Misheard lyrics

[Otta]

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?

[steveo]

'You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille

With four hundred children and a crap in the fields.'

[giggirl]

What's a glove got to do with it?

[Otta]

As a kid I used to think Michael Jackson was sining to a librarian girl.

[HonaloochieB]

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]

My initial hearings of Herman's Hermits 'She's A Must To Avoid' had me singing the chorus as 'She's a muscular boy'.

There was no conscious thought at the time of gender-bending shenanigans or the like, just singing what (I thought) I heard.

[steveo]

Halal

Is it meat you're looking for?

[red devil]

Sue Lawley, Sue Lawley, I feel Sue Lawley...

[Otta]

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.

[HonaloochieB]

Steady on Otta, that's a bloody Lotus Eaters song, that is.

[seemster]

For years I was convinced "There It Is" by Shalamar was actually "Zebedee" - my excuse is I was only 6 or 7 when it was released..

[HonaloochieB]

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.

[RosieH]

Hi penelope. Hi (hi, hi, hi!)

[numbers]

We don't need no vegetation.

[uncleglen]

My son misheard 'Who are You' by the Who as 'Oooh Olly'. And my brother used to singalong to 'Day Trip Up'

[HonaloochieB]

Bob Dylan was supposed to have heard the 'I can't hide' lines in The Beatles 'I Want To Hold Your Hand ' as 'I get high' and thought they were all hopped on mary-jane just like him.

I trust I'm not just repeating some old canard here.

[Gingerbeer]

She Drives Me Crazy(Like long blonde hair).

[TillieTrotter]

That's actually called a mondegreen when you mishear lyrics. Fact of the day!

[reeko]

"A wain in a manger"

"Sydney's having a wonderful Christmas time"

"Money for nothing and my chips for free"

[minder]

Latest one of many over the years is Troublemaker by Olley Mars. If you didn't know the title of the song then in the middle it sounded like Jamaica and that's how I sang it up until a few weeks ago when my girls corrected me!

[tfwsoll]

Desmond Dekker's Israelites was 'Mi Ears Are Alight'.

[edcam]

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..."

[Dopamine1979]

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.

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv2fVaHSISw

[Otta]

tfwsoll Wrote:

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> Desmond Dekker's Israelites was 'Mi Ears Are

> Alight'.

This reminds me of Lenny Henry, he did a thing about that once.