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Wigan's FA Cup triumph yesterday reminded me of this. When I was at uni I knew a lovely girl from Wigan (yes I fancied her, but that is another story) and she was convinced that this song...




... featured the lyric "Heads high, kill the wiganer". Made me laugh.


Others include Paranoid by Black Sabbath "I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but it's too late" has been mistaken for "I tell you to END YOUR life".


And Jimi's Purple Haze "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" has been misheard as "Excuse me while I kiss THIS GUY".


Any others?

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I feel slightly disappointed that the Sab's lyric wasn't an encouragement to suicide after all.

I thought as an angst-rudden teen it evoked a sense of the weltschmertz of the central subject, so beaten down by circumstances he couldn't even end his life, but reckoning that the listener should to avoid the existential pain he found himself in.


I think if his woman HAD been able to help him with his mind, it all might have turned out differently.


Something a-like this, perhaps?


Met a lovely woman she help me greatly with my mind

People think I'm inane because I am smiling all the time

All day long I think of her and it keeps me pacified

Think I'll cook a stew for her with her favourite - salsify

Can I get it, somewhere down the Lane?


Oh yeah


Cos' I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find

I can't source the things that make stew glorious, I must keep tryin'

Make a joke and I will laugh and you will laugh and we'll hoot on the Rye

Happiness is all I feel and love to me is really real

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state

I tell you to enjoy life I wish all could it's truly great


If Kurt Cobain spent his teenage years listening to these lyrics then he might still be with us today.

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I feel slightly disappointed that the Sab's lyric

> wasn't an encouragement to suicide after all.

> I thought as an angst-rudden teen it evoked a

> sense of the weltschmertz of the central subject,

> so beaten down by circumstances he couldn't even

> end his life, but reckoning that the listener

> should to avoid the existential pain he found

> himself in.

>

> I think if his woman HAD been able to help him

> with his mind, it all might have turned out

> differently.

>

> Something a-like this, perhaps?

>

> Met a lovely woman she help me greatly with my

> mind

> People think I'm inane because I am smiling all

> the time

> All day long I think of her and it keeps me

> pacified

> Think I'll cook a stew for her with her favourite

> - salsify

> Can I get it, somewhere down the Lane?

>

> Oh yeah

>

> Cos' I need someone to show me the things in life

> that I can't find

> I can't source the things that make stew glorious,

> I must keep tryin'

> Make a joke and I will laugh and you will laugh

> and we'll hoot on the Rye

> Happiness is all I feel and love to me is really

> real

> And so as you hear these words telling you now of

> my state

> I tell you to enjoy life I wish all could it's

> truly great

>

> If Kurt Cobain spent his teenage years listening

> to these lyrics then he might still be with us

> today.



Good stuff Hona.


We shoul;d probably lose that overdrive on the guitar, it's bound to set a boy's nerves on edge. In fact, we should probably lose the riff too. Strummed chords on acoustic guitars with a nice folk groove should do it.

Many years ago when I worked in a nursery one of the popular songs with the kids was 'Old Tom Tomato'.


The opening lines were


"Old Tom Tomato, like a big red ball, basking in the sunshine behind the garden wall"


One of my colleagues asked me to listen closely to what one of the children was ACTUALLY singing .,


And sure enough clear as clear 'Tommy' (name changed to protect the potty-mouth) was interpreting it as;


"...like a big red ball, BASTARD in the sunshine behind the garden wall"


Being a cosummate professional, I managed to leave the room before guffawing.

I guess he may have heard the word at home and just thought that it was OK.


Anyhow a little individual tuition and he was word perfect.

edcam Wrote:

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> A friend used to think the first line of "You're

> the One That I Want" from Grease was "I got shoes,

> they're multiplying."

>

> The best one though is a friend that thought the

> last line of the chorus to "Billie Jean" was "But

> cherries are not my style..."


As a child I always thought he was singing 'Billie Jean, THAT's my lover, she's SUCH a girl and she says I am the one'


I used to think the whole song was a celebration of his relationship with the wonderful Billie Jean rather than a sad tale about a paternity dispute.

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