Misheard song lyrics

[BrisWesty]

Just a funny blog, made me laugh.

http://blogs.theage.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/2006/10/before_alex_the.html

[Ducky]

The best one I have ever heard is from 'Toto - Africa'. Instead of "I bless the rains down in Africa." it was made to be "I ate some brains down in Africa."

:lol:

[PeteyD]

hehe. I think mondogreen is the term! There are some clangers around if you google it.

[Grunt]

Didn't Love Shack by the B52's have everyone trying to work out what she sang in the song. I think it was "Tin Roof Rusty" there were heaps of other interpretations of it.

[BrisWesty]

Here's a few mondegreens I laughed at.

The girl with colitis goes by - Lucy in the sky with Diamonds

Alex the seal - Our lips are sealed

I believe in milkos! - You Sexy thing

"There's a Bathroom on the right...." Bad Moon on the Rise

"Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Tiny Dancer

"...hello Louie, there's a hair in my martini, hello Louie, there's a hair in my martini" - Horror Movie

"..aussie bear, aussie bear, aussie bear!" - I See Red'

"Take your pants down, and make it happen" - Flashdance

"Give me the Beach Boys to soothe my soul....." - Drift Away

Who ya gonna call? Those bastards! - Ghostbusters


"she has better days than nights" - Bette Davis eyes"

"cheap wine and a three-legged goat" - Cheap Wine

"I'm gonna dress you up in Milo" - Gonna dress you up in my love

'His name is Leo and he dances with a man' - Rio (especially funny as my boss' name is Leo)

"A little pity, about Jack and Diane..." Jack & Diane

[McCoy]

As a kid I always thought the chanting bit in Michael Jackson's "Wanna be starting something" song went
Mama said someone stole my moccasins
Mama said someone stole my moccasins
Mama said someone stole my moccasins
Mama said someone stole my moccasins

Some of that blog was bloody funny, next time I'm singing the anthem there might be a few words changed. Honestly how many more people could have posted the "3 legged/headed goat" from Cheap Wine. It lost impact after the first 20 people posted it.

[Iain]

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/index.shtml

Very good :D

[coalesce]

"cheap wine and a three-legged goat" - Cheap Wine

This is stuck in my head. ARGH!

[BrisWesty]

Gee, this got dredged out of the archives!

[Lagerlover]

Why can't I get just one duck...

[coalesce]

Gee, this got dredged out of the archives!

Nothing wrong with a bit of thread mining :)


Why can't I get just one duck...

I had to google that one for a while before I found it. Amazing how many people actually wonder if it is cruel to have just one duck as a pet

[thecollective]

'whooop fat asssss' (whoop there it is)

'she's so f***ing up' (games without frontiers - Peter Gabriel)

[Buzz]

This is stuck in my head. ARGH!

On the Cold Chisel theme it always used to piss me off how many people thought the line was "the last train out of Sydney's almost gone" when the next line is "seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong".

[jimandr]

'whooop fat asssss' (whoop there it is)

'she's so f***ing up' (games without frontiers - Peter Gabriel)

For years and years I tried to decipher the first lines of that song. Then I found out it was in French, so I didn't feel so bad.

This post also draws attention to my favourite variety of mondegreen, the words that sound like swear words, but actually are not.

Peter Gabriel is an offender, in his song Big Time, where he sings that he prays to a big god, but makes that last word sound like the c word.

I didn't mishear this one, but my mate always thought the line I've been fobbed off etc in Handle With Care by the Travelling Wilburys was actually a different f word.

My other one is What Happened To Us by Jessica Mauboy. I always hear the line as "and it's so effing true" just before the chorus.

[Scifisicko]

i remember my 13 year old sister singing
"pipe in the vase-line" for life in the fast lane

[SirTop]

My 4 yo daughter walks around the house all day singing "all sickolay, all sickolay"

Bionce all single ladies, all single ladies

It's quite cool to hear

[gameboy]

my five year old son used to sing+dance PSY's song "Mother Father Gentleman" to his mum, including the lyirics "Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you wet"

[Timbo]

When my three boys were young we watched the Rocky movies together and they thought "Eye of the Tiger" was "I ate the Bible".

I told them it was Eye of the Tiger, but a week later I heard them singing "I ate the Bible (it tasted like Jesus)"????