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It's Mondegreen Time At The OK Corral!

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One of the few reasons to read the San Francisco Chronicle was the immensely amusing columnist that they must have hired by mistake. The rest of them were pompous asses, but Jon Carroll was damned clever and funny, and he introduced me to Mondegreens!

But the real origin is an American writer in the 1950s...Sylvia Wright (Yeah; I never heard of her either).

"When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques. One of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen."

The actual words of the ballad are:

Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands,
O where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl of Moray,
And hae laid him on the green

The internet has thousands of examples that are a bit too tortured for my taste. I think the best ones are almost indistinguishable from the correct lyric.

And really...it almost has to be from a song. As tempting as it is to torture lines from novels or poems, the only reason we call them Mondegreens is because Wright's mom was reading the poem. So at the very least they should be confined to spoken or sung lines.

Here are a few of my favorites, and the original lines should be obvious.

"The girl with colitis goes by"

"and there's a wino down the road - I should have stolen Oreos"

"I really don't like him... Doctor Cashpot, Doctor Cashpot"

"I'll be with you darling now; I'll be with you till my skis have dried off.""

And Open Thread....but only after you provide at least one good Mondegreen.

Posted by: CBD at 07:35 PM




Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at August 15, 2020 07:38 PM (C1NyB)

2 What's this?

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:39 PM (OjZpE)

3 Baron mostly because I had no idea what this was about

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:40 PM (OjZpE)

4 Don't go 'round tonight, it's bound to take you life.There's a bathroom, on the right.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 07:40 PM (0klD4)

5 "There's a bathroom on the right"
"'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"

Posted by: Cowboyneal at August 15, 2020 07:41 PM (U2zo0)

6 "Scuse me while I kiss this guy!"

Posted by: Ben Sears at August 15, 2020 07:41 PM (GBcwv)

7 "For witches' stand, one nation under God..."

Just to name one from when I was a kid.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 07:41 PM (/+bwe)

8 Food thread ? But I am not ready yet ....

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2020 07:41 PM (zr5Kq)

9 Just like a water slide. I said, just like water slides. Be my little baby.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at August 15, 2020 07:42 PM (uhPTO)

10 Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:42 PM (NWiLs)

11 "Well I dig a little dog about an hour ago."

Trump's considering pardoning Snowden - what say you?

How about Assange? (haven't seen that one mooted but you gotta figure T's considered it.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 07:42 PM (FtO5h)

12 One that always stuck with me, and it's always been unique to me, is this, a Steve Miller song:

"big old jet airliner."

I always heard (and still do to this day): "We gone tear that light up."

I cannot hear it any other way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 07:42 PM (x8Wzq)

13 It's a family of bears.... It's a family of bears...
By Sly and the Family Stone.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at August 15, 2020 07:43 PM (o38N1)

14 Mom always said don't put beans in your rears.

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 07:43 PM (Tnijr)

15 Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:40 PM (OjZpE)

I refreshed once, because I stupidly read the content. I then paused for a moment, because I have a couple of these, but can't remember the song for the artist. Then I took a chance.

Anyway, one of them is a song about New York, where the female singer declares that it's the place where dreams are made of, but I always heard her singing of wintry tomatoes.

See? Makes no sense. Might as well be Joe Biden, FFS.

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at August 15, 2020 07:43 PM (C1NyB)

16 Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:44 PM (NWiLs)

17


What's that lyric I always hear, old song, sounds like "kill kill kill kill kill"?

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 15, 2020 07:44 PM (d6DSt)

18 The Mondegreens were better back when the fi was lo.

Posted by: klaftern at August 15, 2020 07:44 PM (RuIsu)

19 There is a newer song and can't think of it

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:45 PM (OjZpE)

20 Rolling Stones-

"I'll never be your pizza burning"

Posted by: Miklos du Monde (open 24 hours) at August 15, 2020 07:45 PM (QzkSJ)

21 For me it was the transformers commercial when I was little. I heard "more than meets the eye" as "more than Meetstheeyie" which I thought was super powerful bad robot.

Posted by: Mishdog at August 15, 2020 07:46 PM (UoNvf)

22 Twelve Days of Christmas (as heard by me as a ten-year-old).

And a partridge Ginnepear Tree.

Posted by: Frank Howard at August 15, 2020 07:46 PM (CTZ2I)

23 My daughter used to sing "Puff The Maggot Dragon." Forty years later, I still can't convince her otherwise. . . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at August 15, 2020 07:46 PM (Qf08A)

24 Newww Orleans. Who who are you.

From Who are you by The Who

Posted by: Dempsy at August 15, 2020 07:46 PM (U7VRk)

25 They paved paradise
Put up a fucking lie

Posted by: vmom 2020 sipping Amontillado at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (TivN7)

26 Two of them back-to-back in Sledgehammer:

Show me 'round your fruit cage [fruit case?]

WTF is either of those? I mean, besides a filthy euphemism, I presume.


We'll have fruit as sweet as can be [candy]

Either one works equally well.

Posted by: John Bradley at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (W0OpG)

27 I think Trump should pardon Charlie Manson so he can finish the job on Roman Polaski.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (L9P9s)

28 There's a bathroom on the right.

Reverend Blue Jeans

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (G/mW5)

29 Blinded By the Light

actual lyric: "revved up like a deuce"
what I heard: "wrapped up like a douche"

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (786Ro)

30 For years I thought that the song "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley sang "I'm not talking bout the linen" when they really sang "I'm not talking bout moving in".

The bastards.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (Z+IKu)

31 I remember reading about some one talking about their kid talking about "The Don's Early Song" they sang at school every day. They finally figured out the kid was talking about the Star Spangled Banner.

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (Tnijr)

32 I always heard "Love Rollercoaster" as "No me gusta."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (VWp7G)

33 Modern worship song "Lord I Lift Your Name On High"

You came from heaven to earth, to show the way
From the earth to the cross, my dead toupee*

*my debt to pay

Posted by: ptschett at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (zB+vL)

34 Jose can you see

Posted by: vmom 2020 sipping Amontillado at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (TivN7)

35 Secret Asian Man!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 15, 2020 07:48 PM (ZSK0i)

36 Every Breath You Take

actual lyric: How my poor heart aches
what my friend heard: I'm a pool hall ace

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 07:48 PM (786Ro)

37 "Come together, come together, older bean!"

By the way, does anyone remember an amusing Whoopie Goldberg film in which she tries to decipher the Rolling Stones' "Jumping Jack Flash"? I loved the scene because I still can't understand Mick Jagger's musical blather.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 07:48 PM (/+bwe)

38 34 Jose can you see
Posted by: vmom 2020 sipping Amontillado at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (TivN7)

By the donzer lee light!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:48 PM (NWiLs)

39 Carry on my wayward son.There'll be days when you are dumb.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 07:48 PM (0klD4)

40 how can you have any pudding if you don't beat your meat. I had to force myself not to hear this.

Posted by: Louis Reinitz at August 15, 2020 07:49 PM (iHEnm)

41 "When the moon hits your eye
like a big piece of pie
that's amore"

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2020 07:49 PM (arJlL)

42
The Immigrant Song. I thought it was whispered tales of Thor (being about Norsemen) but it's whisper tales of gore.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 07:49 PM (ICseh)

43 Mairzy dotes and dozy dotes and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

This may not count since it's intentional on the part of the songwriter.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:49 PM (WjszL)

44 I'm still working on this whole "Does eat oats" thing.

Posted by: Miklos "Bing" Crosby at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (QzkSJ)

45 F*** the NASCAR instead of Rock The Casbah

Posted by: Abzod at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (dHzE8)

46 Dang, should've read the comments. Insomniac heard the same lyric as me but posted first

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (786Ro)

47 When you swim in-a the sea,
And an eel bites-a your knee,
That's a moray.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (WjszL)

48 I can't listen to "My Sharona" without hearing Cheech singing "My Scrotum".

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (Tnijr)

49 Fogarty's west coast by way of the bayou mumbo-jumbo is full of them.

Before I knew the title, I was convinced "Wrote a Song For Everyone" went:

Rush on for everyone,
Rush on for truth.
Rush on for everyone
And I couldn't even talk to you.

I still swear that's what he's singing.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 07:50 PM (FtO5h)

50 Does = plural of doe.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (WjszL)

51 "When the stars make you drool just like a pasta e fazool, that's amore"


wait, those are actual lyrics

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (zr5Kq)

52 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.

"Later we'll have some f**kin' pie"

Don't believe the words on the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3HJgCcSUqQ

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (hku12)

53 Scuz me while I kiss this guy

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (OjZpE)

54 When you swim in the creek, and an eel bites your cheek......that's a moray.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (0klD4)

55 Rolling Stones-

"I'll never be your pizza burning"
Posted by: Miklos du Monde (open 24 hours) at August 15, 2020 07:45 PM (QzkSJ)

"I'll never be your beastly virgin"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (x8Wzq)

56 The first time I heard AC/DC's "Givin' the Dog a Bone," I swear I thought they were singing, "Gimme some alcohol."

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (WjszL)

57 I thought " Don't it my brown eyes blue" sounded something like " Donuts make my brown eyes blue".

Posted by: dantesed at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (88xKn)

58 Also, according to my mother I was a big fan of the "Sergeant Pepperoni" album.

And lord only knows what words I used when signing along to "Sodomy" from the HAIR album. 'Cause sing along I did, and "fellatio", "cunnilingus", and "pederasty" thankfully did not have occasion to be in my 4-year-old vocabulary.

Posted by: John Bradley at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (W0OpG)

59 A New Zealander man
With a permanent tan
That's a Maori.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (WjszL)

60 But it's modest of me to be the king of pain

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (G/mW5)

61 Actual lyric that makes little sende:
She's a brick house

Posted by: vmom 2020 sipping Amontillado at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (TivN7)

62 Oh say can you see by the dawnzer lee light

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (Z/jzm)

63 Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (L9P9s)


trollin', trollin', trollin'
keep those lies a rollin'
assless chaps for you man,
RAWHIDE!

Posted by: Rowdy Yates at August 15, 2020 07:52 PM (sy5kK)

64 When I was very young I thought it was the Star Spangled Banana. What's a spangle?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (9TdxA)

65 Early REM:

Argle bargle floogin flagle,
Wastin' time, standing still.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (hku12)

66 16 Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:44 PM

Yours is cleaner than mine. I thought it was "Wrapped up like a deuce, you know I rode her in the night."

Also, one of my uncles banned a certain song that my older cousins really liked: "Play that fuckin' music, white boy!"

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (/+bwe)

67 30 "I'm not talking bout the linen" when they really sang "I'm not talking bout moving in".

On that one, I've kind of wondered if they deliberately slurred that line so as not to jeopardize AM Radio play.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (FtO5h)

68 51 "When the stars make you drool just like a pasta e fazool, that's amore"


wait, those are actual lyrics
Posted by: runner at August 15, 2020 07:51 PM (zr5Kq)

I always pronounce "fagioli" fag-ee-OH-lee. Just because I have the maturity of a ten-year-old.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (NWiLs)

69 Blinded by the light.
Wrapped up like a douche ....

And then I stopped listening.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (WjszL)

70 When he was young, my older brother could not be convinced that the Salvation Army was not the Fosferry Army.

Posted by: F at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (GkUth)

71 "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pushups!
How can you have any pushups if you don't eat your meat?!"

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (zr5Kq)

72 Not sure what a brick house is, but I know that a gal who's built like a brick shithouse is a hottie. . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (Qf08A)

73 Scuse me, while I kiss this fly!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (Dc2NZ)

74 I thought this was going to me a movie thread. I'm watching "Night Of The Bloody Apes" and it's got boobies so I give it an automatic 5.

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (Tnijr)

75 This Ain't No Fruity Luau instead of This Ain't No Foolin' Around

Posted by: Abzod at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (dHzE8)

76 A New Zealander man
With a permanent tan
That's a Maori.
Posted by: Jim S.


Tattoos up and down
As he walks around town
That'a a Maori

Posted by: Miklos, unanticipatedly Antipodean at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (QzkSJ)

77 "Now don't you wait, or hesitate.
Let's move before they raise the fucking rent."

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (Z4rgH)

78 Once I like a song I do look up what the lyrics are, have to say listening to Post Modern Jukebox I hear song lyrics for the first time.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (OjZpE)

79 Early REM:

Argle bargle floogin flagle,
Wastin' time, standing still.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2020 07:53 PM (hku12)


Dammit. "Sitting still." I bungled one of the few words that are clear.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (hku12)

80 Christine in clover, over and over.

Tommy James and the Shondells

I never figured out who Christine was supposed to be. The song was terrible anyway.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 07:55 PM (7EjX1)

81 'Scuse me while I piss the sky.

Posted by: CallsignWT1 at August 15, 2020 07:55 PM (LEikZ)

82 I think Trump should pardon Charlie Manson so he can finish the job on Roman Polaski.
Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM


Presidential pardons are a powerful thing, but I don't think Satan recognizes them.

Also Charlie was convicted on state crimes, not federal.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2020 07:55 PM (d/5jB)

83 30 For years I thought that the song "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley sang "I'm not talking bout the linen" when they really sang "I'm not talking bout moving in".

