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The Best Misheard Song Lyrics

Discussion in 'Music to Your Ears' started by CFFF, Jan 17, 2017.

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  1. Jun 7, 2017 #141
    tonyguitargoat

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    How about from Queen "Is this the real life? Is this just Battersea?"

    And later in the same song "I sometimes wish I'd never been boiled in oil"!!!
     
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    Elton John probably wanted to be held closer by Tony Danza.
     
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    A guy I knew years ago thought Billy Idol was singing "how's about a date?" instead of Eyes Without a Face.
     
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    I remember when , she use to sing Sha la La la la la la ..la la you lucky dog

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    There's a bathroom on the right
     
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    When I was playing in a pickup Bluegrass band that's how we did it.
     
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    charlie chitlin

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    All you need is blah....
     
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    That doesn't really count, as it was arguably not in English, but Jamaican patois or dialect.

    Mind you, the first time or two I heard UB40 doing "Many Rivers To Cross", I could have sworn that the Brummie Englishman Ali Campbell was singing, in his peculiar affected Ja-fake-an accent, about some female called Mary Belinda...
     
  8. Jun 7, 2017 #148
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    Too many years ago....a young girl in a friend's church grew up thinking a line in a hymn "What shall it profit a man?" was instead "Watch out! It's prob'ly a man".

    Also...a line in A Hard Day's Night...."so why on earth should I moan, 'cos when I get you alone..." as "so why I love to come home, 'cos when I get you alone..."....or maybe the other way around...I still get confused.
     
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    Song 2

    The written lyric is
    "I got my head checked
    by a jumbo jet" which simply sounds..wrong.

    I have heard many "alternative" lyrics most revolving around getting ones hair groomed by a eastern mystic as in "I got my head shaved by a Gimobay (whatever that might be) Apparently the band has taken to performing a different nonsensical lyric each time out..
     
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    My favorite too.
     
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    The (English) Beat, Best Friend:
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    You been talking bout yourself again
    And no one sees to share your views,
    Why doesn't anybody listen to UKIP.'

    Okay, I might be making that up 'cause I was driving myself mad trying to work out that song for the band but it amused me for a bit. Don't forget to vote kids :cool:
     
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    There are some great misheard lyrics videos on YouTube of James LaBrie of Dream Theater. That guy's voice is shot, but even when he was great his diction was just garbled especially in his higher range.
     
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    For years I thought this was "working for presser" (as in "downpresser man") I have a friend who insisted it was "working for peanuts", gotta love the web..
     
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    When I was little one of the first albums I got was the Beatles Sgt. Pepper and thought that Lucy in the sky was You see in the sky. Lol
     
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    When I saw Fogerty in vegas last year, he actually sang "there's a bathroom on the right" while pointing stage right, where the actual bathrooms were...
     
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    YES!!! Although I thought it was 'Thunder Chief,' haha
     
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    I thought it was Ah let's a go shoppin!! Ain't that a drag...
     
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