'Scuse me while I kiss this guy - misheard lyrics

[Pogo]

A famous misunderstood lyric example- Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" was the title of a book compiling misheard song lyrics.

What lyrics have you or someone you know misheard?

I was just thinking of the Gap Band's

"You dropped a bomb on me"

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which I heard as

"You bought the farm on me"

The Four Tops tune "Bernadette":

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-- my brother thought when they hit "Bernadette!" they were singing "Mom and Dad!"

 

[Pogo]

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Simon used some scansions to force-fit the lyrics, always fertile ground for misinterpretation...
(example: "Neath the halo of a-a street lamp" where the word "a" carries to another note)

Later in the song:
"Hear my words that I mi-ight teach you"

I heard as:

"Hear my words I am an angry Jew"

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

So weird you brought up Bernadette because that was is probably my best one. When I was a kid I thought they were saying Burn to Death.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The Black Keys song "Little Black Submarines," when they say "Oh, can it be, the voices calling me" my son thought it was "Oh, can of beans, the toilet's calling me."

 

[rightwinger]

Manfred Mann Blinded by the Light

Dressed up like a douche, another runner in the night

 

[Harry Dresden]

Free in ...All Right Now"....."lets move before they raise the fucking rent".....its the Parking rent....

 

[syrenn]

The national anthum...

when i was little i heard dawnserly light.

what the hell was dawnerly light

 

[Pogo]

The national anthum...

when i was little i heard dawnserly light.

what the hell was dawnerly light

Ah yes, "José can you see..."

^^ my mother's joke.

 

[syrenn]

The national anthum...

when i was little i heard dawnserly light.

what the hell was dawnerly light

Ah yes, "José can you see..."

^^ my mother's joke.

micheal jacksons beat it....





there is a double meaning in that..........

 

[Pogo]

The national anthum...

when i was little i heard dawnserly light.

what the hell was dawnerly light

Ah yes, "José can you see..."

^^ my mother's joke.

micheal jacksons beat it....





there is a double meaning in that..........

Yeah- a pale copy of Devo's "whip it"
-- a song I can't bear since it keeps saying "whip it good" when the adverb would have to be well : -- grammatical shades of Paul McCartney... I guess bad lyrical grammar would be a separate thread.

This joke has to be read aloud -- it won't work writing it:

Q -Why does Michael Jackson like 28 year olds?
A -Because there's twenty of 'em.

 

[Pogo]

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"How could the know the palace that I dreamed
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen"

My brother heard
"Behind the door where my love raised a scream"

However "the company was gay" is original...

 

[daveman]

Mine goes back a looooong time.

When I was little, I always thought there were two Ns in the alphabet, thanks to the song. The first one in the usual place, and the second one:

"...W, X, Y N Z."

 

[Pogo]

The national anthum...

when i was little i heard dawnserly light.

what the hell was dawnerly light

"On dawnser! On prawnser! On Donner and Blitzen!"

 

[Mr. H.]

As kids, we thought Cher was singing "gypsies, tramps, and fleas".

And I swore the Beatles sang "Lady Godiva".

Many years afterwards, I finally figured out that "there's a road in a vista dove" was actually "there's a rose in a fisted glove".

Changed my whole life around. Fer sure.

 

[Mr. H.]

It's a girl my lord on a flattened board.

It's a girl my lord in a flathead Ford.

Took me 15 years to figger that one LOL.

 

[Mr. H.]

Then there's this third movement from Yes's "Tales From Topographic Oceans".

Ilios
Naytheet
Ah Kin
Saule
Tonatiuh
Qurax

I'm like, da fuck? So I ate some acid and all was well.

 

[Mr. H.]

Then I crawled off to the bathroom and had a turd movement...

 

[Pogo]

It's a girl my lord on a flattened board.

It's a girl my lord in a flathead Ford.

Took me 15 years to figger that one LOL.

Hey, that's understandable - I know when I see a hot chick in a truck the first thing I think is, "what's the engine configuration?"

I believe Jon Anderson has confessed to making all that shit up and was going for the sound of the made-up word alone. Not bad, getting royalties for the same thing a two-year old does

 

[Mr Natural]

The oboe may be banned in Cleveland, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

 

[daveman]

It's a girl my lord on a flattened board.

It's a girl my lord in a flathead Ford.

Took me 15 years to figger that one LOL.

Ummm...it's flatbed Ford.