The bastards.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (Z+IKu)

I thought it was "I'm not talkin' 'bout Corellians"!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 15, 2020 07:55 PM (Dc2NZ)

84 If I really sat down and concentrated, I could come up with a hundred cases of this. Really, I was the one among my friends who was constantly misunderstanding song lyrics. But right now, my mind is on other things.

Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:56 PM (WjszL)

85 I always pronounce "fagioli" fag-ee-OH-lee. Just because I have the maturity of a ten-year-old.

Like a lot of things in life, it's more fun that way...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 15, 2020 07:56 PM (ZSK0i)

86 When he was young, my older brother could not be convinced that the Salvation Army was not the Fosferry Army.

Posted by: F at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (GkUth)


The White Stripes song Seven Nation Army was because as a kid Jack White thought the Salvation Army was the Seven Nation Army or so the story goes

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 07:56 PM (ICseh)

87 Dun da dun dun da dun da, something some thing Bonanza- because lyrics suck.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 07:56 PM (g5DWE)

88 Just this afternoon, I was listening to Black Crowes, "Can I have some Lemonade"

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 07:57 PM (V2Yro)

89 What's another name for God?

Howard.

??

Our Father, who art in heaven, Howard be thy name.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 07:57 PM (x8Wzq)

90 Well since she put me down
I've got owls puking in my bed.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2020 07:57 PM (d/5jB)

91 "We are spareribs, in a material world."

Percy Sledge's best advice,

"Take Time to Gnaw her"

Eddie Money the prophet -

"Toothpicks to paradise..."

Posted by: Name redacted at August 15, 2020 07:57 PM (Eqfwj)

92 I guess the Fishing Thread is the one that got away.....

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2020 07:57 PM (arJlL)

93 Dun da dun dun da dun da, something some thing Bonanza- because lyrics suck.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 07:56 PM (g5DWE)

This is what I hear a lot of times too !

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (zr5Kq)

94 Nobody gets too much hair in their armpits...

Nobody gets too much Heaven no more its..

Posted by: InCali at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (9AFWN)

95 When he was young, my older brother could not be convinced that the Salvation Army was not the Fosferry Army.
Posted by: F at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM

One of my favorite White Stripes songs is named after Jack White's misunderstanding: Seven Nation Army.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (/+bwe)

96 Dirty deeds and they're done with sheep

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (9TdxA)

97 Louie, lou way, Oh baby, away down low.
Every night at ten I lay her again,
Fvck your girl all kinds of ways.

That's how we wanted to hear it anyway.

Posted by: dartist at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (+ya+t)

98
Yooooooour my... brown eyed squirrel!

Sha la la la la la la la la la te da....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (EGyGV)

99

The Rolling Stones song Live With Me. You say the meat I eat for dinner must be hung up for week. I thought it was I must be hungry for a week. But then again who can understand half of what Jagger is singing?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (ICseh)

100 One of the old favorite Baptist hymns was known by generations of children as "Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear".

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (V2Yro)

101 Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light??

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (EMi53)

102 Then there was "Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer, who is a rock and roll god. The McCoys and all that.

When he sang "I'm gettin' high all the time, hope you all are too, C'mon little closer, gonna do it to you" I heard
"C'mon little pussy, gonna do it to you".

Yeah. Rick got me on that one.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (Z+IKu)

103 Probably the ultimate Mondegreen: Louie, Louie. Nine tenths of the lyrics are garbled.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (7EjX1)

104 'Scuse me, while I sniff this guy

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (BgMrQ)

105 My anus will face it you're addicted to love...

Posted by: InCali at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (9AFWN)

106 I'm started the movie Wishmaster, and Ted Raimi just got squashed in a work-related curse-related accident. I'm on a 90s horror kick.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (LxTcq)

107 Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to take a piss

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (arJlL)

108
Come on..the king has always been...

"Hang on, Snoopy, Snoopy hang on!"


I was 40 years old before I figured it out it was Sloopy.

As Joe Biden says...."Come on! Man!"

Posted by: Sapwolf at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (nuv3n)

109 "And the girl in the corner said boy I wanna ball ya"

It's offically "warn ya" but I always swore he garbled the dirty version to get away with it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:00 PM (FtO5h)

110 Adam Ant, Goody Two Shoes, I always heard "subtle innuendo follows" as "something in you went on furlough"

Posted by: ArrMatey at August 15, 2020 08:00 PM (fvE8v)

111 Well.

As I go downstairs to do fry cook duty, I will listen to my favorite MixTape of Leonard Nimoy's and William Shatner's Greatest Hits.

Dinner gonna be good.

Posted by: Miklos, heatin' it up at August 15, 2020 08:00 PM (QzkSJ)

112 One thing along these lines I remember:

Nissan had an ad series with a kid who allegedly said "Zoom, Zoom."

I always heard "Sub, Sub." I was simply unable to hear the actual Zoom-Zoom.

No idea why, except maybe too many thrash metal concerts.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:01 PM (x8Wzq)

113 Probably the ultimate Mondegreen: Louie, Louie. Nine tenths of the lyrics are garbled.
Posted by: JTB

"I said a Louie Louie
Oh OOhhhhh
Your grandmother blows"

Posted by: JT at August 15, 2020 08:01 PM (arJlL)

114 Louie, Louie.

I felt my bone in her hair.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:01 PM (FtO5h)

115

I think Trump should pardon Charlie Manson so he can finish the job on Roman Polaski.
Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM

Presidential pardons are a powerful thing, but I don't think Satan recognizes them.

Also Charlie was convicted on state crimes, not federal.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 15, 2020 07:55 PM (d/5jB)





Also, Chuck M is dead. And Zombie Chuck might have a tough time catching a flight to France....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 15, 2020 08:01 PM (EGyGV)

116 My cousin sang Gloria In Excelsis Deo as gloria in a Chelsea stable.

Posted by: Pelosi's Filthy Fingers at August 15, 2020 08:01 PM (a1s18)

117 Jim S
2 43- Mairzy Doats, Mammy Eromero used to sing that song to me when I was a pup.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (XhWtx)

118 Come on Baby, Let the good times roll

Come on Baby , Let me steal your soul.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (g5DWE)

119 You see the sky. The sky's in love with you.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (LBiyC)

120 Gotta admit, if I'm in the car alone and that song comes on the radio?

I'm not talking about movin in
and I don't want to change your life
But there a warm wind blowin, my balls around
and I'd really like to fk you tonight...

Yup, perverted.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (NgKpN)

121 Probably the ultimate Mondegreen: Louie, Louie. Nine tenths of the lyrics are garbled.
Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 07:58 PM (7EjX1)

Oh Louie Lou Eye, oh no, colon blow! yeah, yeah, yeah!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (x8Wzq)

122 You want misheard song lyrics, just listen to Van Morrison. I can barely make out a word he's singing.

Posted by: dantesed at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (88xKn)

123 30 For years I thought that the song "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley sang "I'm not talking bout the linen" when they really sang "I'm not talking bout moving in".
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 07:47 PM (Z+IKu)

I always thought the lyric was "I'm not talking bout millennium." As in, I'm not talking about a millennium together, just this one night."

And I didn't know those were not the words until this moment.

Posted by: sinalco at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (yODqO)

124
Wake me up before you go go
Get away from me you hairy homo

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (Tnijr)

125 "I know that the hot dogs go onnnnnnnnnnnnnn...."

Posted by: sinalco at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (yODqO)

126 If you like cheese enchiladas! (Pina coladas).

My mom was driving me to gymnastics practice and we were listening to the radio. It was a call in request show and a lady called in wanting the hear , and she sang...."if you like cheese enchiladas..."


My mom almost drove off the road we were laughing so hard.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (U2p+3)

127 Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (cqGlW)

128
Wake me up before you go go
Get away from me you hairy homo
Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 08:03 PM (Tnijr)






Okay. THAT one should have been obviously wrong....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (EGyGV)

129 Many a child, including mine, "...and to the republic, for witches stand, one nation, under God..."

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (T2NR8)

130 A mondegreen that finally was accepted as part of the lyrics was the inclusion of "Bruce" in ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down". It was originally just a made up sound to fit the music (a dumb thing to do) but once *everyone* believed it was Bruce, Jeff Lynn gave in and said "okay, it can be Bruce."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (V2Yro)

131 Gloria...In eggshells this day-o.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (0klD4)

132 129 Many a child, including mine, "...and to the republic, for witches stand, one nation, under God..."
Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (T2NR

That's a good match for the line in the Lord's Prayer, "And Deliver us from Eagles".

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (V2Yro)

133 "I always thought the lyric was "I'm not talking bout millennium." As in, I'm not talking about a millennium together, just this one night."



Me too! LoL

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (G/mW5)

134 Pug: I think that was a Mazda commercial. . . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (Qf08A)

135 Inagadadavida

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (Z/jzm)

136 ..... And to the republic, for Richard Stands....

Posted by: Appycay at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (8G3+Q)

137 Jeff Lynn gave in and said "okay, it can be Bruce."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (V2Yro)

he's a fibber. It was always Bruuuce!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (x8Wzq)

138 Hold me closer Tony Danza.

Posted by: IHateScrewal at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (J/Tnj)

139 iI'm started the movie Wishmaster, and Ted Raimi just got squashed in a work-related curse-related accident. I'm on a 90s horror kick.

Well, it's a 1986 film but it has Tawny Kitaen in it and it starts out with a construction-yard work-related accident:

Witchboard

I think you might enjoy it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (ZSK0i)

140 Pug: I think that was a Mazda commercial. . . .
Posted by: FIIGMO at August 15, 2020 08:06 PM (Qf08A)

Oops. Yer right.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

141 That's a good match for the line in the Lord's Prayer, "And Deliver us from Eagles".

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (V2Yro)

++++
LOL.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:07 PM (T2NR8)

142 Hold me closer, Tony Danza

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:07 PM (U2p+3)

143 "Haul a bathtub just to please you."

-Kim Carnes

Posted by: SC Math Teacher at August 15, 2020 08:07 PM (Rv6oG)

144 In Gilbert O'Sullivan's melancholy "Alone Again, Naturally", there is a line, "as if to knock me down, reality came around." As a kid, I thought this was ""as if to knock me down, my allergies came around." I felt an affinity for the song because I had bad allergies, and they would indeed "come around" and "knock me down." I think I wanted the song to be saying that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (H8QX8)

145 Actual lyric that makes little sende:
She's a brick house
Posted by: vmom 2020 sipping Amontillado

Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (+y/Ru)

146 When I was a kid, I thought the theme song to the Brady Bunch said, "But to screw, must somehow form a family...". Seemed logical enough.

Posted by: IHateScrewal at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (J/Tnj)

147 Oh, I wanna dance with somebody,With somebody who's ugly

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (0klD4)

148 John Bradley @ 58, fellatio, cunnilingus, and other suchlike words are actually in the stage play 'Hair' by Rado and Ragni.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (XhWtx)

149 She's got lions eyes.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:09 PM (g5DWE)

150 133
"I always thought the lyric was "I'm not talking bout millennium." As
in, I'm not talking about a millennium together, just this one night."







Me too! LoL

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (G/mW5)

++++
Make it three.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:09 PM (T2NR8)

151 "And Deliver us from Eagles".
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (V2Yro)

I've had a really bad day, and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

Posted by: The Dude at August 15, 2020 08:09 PM (NWiLs)

152

Balls to your partner
Arse against the wall

Oh wait, that IS the lyrics

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 15, 2020 08:09 PM (d6DSt)

153 Oh...speaking of ELO!

For decades I thought the line in "Can't Get it Out of My Head" went "Walking on a wave she came..."

Then I got the CD with lyric sheet and discovered it's: "Walking on a wave's chicane..."

