Mistaken lyrics

Spiritoftheseventies

Letter from Americap The Proclaimer
I spent the evening thinking about
all the blood that flowed away

Across the ocean
A frosty Ocean
to the Second chance
I wonder how it go when it reached the promised land.

..
When you go will you send back a letter from America
take a look luke up the railtrack
from Miami to Canada

0verblood

I can't remember what song it is, but theres a line that goes "You can make me whole again" but it sounds like "you can lick me hole again".

NC27

I left my load in a Galway girl.

Kiith

I used to think 'Let me see that Thong' was 'Let me sing that song', before i knew it was called the thong song.

GirlatdRockShow

Keane's Crystal Ball:
oh..chris de burgh,....chris de burgh.......

when it should have been
oh...crystal ball,....crystal ball..

deman

Not so much a mistaken lyric but it's something we would sing in pubs many years ago.
I must've been drunk, but I'm sober now.
- Roxette
It must have been love, but it's over now.

PacManFan

It took me quite a while before I found out, but apparently Simon & Garfunkel aren't saying:
"And here's to you Mrs. Robinson, she's a slut more than you will know".

MackDeToaster

I'm still convinced one of my fave songs, Men at Work's "Land Down Under" is about zombies, huge women who explode, and a giant man who takes the singers sandwich then gives a bit of it back.

Traveling in a friedup combie
On a hippie trail that's full of zombies
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
But she took me in and made me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women grow and then thunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder
You better run, you better take cover.

I'm back from a man in Brazil
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said do you speaka my language?
He just smiled and gave me a bitta my, sandwich
And said
I come from a land down under
Where windows blow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder
You better run, you better take cover.

Jay D

I love foreign girl friends of mine when they sing along sometimes it does be rightly hilarious. They do be so passionate saying singing and a lot of the time it makes very questionable sense

merengueca

starbelgrade wrote: »

I thought Madonna was being a bit non-PC when she sang 'Last night I dreamt of some dago' in "La Isla Bonita"!

Are they not the words?:o

orourkeda

When Elton John sank " Hold me closer Tiny Dancer " i thought he said " hold me coat sure I'm a chancer"

Ann22

I was working with a fella once and we were talking about the hilarity of getting song words wrong. I said I always thought Neil Diamond was saying 'reverend blue jeans' to which he replied 'yeah!! So did I!! I was picturing a really cool priest'. There was another thread here about wrong song words before and I posted and used this fella's words. Someone came on straight away and said I'd gotten it from King of Queens. I was mortified!:o

Anyway...I thought when Sting was saying 'we are spirits in the material world' he was saying 'upstairs in the material world'...

I thought in 'Karma Chameleon', Boy George was saying 'with golden dreams' instead of 'red gold and green'.
My auntie thought Kirsty McColl was saying 'there's a guy works down the chip shop wears his helmet':D:D:D.

evercloserunion

Golden brown, texture like suds, lays me down, with my mancherums...

bluecatmorgana

A friend of a friend got up at a kareoke and sang Take That you gotta have soap in your hole instead of you gotta have hope in your soul.

Cook!eMonster

i wasn't singing the wrong words, i was creating a remix

GirlOfGlass

The Smiths - A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours.

I've always thought the part at the end said
"So fcuk me, fcuk me, fcuk me
So fcuk me, fcuk me, fcuk me"

But what I figured it really says is
"So phone me, phone me, phone me
So phone me, phone me, phone me"

What a letdown.

Spiritoftheseventies

I've always thought these were some of the lyrics to smells like teen spirit.
"When the lights out
hit the strangers
Here we are now
entertain us"

"Alfie's stupid
And contagious
Here we are now
Imitate us"

Gordon

I thought Bjork was singing about Penis as a Boy.

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oGx2dImE8

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Aussie Sean

Anyone remember Zig and Zag doing this on Ian Dempseys 2FM Breakfast Show in the late 80s? Ten to Eight every morning standing in the kitchen ready to press play and record!!! Even the Mammy did it in case one of us wasn't down on time. Brought a couple of the tapes with me on hols in Corfu in 89 and played them everyday on the beach. Made many a non Irish tourist laugh.

Anyway,one of my favourites was the opening line to Bon Jovis Livin On A Prayer...... "Tommy used to work on the DART"..... still sing it to this day.


Sean

Spiritoftheseventies

Yeah remember that one alright.
"Soul love...this love won't let me go" from U2's 'Angel of Harlem' was translated by them as 'Soul love...this slug won't let me go'.
That was a brilliant slot.

BBDBB

kd lang - Constant Craving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg

1:09 "arseholes to our truth"

Spiritoftheseventies

This is a bit of a naughty one but one day we were singing a hymn christ beside me in school. You know the lines. Christ be beside me, christ be below me etc. One of the kids at the end sang "Christ beside me, never to f*rt" instead of "Never to part".
Priest then said in an indignant tone who sang "never to f*rt". Still cracks me up. True story.

Pyr0

Judas Priest - Wreckless

I always thought a section went "Wreckless ! I'm coming to Devastate !"

Turns out it was actually "Coming at gale force 10"

kwalshe

my lady used to think the chorus in the sawdoctors song was "two injured swans" , i explained that the song is called ,"to win just once", rolleyes indeed

sharpey85

My friend used to think Nelly's Hot in here,,

"Girl I think my butt gettin big" was

"Girl I finger my butt in bed!!!!!!!!

merengueca

JLS song at the moment that starts ;
"Shes the kinda girl you see in magazines, glossy magazines"

Every time I think it should be ".....magazines, dirty magazines"

bonzodog2

My ex used to beleive the line "Don't know what a slide rule is for", from Sam Cooke's "Wonderful world" was "Don't know what it's like or who it's for"

edit: but she probably doesn't know what a slide rule is (or what it's for). Who does these days !

bluto63

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEE_nYehZ8

KnifeWRENCH

Sandi Thom - "I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair" So disappointed when I found out the real words.

