend's Oxford Comma wrong all this time. I thought it went, Why would you like about how much coke you have? Why would you like about something dumb like that? It's coal, not coke. WTF? ::)
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This could go in the youtube thread, but as a mondegreen, you may never hear the song the same way again!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40
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The girl at the beginning of Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" (who I found out was Kate Bush), says "Jeux Sans Frontieres". DC played it and said it's commonly heard as "she's so popular." Although, it honestly sounded more to me like "she's so f---ing lame"...but I knew that couldn't be correct. :-X
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Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" commonly heard as "she's so popular."
Wait...that's not what it says? Well, I'll be!
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Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" commonly heard as "she's so popular."
Wait...that's not what it says? Well, I'll be!
That was how I heard it for several years too.
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Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" commonly heard as "she's so popular."
Wait...that's not what it says? Well, I'll be!
That was how I heard it for several years too.
same here.
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Dunno if we've ever discussed mondegreens within covers/remakes. Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", for example, mangles the lyrics pretty badly; ditto Love Affair's cover of "Everlasting Love".
Just heard the DC5's remake of "Over & Over" which changes "everybody there was stag" to "everybody there was there" which makes no sense.
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OK, I have seen and heard some hilariously off-the-wall mondegreens in my time... but I just stumbled upon the most ridiculously screwed-up mangling of lyrics EVER. And they're on the most legit lyrics site around! There's no direct link, but go to the Top40 db
http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/top40/index.html
click 1975 and then find the lyrics to "Lady Marmalade". OMFG.
"Stayed in her pool while watch he crashing up/That boy drank all that night don't know why" ???
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All the lyrics sites say "I bless the rains" but I've always heard "I miss the rains." Anyone got a Toto songbook?
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All the lyrics sites say "I bless the rains" but I've always heard "I miss the rains." Anyone got a Toto songbook?
I used to think it was "I guess the plane's down in Africa" ;)
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Someone on the radio-info.com SF board just referred to Jefferson Airplane's "Embryonic Journey" as "Amniotic Fluid". Bwahahaha!
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Mondegreen of the Week: that damn Neon Trees song.
"It started with a whisper.
And now it's in my keester."
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Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me -->
Ohhhh Canada,
I'm a lizard baby, so why don't you kill me
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Another annoying "Best Mondegreens ever" post, this one on Yahoo:
http://music.yahoo.com/video/top-10-misheard-lyrics-210526268.html
Obviously, the CCR, Hendrix and Paul Young choices are classic and well-known, but nobody, anywhere, ever thought REM was singing "let's pee in the corner". Seriously.
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http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-hard-to-understand/
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http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-hard-to-understand/
No question Ozzy's Brummie accent makes it sound as if he has a mouthful of marbles. But why do these mondegreen articles always have to stretch so far to find other examples besides the typical "scuse me while I kiss this guy" and so forth?
"We built this city on logs and coal"?!?!? Oh please...
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http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-hard-to-understand/
No question Ozzy's Brummie accent makes it sound as if he has a mouthful of marbles. But why do these mondegreen articles always have to stretch so far to find other examples besides the typical "scuse me while I kiss this guy" and so forth?
"We built this city on logs and coal"?!?!? Oh please...
Dunno if he still does, but Jon Carroll used to do a mondegreens column about twice a year, and there were always a ton of "examples" from readers that were clearly bogus and silly ones that no person had ever actually experienced.
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first line of song:
"I get a set of little groceries on-a my mind."
"Hush" by Deep Purple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae_j-OE2ubM
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last Sunday morning driving with my 14 yr old & listening to Acoustic Sunrise, Rosalie plays some Pete Townshend:
According to my son, he hears something about "...fighting in the street...", "...mystery meat...", and then "...we won't get food again!"
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Five For Fighting's "Superman" (actual):
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me, inside of me [2x]
Per my creaky ears last night:
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
In sodomy, In sodomy [2x]
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at Chicago GD show:
"Wake up to find out that you are disguised as a squirrel."
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at Chicago GD show:
"Wake up to find out that you are disguised as a squirrel."
"Damn, I knew I shouldn't have taken that third dose...."