Which is a terrific, if the only, use of the word "chicane" in a rock song.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (FtO5h)

154
"...and love lies bleedin' in my hand
oh, it kills me, the things I do with another man"

Posted by: Elton John at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (1kgO6)

155 "Everything's f#cked"

instead of "Eminence front"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (bDqIh)

156 I had a friend who swore the words to the song were "Aunt Jemima was a bullfrog"

Posted by: The Walkimg Dude at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (cCxiu)

157
Show 'em your bucket's strong as your bite
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (786Ro)

158 147 Oh, I wanna dance with somebody,With somebody who's ugly
Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:08 PM (0klD4)

Yeah, I'm not dancing with you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 08:11 PM (NWiLs)

159 131 Gloria...In eggshells this day-o.
Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:04 PM (0klD4)

If you are singing that lyric, the best trick to remembering the proper Latin pronunciation is "In eggshell sis day-o" (In Excelsis Deo)

and a note for purists, that's probably medieval church latin, which is different than classical latin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:11 PM (V2Yro)

160 No federal pardon for Charlie? What about Sirhan Sirhan? Plenty of Kennedy shitbirds around to bag.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 15, 2020 08:11 PM (L9P9s)

161 Lizzy I thought it was "amble and struts". Yours is better

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 08:11 PM (786Ro)

162 Momma don't take my corn pone
Momma don't take my corn pone
Momma don't take my corn pone
Away

Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2020 08:12 PM (8Gw3M)

163 156
I had a friend who swore the words to the song were "Aunt Jemima was a bullfrog"


Posted by: The Walk___ Dude at August 15, 2020 08:10 PM (cCxiu)

++++
I think I am going to laugh myself silly.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:12 PM (T2NR8)

164 The chair is not my son.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:12 PM (FtO5h)

165 I can't think of any.

Posted by: SMH at August 15, 2020 08:12 PM (RU4sa)

166 If you are singing that lyric, the best trick to remembering the proper Latin pronunciation is "In eggshell sis day-o" (In Excelsis Deo)

and a note for purists, that's probably medieval church latin, which is different than classical latin.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 08:11 PM (V2Yro)

Closer to "in eggs chell sees day-o" or at least that's how I learned it way back when. Latin wasn't a dead language yet.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 08:13 PM (NWiLs)

167 >>Lizzy I thought it was "amble and struts". Yours is better

It kinda works, right?
I discovered my error after seeing the music video. Oops!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2020 08:13 PM (bDqIh)

168 Then I saw her face, now I'm gonna leave her

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 15, 2020 08:13 PM (Z/jzm)

169 *wanders off*

Posted by: SMH at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (RU4sa)

170 Another long running debate we had was the chorus at the end of " I am the Walrus" by the Beatles...
1.) Everybody Walrus2.) Everybody smoke dope
3.) Everybody's F##ked up (my choice)

Posted by: The Walkimg Dude at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (cCxiu)

171 I think I'm in love...and my mom's wakin's up.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (0klD4)

172 Sugar Magnolia: "Plays my chicken when I speed,"

Posted by: Bob at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (RtNHs)

173 guantanamera by Los Lobos which translates woman from Guantanamo. My son and I always sang it as one ton tomato. Some Hispanic friends heard me singing ut and they couldn't stop laughing.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...privilege this MoFo's at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (tcCYw)

174 106 I'm started the movie Wishmaster, and Ted Raimi just got squashed in a work-related curse-related accident. I'm on a 90s horror kick.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 15, 2020 07:59 PM (LxTcq)
--

Ted Raimi got his head squished in "Darkman" too, didn't he? Damn, Sam...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 15, 2020 08:14 PM (Dc2NZ)

175 *Wakin'* (Eddie Money)

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:15 PM (0klD4)

176 Com delight an me wan go home

Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2020 08:15 PM (8Gw3M)

177
when it came out, one of the kids in the neighborhood thought Jeff Lynn of ELO was saying "strain my dick" in the chorus of "Strange Magic"

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2020 08:16 PM (1kgO6)

178 o/~ Bingo Jed had a light on

Posted by: tb24601 at August 15, 2020 08:16 PM (Zg8La)

179 Synchronicity 2 was a song that I had no idea what Sting was saying.

In fact, nobody did.

Posted by: dantesed at August 15, 2020 08:16 PM (88xKn)

180 Yes, Leave it (90125):

"Gonna carp the par, gonna drive real slow.

Up town, the diggety dog, better lay your claim."

I have no clue what the real line was. Jon Anderson was always hard for me to understand.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:16 PM (x8Wzq)

181 I can't remember all the misheard lyrics I had for Squeeze's "Pulling Muscles from a Shell", but yeah, that one took reading the lyrics on the record cover/sleeve for just about every other line. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2020 08:16 PM (bDqIh)

182 You vomit up plants and your daddy does Rocky Road

Posted by: Simon Jester at August 15, 2020 08:17 PM (Gp8Oo)

183 Deigo, dei-ei-ei-go
Deigo come and me wan' go home

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2020 08:17 PM (+y/Ru)

184 Someone listen to the Cult's "She sells Sanctuary". Then tell me what he's saying.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 15, 2020 08:17 PM (YxbMn)

185 Heh, "Mussels"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 15, 2020 08:18 PM (bDqIh)

186 Bob Dylan must be a rich vein of these.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2020 08:19 PM (+y/Ru)

187 Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at August 15, 2020 08:20 PM (zcv/s)

188 one ton tomato. Some Hispanic friends heard me singing ut and they couldn't stop laughing.
Posted by: Sock Monkey.


The South Carolina pronunciation (enunciation?) is "one ton o' 'maters..."

Posted by: Miklos, dinner delayed at August 15, 2020 08:20 PM (QzkSJ)

189 I always heard "If you like Pinochle ladas", even though I had no idea what that would mean. But I had no idea what a Pina Colada wasback then either...

Posted by: Mookie at August 15, 2020 08:20 PM (3vIkC)

190 "I always thought the lyric was "I'm not talking bout millennium." As
in, I'm not talking about a millennium together, just this one night."







Me too! LoL

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 08:05 PM (G/mW5)

++++
Make it three.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:09 PM (T2NR

FOUR!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 08:20 PM (/+bwe)

191 Pulling more shells from Michelle

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 15, 2020 08:20 PM (9TdxA)

192 Steven Tyler always confuzzled me. Great front man, great voice, but was obviously a student of Frontier gibberish. I love songs like Uncle Salty, but half the lines are garbled rubbish.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:21 PM (x8Wzq)

193 184 Someone listen to the Cult's "She sells Sanctuary". Then tell me what he's saying.

Or "Snow Removal Machine."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:21 PM (FtO5h)

194 Everybody love wanda cause wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:21 PM (g5DWE)

195 And he's cute
In his mohair suit
And he keeps his f**kin spoon up Cindy Lou?

Posted by: Not the Boy from Manhattan Transfer at August 15, 2020 08:21 PM (SnmhH)

196 A co-worker told me that her daughter used to sing "Feliz Navidad" with great gusto, except it was "At least Mommy died!"

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 08:22 PM (/+bwe)

197 "She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit"

Elton John

Posted by: Paddy O'Furnijur at August 15, 2020 08:22 PM (bNh4G)

198 Pulling muscles for Michelle.

Posted by: F. Lee Bailout at August 15, 2020 08:22 PM (0klD4)

199 Biden commercial all about listening to science and 3 month mandatory mask wearing

And it wasn't a Halloween commercial

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 08:22 PM (OjZpE)

200 The love crack is a little old place where we can get together...

Posted by: b52s at August 15, 2020 08:23 PM (l3+k2)

201 Jagger mumbled the lyrics so people would think they were dirty.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 15, 2020 08:23 PM (9TdxA)

202 I believe in Malcolm! There you go, you sexy thing.

You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocokate

Posted by: Scanner Dan at August 15, 2020 08:23 PM (CfI1q)

203 Brown Sugar....I laid her in a far exempted Memphis

?

Posted by: pep at August 15, 2020 08:23 PM (v16oJ)

204 ELO...insufficient taters on the vine.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 15, 2020 08:24 PM (9dzlp)

205 OK, I passed the test, can I bitch about something else now?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:24 PM (g5DWE)

206 My husband (Navy veteran) used to hear the line "G-d damn it lady, you know I ain't lyin' to ya" in Van Halen's "Running with the Devil" as "G-d damn the Navy and all you lifers".

Posted by: Secret Square at August 15, 2020 08:25 PM (9WuX0)

207 Canada! Canada-a-a-a, Canada!

Posted by: vanhalen at August 15, 2020 08:25 PM (l3+k2)

208 One I learned from my brother that I still hear today, from the 1975 one hit wonder band, Pilot: "Oh oh oh, it's my dick"....

Posted by: Mookie at August 15, 2020 08:25 PM (3vIkC)

209 If you like penis alotta!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 15, 2020 08:25 PM (9dzlp)

210 Yes, Ben Had. Bitch away.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (Dc2NZ)

211 one ton tomato.

-
Let's leave Stacy Abrams out of this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (+y/Ru)

212 Rebel, Rebel: "Attack your things, you put them on."

As a kid, I thought she was like shredding her clothes, to look punk, or something.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (FtO5h)

213 I still wonder who'll stop Lorraine.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (t+qrx)

214 OK, I passed the test, can I bitch about something else now?
Posted by: Ben Had

*quietly hands "Get out of Bitch Free" card to Ben Had

Posted by: Miklos, not thinking this is cheating at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (QzkSJ)

215 .

Spirits in the Material World by Sting / Police...
I misheard at least half of the lines on that one....

"I swear it's immaterial"....

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (G/mW5)

216 There's a Jew kid in town...

Posted by: eagles at August 15, 2020 08:26 PM (l3+k2)

217
She's got electric boobs,
A mole that's true,
Ya know I read it in a maga-za-heeen....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (s2VJv)

218 Hi Eris, I was just kidding.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (g5DWE)

219 I still wonder who'll stop Lorraine.
Posted by: hogmartin


I thought it was "Who stopped the drain".

Posted by: Miklos, possibly in error at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (QzkSJ)

220

Hey Mlii,
If you're watching, say hi.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (G3Kkn)

221 There's a bathroom on the right.

Posted by: William White at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (5FRbo)

222 Actual lyric:

"My mother and my brothers used to breath in clean air
And dreaming I'm a doctor"

What I heard

" My mother and my brothers used to beat me in bed
And tell me I'm adopted"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (OeBYn)

223 A co-worker told me that her daughter used to sing "Feliz Navidad" with great gusto, except it was "At least Mommy died!"
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Police took my dad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 15, 2020 08:28 PM (+y/Ru)

224 Carry a laser down the road that I must follow.- Mr Mister

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:28 PM (SaOtR)

225 You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hundred children just crapped in the field

Posted by: pep at August 15, 2020 08:28 PM (v16oJ)

226
Crept up like a douche,
With a boner and a knife

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 08:29 PM (cj+ir)

227 Actual lyric:
"I felt sure we had enough"

What I heard:
" I felt shoved behind a nun"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 15, 2020 08:29 PM (OeBYn)

228 When i was a kid, I sang along with Paul Revere and the Raiders (Mark Lindsay) singing, "Haaair is GOLDEN...." instead of "Arrrr-i-zona...."

Posted by: goatexchange at August 15, 2020 08:29 PM (cBe6V)

229
If there's a bustle in a hedgehog
don't be alone now,
It's just a sprinkling from the bak'ry...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:29 PM (s2VJv)

230 My siblings and I *all* sang "Four hundred kids." With great gusto! We did get the crops in the field part.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (FtO5h)

231 OK, I passed the test, can I bitch about something else now?
Posted by: Ben Had


I accuse you of practicing the infernal art of Bitchcraft!

Posted by: Deputy Governor Danforth at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (ZSK0i)

232 Not lyrics but wasn't this the schtick for Emily Litella (sp?) on Laugh-In? I still smile about her confusion with violins in the street.

Never mind.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (7EjX1)

233 Round John Virgin

Posted by: Tim Plett at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (lgiXo)

234
SCUSE ME... WHILE I KISS THIS GUY...

*air guitar*

Posted by: fixerupper at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (nw6Hr)

235 233 Her knees knobby knock

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (ONvIw)

236 From Killer Queen:

She keeps 'em always shined up in a pretty cabinet

and

Went down to Asia Minor

Posted by: Looper at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (NbIx4)

237 Emily Litella was SNL. She used to call Chevy Chase "Cheddar" LOL

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (FtO5h)

238 Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Posted by: Tim Plett at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (lgiXo)

239 "Take a night flight
Have a nice flight" - Perfume

Sounds like
"Eggs on the side
Bacon inside"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (OeBYn)

240 OK, I passed the test, can I bitch about something else now?
Posted by: Ben Had

I accuse you of practicing the infernal art of Bitchcraft!
Posted by: Deputy Governor Danforth at August 15, 2020 08:30 PM (ZSK0i)

He's a bitch howwwwse. He's mighty, mighty, gotta garble it on...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (/+bwe)

241 Punnin onna schlizzzz!

Posted by: Fronkensteens Monster at August 15, 2020 08:31 PM (9dzlp)

242 Music, so slim chance for me, but, aha:

Jesus is just a rat with me
Jesus is just a rat, oh yeah

(Doobie Brothers)

Didn't check to see if this one has been used.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (OTzUX)

243 236
From Killer Queen:



She keeps 'em always shined up in a pretty cabinet


Yeah, that one took me awhile.

Posted by: pep at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (v16oJ)

244 Sister Golda Meir Delight.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (XhWtx)

245 The Dream Police, they come to pee in my bed.
I want to kiss your dog, Rover.
And to my eight year old ear Mick Jagger sang, "I can't get no ke-e-et-chup on my fries, on my fries, on my fries, on my fries...

Posted by: Jamkev at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (pznFB)

246 "The Jew will come to you at last"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (x8Wzq)

247 69 Blinded by the light.
Wrapped up like a douche ....

And then I stopped listening.
Posted by: Jim S. at August 15, 2020 07:54 PM (WjszL)


That's how I always heard it.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 08:32 PM (TdMsT)

248 142 Hold me closer, Tony Danza
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:07 PM (U2p+3)


Same song, I thought the next line was,

"Lay me down and she's so blannen..." Whatever the hell "blannen" is.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (s2VJv)

249 "Stand on the rug, stand on the rug!"

Posted by: Sir PauL McCartney at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (cTuj5)

250 Way past 100

And it is Sturgis time:

shorturl.at/gkU58

Eff the traitors!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (eTZoJ)

251 Hmmm, looks like open thread, and nothing but this music stuff.

Sad!

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (OTzUX)

252 But aren't many sweet dreams made of cheese?

Think about it.

