Mondegreens

[RGMike]

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"

[ggould]

All the lyrics sites say "I bless the rains" but I've always heard "I miss the rains."  Anyone got a Toto songbook?

[RGMike]

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" 

[RGMike]

Someone on the radio-info.com SF board just referred to Jefferson Airplane's "Embryonic Journey" as "Amniotic Fluid".   Bwahahaha!

[RGMike]

Mondegreen of the Week: that damn Neon Trees song.

"It started with a whisper.
And now it's in my keester."

[Here'sToYa!]

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

[RGMike]

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.

[ggould]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-hard-to-understand/

[urth]

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...

[RGMike]

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.

[Tinka Cat]

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

[mshray]

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!"

[Big Fingers McGee]

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]

[ggould]

at Chicago GD show:

"Wake up to find out that you are disguised as a squirrel."

[urth]

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...."