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  • #46
    Re: Wrong lyrics

    I had trouble understanding lyrics by a couple of female singers. For years I thought Hazel O'Connor was singing about "Don Carlos" and felt a right idiot when I discovered the song was actually "Dawn Chorus".

    Also I wondered what the hell Chrissie Hynde was on about singing that she got "bras in pocket" and was "gonna use my sausage".

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    • #47
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      Misheard lyrics - oh, they're always good fun.

      UP THE JUNCTION by Squeeze

      Actual lyrics:

      This morning at 4.50
      I took her, rather nifty
      Down to an incubator
      Where thirty minutes later
      She gave birth to a daughter

      My misheard lyrics:

      This morning out for fifty
      I took her round the nifty
      Down to her naked painter
      Where thirty minutes later
      She gave that to a doctor

      STRANGE TOWN by The Jam

      Actual lyrics:

      They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
      I'm really a spaceman from those UFOs

      You've got to wear the right clothes

      Be careful not to pick or scratch your nose

      My misheard lyrics:

      They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
      I'm reelin' for some space on the tube - elbows!

      You've got to wear the right clothes
      Or else someone might smash your nose


      But it's not just pop song lyrics that can be misheard. Christmas carols can be, too:

      Good tidings we bring
      To you and your king

      Cooking Wenselas looked out

      And even nursery rhymes:

      I had a little nut tree
      Nothing would it bear
      Buttersilver nutmeg
      And a golden pear
      The present is a foreign country. They do things differently here.

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      • #48
        Re: Wrong lyrics

        Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

        v - Annie are you OK
        x - Annie are you walking

        I thought a particular lyric for 'Working my way back to you' went like
        'Now the lights are low and only a lion could prowl, girl I guess we're too slow.'

        As for xmas carols, mind if I add 'while shepherds washed their socks by night'.

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        • #49
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          Blondie's Heart Of Glass has just played on Soma FM.
          I'd always (don't ask me why) assumed the end of the chorus was "Riding High, I'll go up to the Sewage Line"

          Just googled it.. "Riding high on Love's true blueish light"

          I know which one I prefer

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          • #50
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            I always thought that Sting was singing 'Sue Lawley' (The Nationwide presenter) instead of 'So Lonely'

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            • #51
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              I used to think REM were singing about "Zoe Wanamaker" in The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.
              The Trickster On The Roof

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              • #52
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                My sister always insisted that the Kids from Fame sang 'Hide The Guillotine, Hide, Hide' and not 'High Fedelity, High, High'

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                • #53
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                  re-reading through the post reminded me of another one
                  now since i can remember, I always sang " Good King Wensless Last looked out "
                  when of course he never last looked out of anything ><
                  I didn't know his name was " Wenceslas " till a work mate corrected me and pointed out my error
                  that was only 6 years ago

                  still miss ye George
                  DON'T TELL HIM YOUR NAME PIKE!!

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                  • #54
                    Re: Wrong lyrics

                    I also had problems with 'You're the one that I want' from Grease. Not so much misheard lyrics as not hearing any lyrics at all in the chorus. Thought it was "wadalawa oo aa oowala, oo oo oo". For all I knew they could have been launching into the Mauri Haka.I was pretty young, but old enough to have known better!
                    Last edited by Trickyvee; 06-10-2010, 17:10.
                    1976 Vintage

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                    • #55
                      Re: Wrong lyrics

                      Remember 'Flashdance - What a Feeling' by Irene Cara - about 1980? The chorus contains the lines:

                      Take your passion
                      And make it happen

                      I could never quite decifer that first line, but it sounded to me like 'Take your pants down'.
                      The present is a foreign country. They do things differently here.

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                      • #56
                        Re: Wrong lyrics

                        Originally posted by Richard1978 View Post
                        I used to think REM were singing about "Zoe Wanamaker" in The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.
                        aint that the one where he admits to being a bucks fizz fan as he constantly sings `calling cheryl baker`

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                        • #57
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                          until around 4 weeks ago when i was at a karaoke pub and read the words as someone sang it i had no idea that sylvias mother (in that dr hook song) was called mrs avery i was gobsmacked after all these years of singing "please mrs daydreamer ..........."

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                          • #58
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                            Oh, is it? I thought it was Mrs Apriot - one letter short of Apricot.
                            The present is a foreign country. They do things differently here.

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                            • #59
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                              Yeah it's definitely 'Mrs Avery'!
                              Heaven knows I'm miserable now.

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                              • #60
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                                Speaking of, I watched an online video of Sylvia's Mother once which had lyrics on the bottom.
                                Mrs Avery was captioned as Mrs Zabery.

                                Might I add a little something, I used to think that the ending theme to Only Fools and Horses was Cookie Street not Hookie Street.

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