Posted by: Miklos "Larry" Kroger, who did manage to buy some pot at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (QzkSJ)

253 Almost parrot eyes!
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see
Forever in your eyes,
Parrot eyes!

Posted by: starboardhelm at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (yy4fX)

254 Remember the Supremes' "Come See About Me?" My brother and I thought it was "Don't Pee Above Me." And we loved singing it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (sWM8x)

255 Lay down sally I dont need a beer right now

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (9dzlp)

256 See That Girl, Watch Her Scream, Kicking the Dancing Queen

Posted by: fixerupper at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (nw6Hr)

257

It's either "schmatta, schmatta, schmatta" or "schvartze, schvartze, schvartze" on the Stones' song Shattered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (s2VJv)

258 Catechism

Q: Who is God?
A: God is the string bean who made all things.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (sGotD)

259 AM DJ's had a bit on this in Charlotte. Called their skit "chronic lyricosis".

Posted by: Agitator at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (y/e6R)

260
Caribou Queen
Now we're staring at the same thing
And our hearts the beat as one
No more love on the run

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 08:34 PM (cj+ir)

261 237 Oops! Yeah, SNL. About the last time it was funny.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 08:35 PM (7EjX1)

262 And it is Sturgis time:

shorturl.at/gkU58

Eff the traitors!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


Will say again-

Trump should fly to Sturgis and Federally Deputize Every Damn Body

Posted by: Miklos2029! at August 15, 2020 08:35 PM (QzkSJ)

263 11 year old me had no idea that "schmatta" was a Yiddish word. I thought it was just nonesense syllables that sounded like "shattered."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:35 PM (FtO5h)

264
Well you're untanned youth, that's the truth, with your coat full of egrets, you're dirty sweet and you're my girl...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:35 PM (s2VJv)

265 Omg. I'm crying. Y'all are on it.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (U2p+3)

266 I am the eggman
I am the eggman
I am the walrus
Coo coo cachoo


What?

Posted by: pep at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (v16oJ)

267 Another garbled mess I never knew what the hell he was saying was "10th Avenue Freeze Out" by The Boss.

The Boss my ass. Bruce can fuck up some lyrics.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (Z+IKu)

268 "Hold me closer, Tony Danzaaaa....."

Posted by: LaserD at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (czLDv)

269 I always heard Cobain in Teen Spirit

'With the lights out, it's less dangerous'

as

And we have no, mashed potatoes

Posted by: freaked at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (Tnijr)

270 My brother and I thought it was "Don't Pee Above Me." And we loved singing it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis


Is not for True?

Posted by: Asparagus eating Russian prostitutes at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (QzkSJ)

271 263 11 year old me had no idea that "schmatta" was a Yiddish word. I thought it was just nonesense syllables that sounded like "shattered."
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:35 PM (FtO5h)


Jagger's actually singing "schmatzin" which is complete gibberish.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:37 PM (s2VJv)

272 A legit one from me:

"Love that feeling in my hands."

Actual lyrics are "Love lies bleeding in my hands"

It's from an Elton John song: "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

Which by the way is legit epic.

I wanted to know what that epic song was, and Googled the lyrics as I heard them, and found the song in a list of Mondegreens

Posted by: mr_jack at August 15, 2020 08:38 PM (x7Fp5)

273 Just like the one we love is actually just like a one-winged dove. I never knew unti; about 2012

Posted by: steve at August 15, 2020 08:38 PM (TTy55)

274

Baby you're all that I want
When your lyin' here in my arms
Findin' it hard to believe
You're eleven

Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at August 15, 2020 08:38 PM (cj+ir)

275 The Boss my ass. Bruce can fuck up some lyrics.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:36 PM (Z+IKu)

---------

And Id drive all night.... just to buy you a pair of shoes.

Literary genius.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 15, 2020 08:38 PM (nw6Hr)

276 "O Fortuna" from the Carmina Burana is a treasure trove of them,

"This Octopoose - let's give him boots - send him to North Kore-aaa"

https://preview.tinyurl.com/77t3ojl

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:39 PM (FtO5h)

277 And it is Sturgis time:

shorturl.at/gkU58

Eff the traitors!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 08:33 PM (eTZoJ)


"Hey America, what did you do this weekend?"
"I watched a guy with no legs jump out of a plane into a motorcycle rally holding an enormous flag."

🦅💥🇺🇸

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:39 PM (t+qrx)

278 At the end of Stairway to Heaven

When all are one and one is all


I thought it was For what is won and what is lost

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 08:39 PM (lCCR+)

279
If I were Bernie Taupin, i'd be so frustrated that Elton could not pronounce my friggin lyrics.


"tell you a toe with couple of phonics, to get you on your feet again..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:39 PM (s2VJv)

280 278 At the end of Stairway to Heaven

When all are one and one is all


I thought it was For what is won and what is lost
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 08:39 PM (lCCR+)


Page and Plant got nothing on you. For real. Your lone is better.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:40 PM (s2VJv)

281 When he was a child, my brother at Christmas sang, "We Three Kings are Orientals"

Our dad is from the Philippines.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 15, 2020 08:40 PM (2RBkF)

282 Oh Louie Lou Eye, oh no, colon blow! yeah, yeah, yeah!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:02 PM (x8Wzq)



Every night at 10 I lay her again.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 08:40 PM (TdMsT)

283 222 Actual lyric:

"My mother and my brothers used to breath in clean air
And dreaming I'm a doctor"

What I heard

" My mother and my brothers used to beat me in bed
And tell me I'm adopted"
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (OeBYn)

Latter is closer to the truth I expect.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 08:40 PM (NWiLs)

284 Dont chew on me baby
Dont chew on me Owwwowwwow!

(Forgotten 80s band)

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (SaOtR)

285 Colorado!

And Nevada!

A mosquito!

(mumble) libido!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (x8Wzq)

286 >>Hey Mlii,
If you're watching, say hi.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 15, 2020 08:27 PM (G3Kkn)

I finally figured it out, TeeJ! I'm there

Posted by: My life is insanity at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (Z/jzm)

287 266 pep is correct. Some songs like Lucy in the Sky and I Am the Walrus leave you going WTF even, or especially, when you got the lyrics right.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (7EjX1)

288 For years, I thought Eric Carmen was singing: "Lov-er man said..", but it was "All by myself..."

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (1vynn)

289 I'm frozen! I'm frozen!

(Ein prosit Ein prosit at Oktoberfest)

Posted by: IrishEi at August 15, 2020 08:42 PM (sGotD)

290
284 Dont chew on me baby
Dont chew on me Owwwowwwow!

(Forgotten 80s band)
Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:41 PM (SaOtR)


Chips Ahoy used that song in a commercial with a claymation cookie and I swear they did something with the recording to make it sound like 'don't CHEW on me baby."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:42 PM (s2VJv)

291 Jimmy Buffet:

'California is one 8X10, I just can't wait to see you again, come Monday.....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 08:42 PM (FnwlK)

292 Hey transgender

Posted by: Yep at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (lMsxO)

293 "I've got! Two chickens to paralyze!

Posted by: BuzzG at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (H/h4z)

294 She's got electric boobs....

Posted by: Russkilitlover at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (99Nt9)

295 J Geils- "Love Stinks! TEN YEARS"

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (SaOtR)

296 293 "I've got! Two chickens to paralyze!
Posted by: BuzzG at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (H/h4z)


Food thread's tomorrow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (s2VJv)

297 More Mick J

I bet yo' mama was a Cheshire Queen

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (eTZoJ)

298 We were sure that Prince was singing "Mad Rabbits Go 'Way" in the 1980s.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (ykYG2)

299
Hall and Oates

Kiss on my list

Because your kiss, your kiss is on my list

I hear
Because your tits, your tits is on my lips

Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (t6XCL)

300 Eric Carmen's red-pilled. I bet he finds himself all by himself a lot these days in his profession.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:45 PM (FtO5h)

301 I'm frozen! I'm frozen!

(Ein prosit Ein prosit at Oktoberfest)
Posted by: IrishEi at August 15, 2020 08:42 PM (sGotD)

OMG!

Hofbrau Munchen tent. 1990.

Fucking Germans can party. Best part is I signed out on leave for 30 days when we rolled back to post.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:45 PM (x8Wzq)

302 Many years ago, when our daughter was a little girl, we were in church on Palm Sunday, when the Passion is read. At the point where the crowd cries "Give us Barabbas!" she leap up and shouted "Give us Mr Rabbit!"

Posted by: Brown Line at August 15, 2020 08:46 PM (S6ArX)

303
The Babys (John Waite) "Every Time I think of You"

Every time I think of you
it always gives me wood

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2020 08:46 PM (1kgO6)

304 299


Hall and Oates



Kiss on my list



Because your kiss, your kiss is on my list



I hear

Because your tits, your tits is on my lips

Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (t6XCL)

++++
For the longest time, I thought it was Haulin' Oats.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:46 PM (T2NR8)

305 272 A legit one from me:

"Love that feeling in my hands."

Actual lyrics are "Love lies bleeding in my hands"

It's from an Elton John song: "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

Which by the way is legit epic.

I wanted to know what that epic song was, and Googled the lyrics as I heard them, and found the song in a list of Mondegreens
Posted by: mr_jack at August 15, 2020 08:38 PM (x7Fp5)


Agree. Love or like just about every tune on the albums. It, along with Who's Next were basically the soundtrack of my bunk at sleep away camp in 1974.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:46 PM (s2VJv)

306 "I've got! Two chickens to paralyze!
Posted by: BuzzG at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (H/h4z)


Damn.

Welp, that's how the song goes to me now, nothing to be done about it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (t+qrx)

307 Good King Wence's car backed out, on a piece of Steven.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (FtO5h)

308 Chris Rhea with "Fool If You Think It's Over"....

Sang "Look, save your tears, got years and years...."

I heard "Look, save your tears, God isn't here...."

I liked Chris Rhea.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (Z+IKu)

309 297 More Mick J

I bet yo' mama was a Cheshire Queen

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 08:44 PM (eTZoJ)


That is the lyric. But the next line I thought was "ate all the poultry at a sweet 16."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (s2VJv)

310
Who needs a house on a cul de sac,
Is that what you get with your money

He's tradin' in a Chevy with a cattle rack-ack-ack-ack

Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (cj+ir)

311 For the longest time, I thought it was Haulin' Oats.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:46 PM (T2NR

Is that like getting your ashes hauled? Asking for an old Jarhead friend of mine.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (x8Wzq)

312 @290 J J, ok. So it was the Human League. Never liked the band, but sounds like a goid song for Chips Ahoy.

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (SaOtR)

313 308
I liked Chris Rhea.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (Z+IKu)


He almost formed a band with Dire Straits, but alas...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (s2VJv)

314 10 Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 07:42 PM (NWiLs)


Chameleon? I thought it was "comedian."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (YqDXo)

315 294 She's got electric boobs....
Posted by: Russkilitlover at August 15, 2020 08:43 PM (99Nt9)

She's got electric boobs,
my ma has two
you know I read it in the back of playboyoyoyoy

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (FnwlK)

316 There is a Led Zeppelin song called, I think, Livin' Lovin' Maid. I don't know what the opening lyrics are. I've never looked them up, because I like the ones I hear, better.

"With a purple operator and a 50 percent hair"

Posted by: Splunge at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (dOV9E)

317 Damn.



Welp, that's how the song goes to me now, nothing to be done about it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (t+qrx)

++++
I know. If I ever hear this song again, that's going to be it.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (T2NR8)

318 312 @290 J J, ok. So it was the Human League. Never liked the band, but sounds like a goid song for Chips Ahoy.
Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (SaOtR)


I like their tune "Fascination." Everything else sounded like drunken Cockneys.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:49 PM (s2VJv)

319 317 Damn.



Welp, that's how the song goes to me now, nothing to be done about it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (t+qrx)

++++
I know. If I ever hear this song again, that's going to be it.
Posted by: washrivergal


This is true.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:49 PM (U2p+3)

320 "... And crown thy good with brotherhood,
from sea to Chinese sea."

Give me a break, I was in Kindergarten.

Posted by: Mr. Wallace Beery at August 15, 2020 08:49 PM (4PGGt)

321 When my son was 5, his best friend was a very cool 6 year old, with cool older sisters. My son's friend was walking around our house, snapping his fingers and singing Prince songs.

He looked at my son and said, " what is YOUR favorite song?"

My son pondered for a moment, then said very seriously. "Jingle Bells."

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 08:50 PM (TdMsT)

322 He almost formed a band with Dire Straits, but alas...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (s2VJv)

Wow! I did not know that.

He always struck me as a very talented, nice fella.

Thanks JJ!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:50 PM (Z+IKu)

323 Pug Mahon

Dinkelacker Dinkelacker boom boom boom!

Posted by: IrishEi at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (sGotD)

324 This isn't a mondegreen, but it turns out that William Blake's "The Tyger" matches up well enough to Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" that it gets stuck in my head sometimes, but with "The Tyger" as the lyrics.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (t+qrx)

325
Joe Cocker Translation


https://tinyurl.com/h7r7lj3

Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (t6XCL)

326 322 He almost formed a band with Dire Straits, but alas...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (s2VJv)

Wow! I did not know that.