Also, my sister always thought that Peter Frampton's "Ooh, baby I love your way" was "Ooh, baby I love your wig".

LenaClaire

The Rusted Root song Send Me On My Way my friend used to think it was Simeon the Whale. She was really disappointed there were no whales in the song.

And then there is the classic - Hold me close now Tony Danza instead of hold me closer tiny dancer.

dr gonzo

Jimi Hendrix likes to kiss this guy in Purple Haze which is of course "kiss the sky"

evercloserunion

dr gonzo wrote: »

Jimi Hendrix likes to kiss this guy in Purple Haze which is of course "kiss the sky"

Really, I always thought it was "piss the sky"

--LOS--

Newwwww Orleans oooo oo ooo ooooooo

Dick Turnip

Genuinely thought that Amy Winehouse's version of The Zutons song went "Why don't you come on home Madeline....."

When of course it should have been "Why don't you come on over Valerie..."

Thought this for a few months when the song came out first on the radio and thought it a bit odd and insensitive as it was released the same summer as she went missing.

My error was only pointed out by a friend as I sang it to myself whilst we were drinking before going to see Mark Ronson live

Ann22

Dick Turnip wrote: »

Genuinely thought that Amy Winehouse's version of The Zutons song went "Why don't you come on home Madeline....."

I thought it was 'why don't you come on over by the way' then I thought 'nah that's not right then I thought it was (and this is embarrassing to admit) 'why don't you come on over via the rail':D:o

kfallon

George Michael and Elton John, thought they were singing, "Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me!".....I used to think, "yeah right, ye'd actually love that!!!"

Dick Turnip

Ann22 wrote: »

I thought it was 'why don't you come on over by the way' then I thought 'nah that's not right then I thought it was (and this is embarrassing to admit) 'why don't you come on over via the rail':D:o

that's just a bizzare mixup

Novella

When I was a kid, I liked to run around my house screaming, "I'm honey, honey, honey, honey, so honey! I'm honey, honey, honey tonight". I always thought honey was a pretty strange thing to be, but I liked the song, and everyone seemed to think it was hilarious.

I recently found out the real lyrics. "I'm horny, horny, horny, horny, so horny! I'm horny, horny, horny tonight."

Ann22

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

I've always thought these were some of the lyrics to smells like teen spirit.
"When the lights out
hit the strangers
Here we are now
entertain us"

"Alfie's stupid
And contagious
Here we are now
Imitate us"

Brilliant! You could write for Weird Al..did you hear his version?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVw-r4Lk1H4

MetzgerMeister

The Prodigy - Breathe

Proper Lyrics:

Come play my game
Psychosomatic, addict insane

I used think:

Die white boy die
Take off the mask, add it to the scene



"Don't cry tomato baby" - I remember this. What song is it from??

Ann22

In Come on Eileen I thought he was saying-
I see through that dress...but I swear I confess
but you're dirty...
ah come on Eileen:D
I had to look it up to know what he was actually saying

My hubbie's cousin thought another bit was...
Come on Eileen, I was never so keen:D.

The correct words are
Come on Eileen, I swear (well he means) At this moment you mean everything,
With you in that dress my thoughts I confess verge on dirty
Ah come on Eileen.

EL_Loco

easy like a sunday morning:

I thought: "leaving you to my room"
actually: "leaving you tomorrow"

I thought: "big star in a bar room"
actually: "begged, stole and I borrowed"

it's the way lionel sings it!

AC/DC

I thought: "dirty deeds, don't come cheap"
actually: "dirty deeds, done dirt cheap"

although I think I improved it really

W.Shakes-Beer

SWIM FULL OF RASHERS ON THE 45!

Elevator

I have a couple of friends from Pakistan, Naseer and Syed, one evening when they got together and listening to music on YouTube Naseer asked if he could hear "halloween"? after many unsuccessful attempts to find it Syed asked if he could sing it, imagine the lolz when he started to sing halloween in the air of Valerie by Amy winehouse!!

another classic Naseer song is "all the single lads, all the single lads!!!" by beyonce!!

pmsl

we'llallhavetea_old

"i'm your biggest fan,
i'll follow you until you love me,
papa papa loves me"



paparazzi -lady gaga. clues in the song title really

bonzodog2

einheisserschre wrote: »

"Don't cry tomato baby" - I remember this. What song is it from??

kissthisguy credits it to Metallica and also The Misfits - Die Die My Darling

markok84

Rock am Ring 2008 there were two German dudes in front of me singing along to RATM's Killing in the name of. They mis-sang "And now you do what they told ya" with "I presume that they told you"..... sing it with a German accent it's hilarious.

iPlop

"Freeedaa wohhhoo , let them know it's christmas time".I used to think Freda was a woman that used to tell starving kids when it' was christmas!I used to say to my mum " Maaahh can she not just tell them ,they need presents and food":o

Ann22

Septic Leper wrote: »

"Freeedaa wohhhoo , let them know it's christmas time".I used to think Freda was a woman that used to tell starving kids when it' was christmas!I used to say to my mum " Maaahh can she not just tell them ,they need presents and food":o

:D:D

My son thought it was 'we will wohhhoooo':D