He always struck me as a very talented, nice fella.

Thanks JJ!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 08:50 PM (Z+IKu)



It was a joke. Dire Rhea.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (s2VJv)

327 Ya'll are the wittiest, funniest people on earth. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (g5DWE)

328 316 There is a Led Zeppelin song called, I think, Livin' Lovin' Maid. I don't know what the opening lyrics are. I've never looked them up, because I like the ones I hear, better.

"With a purple operator and a 50 percent hair"
Posted by: Splunge at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (dOV9E)

Bingo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (s2VJv)

329 Is that like getting your ashes hauled? Asking for an old Jarhead friend of mine.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (x8Wzq)

++++
That I don't know. What I was picturing was more of the Quaker variety.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (T2NR8)

330 God bless America
Land that I love
.....
through the night with a light from a bulb....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (FnwlK)

331
I got my first real sex dream
Got it outta 5 to 9.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (nw6Hr)

332 That is the lyric. But the next line I thought was "ate all the poultry at a sweet 16."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:47 PM (s2VJv)


I get to challenge JJS

"I bet your mama was a tent show queen"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (eTZoJ)

333 I wonder, wonder, who in the devil, who?
Rudolph the hook-nosed mouse.

Posted by: Regnad Kcin at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (BNR2u)

334 Greetings Horde

Hope you have all been well

AGIC

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 08:52 PM (FnwlK)

335 327 Ya'll are the wittiest, funniest people on earth. Thank you.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (g5DWE)


Please send $5000US via Western Union to cover all modalities. And remain blessed.

Also, the scene where Pesci says "I make you laugh? I amuse you?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:53 PM (s2VJv)

336 Rush - Bastille Day

Actual - Oooh, there's no bread, let them eat cake...

What I hear - Oooh, there's no bread, lemony cake...

Posted by: toddg at August 15, 2020 08:53 PM (PoO61)

337 Palin has not become more sane

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (O+AcM)

338 My husband's band plays "Tequila" (my husband quips that it is his favorite karaoke song) and when we were listing to the song on a CD, my toddler niece yelled out "Topeka!" so now that's how my husband sings it.

Posted by: Emmie at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (4JM5Y)

339 Hi Ben Had!

Even though I can't go to Mass (not going to follow the restrictions set forth by god is less) I have taken solace in your oft to me.

Thank you, lovely
Lady.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (U2p+3)

340 In the pre-Internet days, there was no way to check the accuracy of song lyrics. So from my earliest childhood years, I heard the opening lyrics of 'The Bugs Bunny Show' as :

Oh, bonjour! Light the lights!
This is it! The Nile nights!

I heard it that way for so long, to this day that's what I hum when I'm thinking of the song.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (4U3xl)

341 *inslee

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (U2p+3)

342
"Twilights glass gleaming."
"The bums bursting in air."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:54 PM (s2VJv)

343 J.J. I said ya'll were funny - Not worthy.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:55 PM (g5DWE)

344 Although the autocucumber from inslee to is less is pretty damn good.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 15, 2020 08:55 PM (U2p+3)

345
G'night.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:55 PM (s2VJv)

346 "And it appears to be a golf ball."

From Crosby, Stills, and Nash's first album.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (z7Hel)

347
For my fellow tribesmen:

"Dovid, melech Yisroel, "Hi-Fi Pizza Pie."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (s2VJv)

348

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, and a brawla, brawla sooit
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, and a brawla sooit

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (aKsyK)

349 318 312 @290 J J, ok. So it was the Human League. Never liked the band, but sounds like a goid song for Chips Ahoy.
Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 08:48 PM (SaOtR)


I like their tune "Fascination." Everything else sounded like drunken Cockneys.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:49 PM (s2VJv)

---------------------------

Weird. That song came on the radio not ten minutes ago as I was pulling into the garage. The radio station is doing an 80s dance party. I had to sit in the car until the first chorus.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (CAJOC)

350 141 That's a good match for the line in the Lord's Prayer, "And Deliver us from Eagles".

Posted by: Tom Servo

And made better by the follow-up: "Hooray for us sinners!"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (Rvt88)

351 Stones "Rip This Joint"

"Wham bam throw a ham, Alabam don't give a damn."

Lester Bangs quoted it that way in an article, whether he was joking or misheard it who knows, but after reading it that way I always heard it that way.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (FtO5h)

352 Glooo-o-o-o-o-ooo-o-o-o-o-ooo-o-o-o-o-oooria!
In excessive dayyyy-gloooo!

Posted by: goozer at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (PwwcI)

353 Also, the scene where Pesci says "I make you laugh? I amuse you?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:53 PM (s2VJv)


Cinematic mondegreen: I have to stop and consciously think about whether I'm thinking of that scene or the one in Taxi Driver because I get them confused.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (t+qrx)

354 Nurse, This is so much why I wanted you to have this. Your Faith is in you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:57 PM (g5DWE)

355 The bathysphere choosers are the most susceptible to mondegreens. Not adopted!

Posted by: Buck O. Phive at August 15, 2020 08:57 PM (zTJAd)

356 We used to sing Johnnie Rivers as kids. 'Secret Asian Man'
and the 'The Girl with Emphysema' Impanema song.

Posted by: DBCooper at August 15, 2020 08:57 PM (y1Mvi)

357 353 Also, the scene where Pesci says "I make you laugh? I amuse you?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:53 PM (s2VJv)

Cinematic mondegreen: I have to stop and consciously think about whether I'm thinking of that scene or the one in Taxi Driver because I get them confused.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 08:56 PM (t+qrx)

At there risk of pissing people off, I find Scorsese extremely overrated.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:57 PM (s2VJv)

358
Hairyback Guy @ 308- Chris Rhea is certainly an underated talent and Fool If You Think It's Over is one of my favorites.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (XhWtx)

359 Pity the people and free my soul.

Posted by: Shannon at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (nrKNB)

360
Not a song but in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why and who is Richard Stans?

Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (t6XCL)

361 don't let Elton John go down on me

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (O+AcM)

362 Stooopid pantyfa really did go to Sturgis.


I guess to PoPo do exist to protect the criminals from the rest of us.


https://youtu.be/IMnReYrkcgA

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (VcFUs)

363 My mother grew up Catholic and told me she and her sister didn't know the chant, so they would say "My father can bear your father at do-mi-nos" at Mass.

Not being Catholic, I'm not sure what portion of the ceremony it was. Some sort of consecration.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 08:59 PM (cj+ir)

364 Why and who is Richard Stans?
Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (t6XCL)

He lives in one nation, invisible.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 08:59 PM (FtO5h)

365 Beat*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 08:59 PM (cj+ir)

366 360
Not a song but in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why and who is Richard Stans?
Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (t6XCL)

He's for who the republic stands....

Jose can't you see?

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:00 PM (FnwlK)

367 Signs, signs, everywhere a sign, f*ckin' up the scenery...

Tesla must have heard it that was too since they flat-out sang it that way when they covered it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:00 PM (FtO5h)

368 In the Heart song "All I want to do is make love to you," a classmate swore that the line "he brought the woman in me, so many times, easily" was actually "he poked a hole in me, so many times, easily."

As we were in high school, hilarity resulted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:01 PM (cfSRQ)

369 https://youtu.be/IMnReYrkcgA


I am confident that the Antifas got their asses kicked.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 09:01 PM (TdMsT)

370 Ya'll are the wittiest, funniest people on earth. Thank you.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (g5DWE)

I have been hanging out here since just after the beginning (2004 - 2005ish), and I agree. Ace and the Horde have kept me from going totally batshit crazy over the years. And, having met some of the Horde in meat space only bolsters my belief that these are some truly wonderful people.

This is unique venue. it has a neat underground feel to it. And I know that this is not accidental.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:01 PM (x8Wzq)

371 Woof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2020 09:02 PM (wPVhA)

372 It was a joke. Dire Rhea.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 15, 2020 08:51 PM (s2VJv)

You, you.....you got me.

Good one!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:03 PM (Z+IKu)

373 After years of listening to "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart (which I own on CD), I still had no idea what he was saying.

So I looked it up and it was "in clouds of incense, and patchouli."

I thought it was "she comes and says: I am for Julie."

Every time I heard the song I wondered who the hell Julie was.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:03 PM (cfSRQ)

374 "Blinded by the light,Wrapped up like a douche, another ruler in the night..."

That's how it sounded to me, too. And there's no point telling me what the real words are, because I can't understand them either.

G'night, all.

Posted by: Annalucia at August 15, 2020 09:03 PM (S6ArX)

375 This is unique venue. it has a neat underground feel to it. And I know that this is not accidental.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:01 PM (x8Wzq)

I lurk much more than I post but I feel I know the little gray box people as friends.

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:03 PM (FnwlK)

376 354 Nurse, This is so much why I wanted you to have this. Your Faith is in you.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 08:57 PM (g5DWE)


Ben Had--mine keeps watch over me at night. I love it.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 09:04 PM (TdMsT)

377 'I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me.'
Middle of the Road. Pretenders

Posted by: Ranger Gord at August 15, 2020 09:04 PM (n47iY)

378 The Velvet Underground "Waiting for the Man"

For years, I thought it was:

"Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
*New Yawk shoes* and and big straw hat..."

It's "P.R. shoes" meaning Puerto Rican, I guess.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:04 PM (FtO5h)

379 This is unique venue. it has a neat underground feel to it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:01 PM (x8Wzq)


It's because you have to carry a Bic to the shitter. Light bulb's burned out.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (t+qrx)

380 Chris Rhea is certainly an underated talent and Fool If You Think It's Over is one of my favorites.
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 08:58 PM (XhWtx)

Yup....You got good taste Eromero.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (Z+IKu)

381 I lurk much more than I post but I feel I know the little gray box people as friends.
Posted by: Anonymous guy


This place is very definitely unique. I'm so glad to have stumbled upon it.

One of us. One of us. One of us.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (VcFUs)

382 Sturgis looks like fun!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (eTZoJ)

383 This is unique venue. it has a neat underground feel to it. And I know that this is not accidental.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons



Jean has a long mustache.
Je repet.
Jean has a long mustache.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (axyOa)

384 One ton of mayo
I need-a one ton of mayo
One ton of maaaaayoooo
I need-a one ton of mayo

Posted by: goozer at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (PwwcI)

385 377 'I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me.'
Middle of the Road. Pretenders
Posted by: Ranger Gord at August 15, 2020 09:04 PM (n47iY)

--------------------------

The Moron Anthem

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (CAJOC)

386
I saw an interview with Jack Bruce and he was asked about the lyrics of a Cream song and he said something like, "I don't know. Drugs." Pretty much we were probably stoned and the lyrics don't make much sense.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (lCCR+)

387 I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me.'
Middle of the Road. Pretenders
Posted by: Ranger Gord at August 15, 2020 09:04 PM (n47iY)

Daaaang!

Right?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (x8Wzq)

388 381 I lurk much more than I post but I feel I know the little gray box people as friends.
Posted by: Anonymous guy


This place is very definitely unique. I'm so glad to have stumbled upon it.

One of us. One of us. One of us.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (VcFUs)

Gooble gobble gooble gobble!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (NWiLs)

389 Any toddler, and almost everybody else, singing Mairzy Doats.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (7EjX1)

390 Pug, this is what a MoMe is like. Laugh until your side are going to burst.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (g5DWE)

391 It's because you have to carry a Bic to the shitter. Light bulb's burned out.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (t+qrx)


Er, no disrespect intended towards the organizers of the TXMoMe nor the luxurious men's washroom facilities provided there.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (t+qrx)

392 Listening to "Fly Like an Eagle" as a kid, I wondered why Steve Miller wanted to "shoot the children with no shoes on their feet."

Sounded mean.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (cfSRQ)

393 392 Listening to "Fly Like an Eagle" as a kid, I wondered why Steve Miller wanted to "shoot the children with no shoes on their feet."

Sounded mean.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (cfSRQ)

Bullets are far cheaper per unit than shoes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 09:07 PM (NWiLs)

394 Listening to "Fly Like an Eagle" as a kid, I wondered why Steve Miller wanted to "shoot the children with no shoes on their feet."

Sounded mean.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (cfSRQ)

Bullets are far cheaper per unit than shoes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 09:07 PM (NWiLs)


When the only tool you have is a gun...

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:07 PM (t+qrx)

395 She's laughin' inside, cuz they can't refuse,
She's so beautiful now, she doesn't wear her shoes.
She never liked the Jews...

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 15, 2020 09:08 PM (j4zcI)

396 Sturgis looks like fun!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (eTZoJ)

Oh, sure. Unless you're trying to see Devil's Tower on your way to see your elderly folks in Montana.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:08 PM (x8Wzq)

397 Le chair est contre le wall.
Le chair est contre le wall.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:08 PM (FtO5h)

398 Rock the Catbox Rock the Catbox!

Posted by: Honz at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM (nSqFo)

399 Listening to "Fly Like an Eagle" as a kid, I wondered why Steve Miller wanted to "shoot the children with no shoes on their feet."

My inner Monte Burns hears that as "shoo the children..."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM (x8Wzq)

400 392 Listening to "Fly Like an Eagle" as a kid, I wondered why Steve Miller wanted to "shoot the children with no shoes on their feet."

Sounded mean.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd



Where to start?


No school lunches needed.
No WIC cards.
No truancy police.
No teenager disrespect.
No 'my lawn, get hence'.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM (VcFUs)

401 Rock the Catbox Rock the Catbox!
Posted by: Honz at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM

I thought it was "cashbox."

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM (/+bwe)

402 I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me.

That's how I've always heard it, how I've always sang it, and nobody's gonna convince me otherwise!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (FtO5h)

403 Ladyl, That gives me such comfort.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (g5DWE)

404 Bullets are far cheaper per unit than shoes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 09:07 PM (NWiLs)

---
Depends on the supply, don't it?

I mean I can walk into any sporting goods store in town and find shoes.

Ammo? Not so much.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (cfSRQ)

405 390 Pug, this is what a MoMe is like. Laugh until your side are going to burst.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (g5DWE)


I would like to attend a MoMe next time there is one in California - if we ever get our freedoms back - but do wonder how my wife would take the news I'm going to meet some people I know only through this internet site I frequent...

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (FnwlK)

406 Pug, this is what a MoMe is like. Laugh until your side are going to burst.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (g5DWE)

---------


Sounds a lot like my first jury trial.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (wPVhA)

407
Er, no disrespect intended towards the organizers of the TXMoMe nor the luxurious men's washroom facilities provided there.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM


yeah, but for the rest of your life, you can say "I had to piss like a horse" and mean it literally

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2020 09:10 PM (1kgO6)

408
Down on the corner
Out in the street
Will their be a pork boy a playin'
Play a pickle, slap your feet

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 09:11 PM (cj+ir)

409 It's because you have to carry a Bic to the shitter. Light bulb's burned out.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:05 PM (t+qrx)
Er, no disrespect intended towards the organizers of the TXMoMe nor the luxurious men's washroom facilities provided there.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (t+qrx)


What!
You mean there once was a light bulb?
Luxury!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at August 15, 2020 09:11 PM (eTZoJ)

410 Blinded by the light;

Wrapped up like a douche and a stroller in the night.

Posted by: Orson at August 15, 2020 09:11 PM (FArSJ)

411 Rock the Catbox Rock the Catbox!

Posted by: Honz at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM



I thought it was "cashbox."





Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 09:09 PM (/+bwe)

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My kids loved singing along when they were little and they were convinced it was a catbox.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:11 PM (cfSRQ)

412 My big toe hurts. I mean really.

Posted by: Boo Radley at August 15, 2020 09:12 PM (VlZwl)

413 Anonymous Guy, You can not even imagine the third degree Jewells got before she came to TX.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:13 PM (g5DWE)

414 I remember everyone singing it "Fuck the Casbah!" When it came on in the car while out cruising with friends, we'd all scream it at the top of our lungs.

Man, the Reagan years were great.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:13 PM (FtO5h)

415 Bic to the shitter? Oh, the lighter. Thought the pen...

Posted by: klaftern at August 15, 2020 09:13 PM (RuIsu)

416 Thanks for the hilarity, Horde! My sides hurt from laughing.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 15, 2020 09:14 PM (T2NR8)

417
EVERYBODY DANCE DEAD NOW!

Posted by: YIKES! at August 15, 2020 09:14 PM (t6XCL)

418 I don't recall the specifics but I'm sure I had some weird lyrics for Andy Williams "Canadian Sunset". It was mostly crooning and the words tended to get lost.

Posted by: JTB at August 15, 2020 09:14 PM (7EjX1)

419 I remember everyone singing it "Fuck the Casbah!"
When it came on in the car while out cruising with friends, we'd all
scream it at the top of our lungs.



Man, the Reagan years were great.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:13 PM (FtO5h)

---
During Desert Storm, the local college radio station frequently played "Killing an Arab." Ironically, of course.

Good times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:14 PM (cfSRQ)

420 I guess to PoPo do exist to protect the criminals from the rest of us.

https://youtu.be/IMnReYrkcgA



No audio?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 15, 2020 09:15 PM (ZSK0i)

421
I'm your penisI'm your fireI'm your desire

Posted by: stumck at August 15, 2020 09:15 PM (uksaT)

422 "Put me in cold, I'm ready to play.
Look at me, I can be, center feel."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:16 PM (cfSRQ)

423 Peas Porridge hot
Peas Porridge cold
Peas Porridge in the pot 9 days old.
Ledo

Posted by: BigZesty at August 15, 2020 09:16 PM (o2qfT)

424 Don't let yer son... Go down on me... -- Elton John

Bingo Jed had a light on... Don't carry me to far away. -- Steve Miller Band

The Chan's not my son... -- M.J.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:16 PM (j3jZX)

425 Pug, this is what a MoMe is like. Laugh until your side are going to burst.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (g5DWE)

Me and the Missus want to go to Texas so much this fall, but I am afraid it won't happen this year.

Been to CO meetups, and they were so fun. Truly good folks.

But, my Dad is ailing, and I need to be ready to go to Montana in shot notice.

Maybe next year.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:16 PM (x8Wzq)

426 It's because you have to carry a Bic to the shitter. Light bulb's burned out.

A Bic?! Uh...you may want to wait a few minutes.

Posted by: Hillary! at August 15, 2020 09:17 PM (DMQdU)

427 Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:17 PM (FtO5h)

428 413 Anonymous Guy, You can not even imagine the third degree Jewells got before she came to TX.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2020 09:13 PM (g5DWE)

I think there was one in Temecula, Ca last year (August?) a fairly short drive from Orange County - I considered but chickened out !

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:18 PM (FnwlK)

429 I saw an interview with Jack Bruce and he was asked about the lyrics of a Cream song and he said something like, "I don't know. Drugs." Pretty much we were probably stoned and the lyrics don't make much sense.

I think that's the standard explanation for SWLABR

and then there's Tales of Brave Ulysses, which includes the lyrics:

The tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
And you want to take her with you
To the hard land of the winter

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2020 09:19 PM (V2Yro)

430 No audio?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent,

Yeah, that was a bummer for me too.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:19 PM (VcFUs)

431 These are pretty funny

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2020 09:19 PM (OjZpE)

432 Rock the Catbox Rock the Catbox!

.....

I always got the "Rock the Casbah" part.

It was the stuff in between I didn't understand.
To this day this is my understanding.

She reeeally don't like it, the bitch is not kosher
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
She reeeally don't like it, she's mentally retardated
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 15, 2020 09:19 PM (cj+ir)

433 Sir Elton:

"I'm just another black man in your life who wanders free..."

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:20 PM (FnwlK)

434 427 Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:17 PM (FtO5h)


Sugar Bear.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (TdMsT)

435 Mama say mama saw mamakusa- Michael Jackson

Sounded like: ""gonna save on the sale of apple sauce."

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (SaOtR)

436 There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do.

Posted by: Toto at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (wPVhA)

437 Holeee crap. Looking for inspiration, i brought up the Billboard Top 100 from 1971, when i was 15. what an incredible line-up of classic tunes.


Posted by: goatexchange at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (cBe6V)

438 To this day, M.J. is singing "...The Chan's not my son" when I hear Billie Jean.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (j3jZX)

439 Yeah, that was a bummer for me too.

At least the video quality was pretty decent and there were a few cute chicks scattered throughout.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 15, 2020 09:22 PM (ZSK0i)

440 I think a true mondegreen would be one that seems plausible (not probable) based on the context of the song because unless the singer missang, your brain is going to try to make what it thinks it hears fit best and part of that is how it feels where it is. "Lady Mondegreen" fits perfectly given the lyrical context. I have never, ever heard that anyone really thinks they heard "girl with collitis goes by". Yeah, you can "see" why they sound similar, but c'mon.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:22 PM (KAi1n)

441 "She got electric boobs, I cannot lose, you know I read it in a magazine..."

Posted by: saul dunman at August 15, 2020 09:22 PM (1zL+S)

442 Holeee crap. Looking for inspiration, i brought up
the Billboard Top 100 from 1971, when i was 15. what an incredible
line-up of classic tunes.




Posted by: goatexchange at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (cBe6V)
---
When I was 17, I had a very good beer...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:22 PM (cfSRQ)

443 386

I saw an interview with Jack Bruce and he was asked about the lyrics
of a Cream song and he said something like, "I don't know. Drugs."
Pretty much we were probably stoned and the lyrics don't make much
sense.


Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (lCCR+)


The story I heard was that White Room was about a train station restroom where they would shoot up heroin.

Posted by: eagles at August 15, 2020 09:23 PM (l3+k2)

444 Marmoset, there'll be days like this.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:23 PM (t+qrx)

445 434 427 Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:17 PM (FtO5h)


Sugar Bear.
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at August 15, 2020 09:21 PM (TdMsT)

Takes me right back to summer of senior year in between graduation and leaving for college....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:23 PM (FnwlK)

446 /offsock

Posted by: davidt at August 15, 2020 09:24 PM (l3+k2)

447 I was a weird kid who wasn't a bit interested in sports or music

always felt left in a car with a bunch of friends

never knew the words to any songs except Moon River, which my older sister used to sing to me

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2020 09:24 PM (O+AcM)

448 Ok, I gotta cop to Steve Miller - "Big ol' jet airliner" -- "Big ol' Chad at a lineup"

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:24 PM (KAi1n)

449 And @435 song "Be Starting Something" I always thought was "Beach Party Surf Thing" sorta like "Surfer Girl"

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 09:25 PM (SaOtR)

450 Elton John lyrics are insanely hard to figure out. The man has some seriously unorthodox enunciation.

Back in the days before ubiquitous internet, me and a gal who wanted to sing for her senior year, we tried and failed to decode one of his Lion King songs. It's impossible.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:25 PM (j3jZX)

451 There'll be days like this, my marmoset.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:25 PM (t+qrx)

452 Weird Al made a career of fitting suitable alternative lyrics to this, many of them based on what people actually heard.

"Smells Like Nirvana" accomplished the feat of having clearer, and more memorable lyrics than the song that inspired it. I have no idea what Cobain was saying most of the time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:26 PM (cfSRQ)

453 386

I saw an interview with Jack Bruce and he was asked about the lyrics
of a Cream song and he said something like, "I don't know. Drugs."
Pretty much we were probably stoned and the lyrics don't make much
sense.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:06 PM (lCCR+)
The story I heard was that White Room was about a train station restroom where they would shoot up heroin.
Posted by: eagles at August 15, 2020 09:23 PM (l3+k2)

Cream. Jack hated Ginger, Ginger hated Jack. Was Jack a short or tall guy? I think Ginger was a tall fella.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:26 PM (Z+IKu)

454 What we talking about tonight

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 15, 2020 09:27 PM (V9zvk)

455 See that thing in the reef with the big shiny teeth....Atsa Moray!
Put your hand in a crack and you won't get it back....Atsa Moray!
(Scuba diver's song by the Barefoot Man)

Posted by: boynsea at August 15, 2020 09:27 PM (Fks5r)

456 Inna Gadda Da Veeda may be the most brilliant song EVER. *AND* -- bonus -- it doesn't matter whether the listener is a native English speaker.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:27 PM (KAi1n)

457 Someone Shaved My Wife Tonight

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:17 PM (FtO5h)



In many ways the story of Obama

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:28 PM (lCCR+)

458 Yeah, it's fair to say Ginger, who was tall, hated Jack. Cream could not last.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:28 PM (KAi1n)

459 Big ol' Chad at a lineup. F'n LOL

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:28 PM (j3jZX)

460 She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit...

Had no idea what mohair was, so that was the part I thought I got wrong.

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2020 09:29 PM (ELgVT)

461 Whoa, Whoa, it's my d*ck, you kno-o-w, never believe its not so. ( a new meaning to showtime).

Posted by: wferrin at August 15, 2020 09:29 PM (DT67g)

462 Yeah AGIC, I wanted to go to the SoCal MoMe, but had other family obligations. We need to make it happen again so I don't feel so alone here in Cali.

Posted by: InCali at August 15, 2020 09:29 PM (9AFWN)

463 Hi, halfrican!

Misheard and misremembered lyrics. Mostly.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:30 PM (j3jZX)

464 Good night, ya morons! (And 'ettes.)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 15, 2020 09:30 PM (/+bwe)

465 450 Elton John lyrics are insanely hard to figure out. The man has some seriously unorthodox enunciation.


Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:25 PM (j3jZX)

It's the #$%%$#ing accent plus they use a few words differently than we do - not sure anyone knows what 'her HP demands forever" means from 'Someone saved my life tonight".....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:30 PM (FnwlK)

466 452 Weird Al made a career of fitting suitable alternative lyrics to this, many of them based on what people actually heard.

"Smells Like Nirvana" accomplished the feat of having clearer, and more memorable lyrics than the song that inspired it. I have no idea what Cobain was saying most of the time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:26 PM (cfSRQ)

It's hard to warf garble zouth
With all these marbles in my mouth

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 15, 2020 09:30 PM (NWiLs)

467 She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit...



Had no idea what mohair was, so that was the part I thought I got wrong.

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2020 09:29 PM (ELgVT)

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I have no idea what he's saying through most of that song, other than "B-b-b-benny and the Jetsssssss"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (cfSRQ)

468 It's the #$%%$#ing accent plus they use a few words differently than we do - not sure anyone knows what 'her HP demands forever" means from 'Someone saved my life tonight".....
Posted by: Anonymous guy

---

"High Priced"?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (Rvt88)

469 There'll be days like this, my marmoset.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 15, 2020 09:25 PM (t+qrx)

Ha! me too.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (x8Wzq)

470 Unce

Tice

Fee tines a mady

Posted by: Buckwheat Sings at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (h1jJh)

471 My eyes never saw a rocket that was quite that size.

Oh wait. That was the actual lyric.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2020 09:32 PM (wPVhA)

472 In many ways the story of Obama

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:28 PM (lCCR+)

LOL! Almost snorted beer all over the keyboard......

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:33 PM (FnwlK)

473 I have no idea what he's saying through most of that song, other than "B-b-b-benny and the Jetsssssss"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (cfSRQ)

Yup....the "kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around" never sounded like that ever. I had no idea what he was saying.

Accents.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:33 PM (Z+IKu)

474 Stereogum has been running down the entire history of Billboard #1's. They put up a new one every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The comments section is essential. The commenters have just taken it and run with it, with unoffical co-contributers running down the black music charts, the UK charts, Adult Contemporary charts etc. etc.

Currently in early 1984 with Phil Collins "Against All Odds." The last few were "Footloose," "Jump," "Karma Chameleon" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

Reading back through the Fifties & Sixties is a trip.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:33 PM (FtO5h)

475 Shatner's version of "Rocket Man" was very clarifying in terms of the lyrics.

Say what you will about the man, he ENUNCIATES.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:34 PM (cfSRQ)

476 Eddie Money
Two ticks and a pair of lice

Posted by: RJD at August 15, 2020 09:34 PM (ucNdt)

477 Don't know much about the French I took.......

Posted by: pawn at August 15, 2020 09:34 PM (Cfk8j)

478 162 dated a southern girl in Memphis years ago. She wanted to impress me with her cooking skills. Brought over a 5 gallon tub of her corn pone casserole. Left it on the counter in me and my buddies apartment to cool off as we went out for drinks. Came home and the pot was empty and on the floor of the kitchen. Seems my roommates Weimaraner had a thing for corn pone casserole..poor dog was sick for days!

Posted by: Alf767 at August 15, 2020 09:34 PM (idVkM)

479 462 Yeah AGIC, I wanted to go to the SoCal MoMe, but had other family obligations. We need to make it happen again so I don't feel so alone here in Cali.
Posted by: InCali at August 15, 2020 09:29 PM (9AFWN)

I think there's quite a few of us here, one commenter is quite close to me judging from some of the places he has mentioned in his comments.

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:35 PM (FnwlK)

480 Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a Cyclone Ranger
Everyone.
...I always figured that was some Hentai/Manga reference I didn't get, not "psyched Lone Ranger"

Posted by: The Vapors at August 15, 2020 09:35 PM (SnmhH)

481 Weird Al made a career of fitting suitable alternative lyrics to this, many of them based on what people actually heard.

"Smells
Like Nirvana" accomplished the feat of having clearer, and more
memorable lyrics than the song that inspired it. I have no idea what
Cobain was saying most of the time.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:26 PM (cfSRQ)

That's what made his parody so good. The man is really talented.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (XNUrO)

482 Currently in early 1984 with Phil Collins "Against
All Odds." The last few were "Footloose," "Jump," "Karma Chameleon" and
"Owner of a Lonely Heart."



Reading back through the Fifties Sixties is a trip.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:33 PM (FtO5h)

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Science tells us that the 80s saw the greatest variety of music in human history. More genres, more widely distributed than ever before.

Now it's all collapsing in on itself. I tell my kids: "The old world in its sunset was fair to see."

They mostly listen to Dad's music, because it's better than the crap on the radio.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)

483 Cream. Jack hated Ginger, Ginger hated Jack. Was Jack a short or tall guy? I think Ginger was a tall fella.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:26 PM (Z+IKu)


That hatred was prior to Cream. When they were with the Graham Bond Organization band they got into a fight and Baker pulled a knife on Bruce. Clapton said he spent the whole time trying to be a peacemaker between them. I found this story from Forbes:


The story goeswhen late bassist Jack Bruce was a few hours from
death in 2014, he phoned up close friends to say goodbye. When he called
his ex-Cream band mate Ginger Baker, he told him, "I'm dying, Ginger,
f*ck you," then slammed down the phone. Baker tried to call back several
times, of course, but Bruce wouldn't pick up. If that is nota true story, it is certainlyplausible.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (lCCR+)

484 >>> My big toe hurts. I mean really.
~~~~~

Gout.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (sGotD)

485 I can feel in coming in a the air tonight, hold on.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (XNUrO)

486 It's the #$%%$#ing accent plus they use a few words differently than we do - not sure anyone knows what 'her HP demands forever" means from 'Someone saved my life tonight".....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:30 PM

In "Levon" ... Nobody in the States knew what a "garridge" by a " motorway" was. It's a GARAGE, Elton! Say it right! Next to a freeway!

So many Elton examples.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (j3jZX)

487 iF yoU see Kay also by Barefoot Man (aka George Nowak)
lots of funny shit there

Posted by: boynsea at August 15, 2020 09:37 PM (Fks5r)

488

Lemme take reds....
We all know yer out there

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 15, 2020 09:37 PM (h1jJh)

489 "High Priced"?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (Rvt8

I read it was a reference to some sort of payday loan arrangement - a way to get short-term cash. But - could be High Priced..as i wrote - no one knows....

But he's one of my all-time favorites - especially 'Your Song"

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:37 PM (FnwlK)

490 It's a fine, fine time, for Avery Union"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:39 PM (x8Wzq)

491 @472 and 484, it's "Kamala Kamala Kamala Chameleon."

Posted by: Boy George at August 15, 2020 09:39 PM (SaOtR)

492 "Gonna save my money for mamasan!"

Posted by: michael jackson at August 15, 2020 09:39 PM (UJJio)

493 Hold me closer Tony Danza

Posted by: RJD at August 15, 2020 09:40 PM (ucNdt)

494 Nobody wants to go fishing?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:41 PM (x8Wzq)

495 I originally thought the Pet Shop Boys were singing "Western Girls" rather than West End Girls. What the hell was the West End, anyway?

Besides it made since, since there were references to "in every nation, from Lake Geneva to the Finland Station." So yeah, Eastern Boys wanting Western Girls.
Made sense to teenage me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:41 PM (cfSRQ)

496 Damn #s! 474 and 482...

Posted by: Boy George at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (SaOtR)

497 (You're So Vain) I had no idea why the dude's 'scarf was African,' but it kinda made sense... and why he watched himself 'go by...' in the mirror.......nor did I question why she had 'clowns in my (her) coffee.....'...... and when he went to 'Santa Toga'...and why he spent time with the 'wife of a cloaksman'....whatever that was.

I loved the song, but I was definitely confused. But I accepted her, because of the album cover.




Posted by: goatexchange at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (cBe6V)

498 Bat dreams are made of these
Eatin' skeeters and flappin' wings

Posted by: Miklos with Authentic Bela Lugosi Accent at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (QzkSJ)

499 Science tells us that the 80s saw the greatest
variety of music in human history. More genres, more widely distributed
than ever before.

Now it's all collapsing in on itself. I tell my kids: "The old world in its sunset was fair to see."

They mostly listen to Dad's music, because it's better than the crap on the radio.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)

I was surprised when the WOPR child never really got into the current music. I think the problem is it is just cookie cutter. What are the odds a song about chess would make the top 40? The songs were simply more varied. Sure you have to sappy love songs. But, you had off beat songs that were good. Rap and hip-hop were a disaster. No instruments, no melody, nothing. Plus, most musicians weren't kids but actual adults. How many kids today would understand the Biblical references in Modern Day Delilah?

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (XNUrO)

500 Perhaps a record for an open thread remaining "on topic"?? All-time?

Not even mammaries or archery choices featured yet?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (OTzUX)

501 I never seen your pizza burnin'
I walked four miles, my feet are hurtin'

Posted by: Golfnut at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (oxOkz)

502 482 Science tells us that the 80s saw the greatest variety of music in human history.

Yes! Just thinking about that myself. The variety was staggering. Someone in the Sterogum comments mentioned that no instrumental has hit the top 10 since the 80s, when tracks like "Rockit" and "Axel's Theme" were the last of them.

Pretty sure the same could be said for foreign-language tracks ("99 Luftaballons" and a lot of other stuff from the 80s, when anything and everything went.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (FtO5h)

503 When he called
his ex-Cream band mate Ginger Baker, he told him, "I'm dying, Ginger,
f*ck you," then slammed down the phone. Baker tried to call back several
times, of course, but Bruce wouldn't pick up. If that is nota true story, it is certainlyplausible.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (lCCR+)

Sounds about right.....I liked Jack Bruce. He was very talented. I thought he had a good voice. Ginger always came across as an asshole.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (Z+IKu)

504 "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (Rvt88)

505 SG Goth @ 456- Inna Gada Da Vida. Little known fact, I sat in a bar and got drunk with their drummer one time. Understood most every word he said.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (XhWtx)

506 West End London?

Posted by: george at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (UJJio)

507 Good luck getting the lyrics to Walk This Way

Back seat lovin'
With a sister in the oven
Only started with a middle kiss
Like this

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 09:44 PM (786Ro)

508 @472 and 484, it's "Kamala Kamala Kamala Chameleon."
Posted by: Boy George


The fun thing is that Boy George is rather Politically Incorrect these days.

Posted by: Miklos, observing at August 15, 2020 09:44 PM (QzkSJ)

509 Weird Al seriously needs to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, if he hasn't been. One of my all-time favorites. The man can parody anything.

His version of Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" is spot-on, down to his imitation of Knopfler's vocal style. Knopfler actually demanded to play guitar on that one, and says his work there is better than on the original.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:44 PM (j3jZX)

510 Not even mammaries or archery choices featured yet?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 15, 2020 09:42 PM (OTzUX)

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Not true. See "electric boobs" mentioned frequently above.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:44 PM (cfSRQ)

511 The Beach Boys, Help Me Rhonda

"Since she put me down I've had owls puking in my bed"

Read that on a website about misheard lyrics. That one stuck in my head.

Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at August 15, 2020 09:45 PM (2+j2N)

512 495 I originally thought the Pet Shop Boys were singing "Western Girls" rather than West End Girls. What the hell was the West End, anyway?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:41 PM (cfSRQ)

I thought it referred to West End, Grand Bahama Island - a mere 60 or so miles east of where I lived as a kid. Now I think it's a neighborhood in London

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (FnwlK)

513 Little known fact, I sat in a bar and got drunk with their drummer one time. Understood most every word he said.
Posted by: Eromero


Your Well Endowed Chair at the Miklos Institute of Linguistics is approved!

Posted by: Miklos, acting dean of Diversity and Inclusion at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (QzkSJ)

514 Pretty sure the same could be said for
foreign-language tracks ("99 Luftaballons" and a lot of other stuff from
the 80s, when anything and everything went.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM (FtO5h)

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ROCK ME AMADEUS!!!

Posted by: Falco at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (cfSRQ)

515 That's what made his parody so good. The man is really talented.
Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (XNUrO)


Check out 'Puddles Pity Party' on you tube. Seriously.

Stairway to Gilligan's Island, is a keeper.

Also dick van dyke and mary poppins sing death metal is pretty good too.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (VcFUs)

516 486 In "Levon" ... Nobody in the States knew what a "garridge" by a " motorway" was. It's a GARAGE, Elton! Say it right! Next to a freeway!

Yep - same with The Clash's "Garageland." It sounded like they were singing "Carriageland" like some kind of bizarre Amish Punk band.

"We're a carriage band! We come from carriage land!"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (FtO5h)

517 Misheard or misremembered lyrics eh? Bone Thugs N Harmony for me growing up.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (V9zvk)

518 I thought it referred to West End, Grand Bahama Island - a mere 60 or so miles east of where I lived as a kid. Now I think it's a neighborhood in London
Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (FnwlK)


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The West End is where all the theaters and Indian food joints are.

Also, Jack the Ripper.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2020 09:47 PM (wPVhA)

519 Here's mary popoins death metal.

https://youtu.be/iU2hy0L5lgg

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:47 PM (VcFUs)

520 456 Inna Gadda Da Veeda may be the most brilliant song EVER. *AND* -- bonus -- it doesn't matter whether the listener is a native English speaker.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:27 PM (KAi1n)

--------------------------

I'll always think of that as

In the Garden of Eden
by I. Ron Butterfly

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:48 PM (CAJOC)

521 SG Goth @ 456- Inna Gada Da Vida. Little known fact, I sat in a bar and got drunk with their drummer one time. Understood most every word he said.
Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 09:43 PM

I hope you refrained from telling him that his solo in that song sounded like a drum kit falling down the Sears Tower stairwell.I

Because that would be mean.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:48 PM (j3jZX)

522 Not true. See "electric boobs" mentioned frequently above.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Not frequently enough.

Posted by: Miklos, they don;t sell those at Harbor Freight neither at August 15, 2020 09:48 PM (QzkSJ)

523 In "Levon" ... Nobody in the States knew what a "garridge" by a " motorway" was. It's a GARAGE, Elton! Say it right! Next to a freeway!

Yep - same with The Clash's "Garageland." It sounded like they were singing "Carriageland" like some kind of bizarre Amish Punk band.

"We're a carriage band! We come from carriage land!"
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:46 PM (FtO5h)

Mo: Ooh, Garage! Fancy.

Homer: what do you call call it?

Mo: A car hole.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:49 PM (x8Wzq)

524 272 A legit one from me:

"Love that feeling in my hands."

Actual lyrics are "Love lies bleeding in my hands"

It's from an Elton John song: "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"

Which by the way is legit epic.

The Dream Theater cover of this song is epic as well.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2020 09:49 PM (lE1L7)

525 Here' Puddles doing Bridge Over Troubled Waters.

https://youtu.be/iU2hy0L5lgg

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 09:49 PM (VcFUs)

526 For the longest time, I thought that that line from Africa by Toto was

"Rises like a memphis above the serengeti"

instead of

"Rises like Olympus above the serengeti"

Had no idea what a memphis was. Figured it was some mythical bird like a phoenix.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:49 PM (CAJOC)

527 All time favorite lyric:

"I know what I am, I'm a hell of a man, AND SO IS LOLA...!

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:50 PM (FnwlK)

528 From Girls Just Want to Have Fun

As heard:
"What in the world can they get done"

Actual:
"When the working day is done"

And, of course, Elton John's "Counting headlice on the highway"

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at August 15, 2020 09:50 PM (8C7+r)

529 Puddles and Haley Reinhardt.

Haley Reinhardt. Mmmm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 15, 2020 09:50 PM (wPVhA)

530 I was one of those who thought that there's a wino down the road.

Posted by: RTW at August 15, 2020 09:51 PM (jJlJu)

531 I'll always think of that as

In the Garden of Eden
by I. Ron Butterfly
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:48 PM (CAJOC)

Might be apocrypha, but there is a tale out there that this maybe true. That the singer was muddling through the song.

Eh.

the more you know

*NBC jingle*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:51 PM (x8Wzq)

532 And, of course, Elton John's "Counting headlice on the highway"
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

"What's that in the road, a head?"

Posted by: Curley Q. Link at August 15, 2020 09:51 PM (QzkSJ)

533 Hands @ 507 Dude I was certain that was 'backseat lovin with a sister and a cousin...' I thought Tyler was beining a little.....too... candid?

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2020 09:51 PM (XhWtx)

534 "Rises like Olympus above the serengeti"



Had no idea what a memphis was. Figured it was some mythical bird like a phoenix.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:49 PM (CAJOC)

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I thought it was "leopress."

And doing a quick search, so did a lot of other people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 15, 2020 09:52 PM (cfSRQ)

535 Sweet Dreams is based on 'Hey Diddle, Diddle'. In the video, there is a cow, and a cello (the 'fidddle').

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 15, 2020 09:52 PM (Vy7tf)

536 Walking in Memphis. I never been there, so I was always perplexed about him "walking with my feet ten feet off of beer."

Turns out it's "Beale", which I hear is a famous street.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (j3jZX)

537 470
Unce

Tice

Fee tines a mady


Posted by: Buckwheat Sings at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (h1jJh)

Ohhh TAY!
Knocked me right out of my chair. Very good.

Posted by: dartist at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (+ya+t)

538 "Hang on, Snoopy, Snoopy hang on!"



The Royal Guardsmen actually sing this in "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron."
John Fogerty now deliberately changes the line in "Bad Moon Rising" to "There's a bathroom on the right" when he's in concert. It's also in at least one recorded version.
And I know of one case of premeditated mondegreen-bait: Some years ago there was a stage play, by a very gay British playwright, called "Prick Up Your Ears" ...

Posted by: Herp McDerp at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (GkYgK)

539 Haley Reinhardt. Mmmm.

She's got legs. She knows how to use 'em.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:54 PM (FtO5h)

540 Quarterflash: I'm gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow my tears
What I heard: I'm gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow mighty earth

Posted by: Monsieur Ugarte at August 15, 2020 09:54 PM (hV56q)

541 "And like a lizard that cries in the face of a monster that lives in our dreams
Is there anyone there 'cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe"

Apparently it's little girl, not lizard, and "her", not "our".

Their diction on that song is terrible, BTW. There's another line I can never make out but sounds like:

"You should know better you never listen to what I said
Puts in your pillow arriving when the n*****s sweat
Hoping somebody someday will do you like I dare!"

Apparently it's:
"Clutching your pillow and writhing in a naked sweat
Hoping somebody someday will do you like I did"

Which is actually reassuring.

And in the bridge:
"When there's a cure
There's a drug
There's a painful love
And it's me
But it's all in control
There's a thrill
When you sail
When you feel
That I break on the waves
That you're acting on"

The actual lyrics are:
"Does it kill
Does it burn
Is it painful to learn
That it's me
That has all the control
Does it thrill
Does it sting
When you feel what I bring
And you wish that you had me to hold"

And in that case, f*** Maroon 5, the misheard version of their lyrics is way better on the bridge and I refuse to stop singing it.

Posted by: FlamethrowerInTheDark at August 15, 2020 09:54 PM (1o4hM)

542 536 Walking in Memphis. I never been there, so I was always perplexed about him "walking with my feet ten feet off of beer."

Turns out it's "Beale", which I hear is a famous street.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (j3jZX)

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I'd always heard "bier", which Bing tells me is "a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave."

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 15, 2020 09:55 PM (CAJOC)

543 Posted by: Buckwheat Sings at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (h1jJh)

Ohhh TAY!
Knocked me right out of my chair. Very good.
Posted by: dartist

Now do "Wish Cotton was a Monkey".

I mean the EuroDisco Extended Version.

Posted by: Miklos, now is time for dancings at August 15, 2020 09:55 PM (QzkSJ)

544 What I heard: I'm gonna harden my heart I'm gonna swallow mighty earth
Posted by: Monsieur Ugarte at August 15, 2020 09:54 PM (hV56q)

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Can I buy some pot from you?

Posted by: Larry Kroger at August 15, 2020 09:56 PM (wPVhA)

545 He was looking for a place called Ho Lee Fooks. (Ever since 2013....)

Posted by: Rex B at August 15, 2020 09:56 PM (SaOtR)

546 Mungo Jerry 'In the Summertime' - bunches of decipherable stuff in there

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (FnwlK)

547 Walking in Memphis. I never been there, so I was always perplexed about him "walking with my feet ten feet off of beer."

Turns out it's "Beale", which I hear is a famous street.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (j3jZX)

thank you.

Having never been to Memphis, I had no fucking clue was "bleat" was. Very off-putting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (x8Wzq)

548 It's a fine, fine time, for Avery Union"

Great video for that song. Of course, I didn't see it until 35 years later.

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (vOGqy)

549 Ohhh TAY!
Knocked me right out of my chair. Very good.
Posted by: dartist at August 15, 2020 09:53 PM (+ya+t)

Loved when he introduced his good friend Mitt Dagger (played by Tim Curry, who did look a whole lot like Mick Jagger at the time!)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (FtO5h)

550 Haley Reinhardt. Mmmm.

She's got legs. She knows how to use 'em.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Left Right Left Right

Posted by: D.I. Miklos, don't call me Sir! at August 15, 2020 09:58 PM (QzkSJ)

551 CCR- Fortunate Son

But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a 'Roman Sieve, yeah'

Posted by: Mainah at August 15, 2020 09:58 PM (DxMgH)

552

Alice Cooper's School's Out:

We can't even think of a word that rhymes.


Was he stuck for a word and just left as I can't think of a word?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:59 PM (lCCR+)

553 I misheard most of the lyrics on Blue Oyster Cult's "black white" albums.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 09:59 PM (KAi1n)

554 503 When he called
his ex-Cream band mate Ginger Baker, he told him, "I'm dying, Ginger,
f*ck you," then slammed down the phone. Baker tried to call back several
times, of course, but Bruce wouldn't pick up. If that is nota true story, it is certainlyplausible.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:36 PM (lCCR+)

Sounds about right.....I liked Jack Bruce. He was very talented. I thought he had a good voice. Ginger always came across as an asshole.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy



I have read that both Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were both very strong willed (i.e. gaping assholes). Ole Eric Clapton was stuck in the middle.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 15, 2020 09:59 PM (1o/v3)

555 546 Mungo Jerry 'In the Summertime' - bunches of decipherable stuff in there
Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (FnwlK)

Sorry - should be UNdecipherable......

Need another beer....

Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 10:00 PM (FnwlK)

556 Alice Cooper's School's Out:

We can't even think of a word that rhymes.


Was he stuck for a word and just left as I can't think of a word?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:59 PM (lCCR+)

I think it was intentional. Alice is not dumb.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 10:00 PM (x8Wzq)

557 FUN FACT

The name "BB" King came from the early child prodigy period, when Riley King began performing at a young age as the "Beale Street Blues Boy".

Posted by: Miklos, the More you Know at August 15, 2020 10:00 PM (QzkSJ)

558 Mungo Jerry 'In the Summertime' - bunches of decipherable stuff in there
Posted by: Anonymous guy in Ca at August 15, 2020 09:57 PM (FnwlK)

Best Fro Ever on a white dude for Ray Dorset though....and side burns too!

He looked far out.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2020 10:00 PM (Z+IKu)

559 I was surprised when the WOPR child never really got into the current music. I think the problem is it is just cookie cutter. What are the odds a song about chess would make the top 40? The songs were simply more varied. Sure you have to sappy love songs. But, you had off beat songs that were good. Rap and hip-hop were a disaster. No instruments, no melody, nothing. Plus, most musicians weren't kids but actual adults. How many kids today would understand the Biblical references in Modern Day Delilah?
Posted by: WOPR -

Seldom do I run into young people who are down with current music. I think both my nephew and niece are far more into the music I grew up with in the 1980s than anything playing on radio today.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2020 10:01 PM (lE1L7)

560 "A Fine, Fine Day" was a great song! Man, is that one ripe for a cover version since no one remembers it.

Tony Carey had been the keyboard player for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Came straight out of nowhere with that excellent Some Tough City album and then disappeared. He did have a minor hit with Planet P.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:01 PM (FtO5h)

561 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=389388


Ont is bood nitches

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2020 10:01 PM (VcFUs)

562 Pink Floyd - The Wall

With helicopter/train background.

In! Get in! Then, get away, then!

or

You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 15, 2020 10:01 PM (KnJdm)

563 Unce

Tice

Fee tines a mady


Posted by: Buckwheat Sings at August 15, 2020 09:31 PM (h1jJh)

Ohhh TAY!
Knocked me right out of my chair. Very good.
Posted by: dartist


But wait!!!

There's more.
Order now and get a second album absolutely free. Hear Buckwheat sing ???

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2020 10:03 PM (axyOa)

564 "Carry a laser through the darkness of the night"

Mr Mister, Kyrie

Posted by: Grace B Uponys at August 15, 2020 10:03 PM (/54AK)

565 Was he stuck for a word and just left as I can't think of a word?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 15, 2020 09:59 PM (lCCR+)

On the other hand, one of Greg Kihn's hits was The Breakup Song. And he said "the Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh" part was something they meant to fill in with words, but never did. Greg is a cool cat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 10:03 PM (x8Wzq)

566 He did have a minor hit with Planet P.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:01 PM (FtO5h)

I have Planet P on vinyl. Really great album. new wave, but very soild.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 10:04 PM (x8Wzq)

567 "We got no class, and we got no principles, we can't even think of a word that rhymes!"

Probably my favorite lyric ever, bar none. You've got a double meaning on "class," a homonym on "principles/principals" and then the snottiest, most punk rock punchline ever.

It's goddam brilliant.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:04 PM (FtO5h)

568 Here's why IGDV is the GOAT. The lyric "in the garden of eden" is lyrical ear candy. You can do so much with it and who isn't receptive to listening to "garden of eden". However, "sonically" "in the garden of eden" doesn't work for that melody at that speed. BUT "inna gadda da veeda" does! Perfectly! We laugh at/mock it because of its backstory, but if you can set that aside, it's tasty. The thing is, everyone knows it means "in the garden of eden" so that's how your brain interprets it, without the distraction of "in the garden of eden".

Posted by: SFGoth at August 15, 2020 10:04 PM (KAi1n)

569 Howz about "Mairszedoats and doesedoats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy to why don't you? That was old before I was born, 80 years ago. It was popular early WW2.


Mares eat oats and does eat oats for all you young whippersnappers.

Posted by: Ol' Country boy at August 15, 2020 10:05 PM (Zd+Sa)

570 I have Planet P on vinyl. Really great album. new wave, but very soild.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 10:04 PM (x8Wzq)

Just "spinning" it on Youtube myself! A commenter on Stereogum put up the "Fine, Fine Day" video which led me down the rabbit hole.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:06 PM (FtO5h)

571 Like an easy chair, like an easy chair
(Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends?)

Posted by: RTW at August 15, 2020 10:07 PM (jJlJu)

572 Just "spinning" it on Youtube myself! A commenter on Stereogum put up the "Fine, Fine Day" video which led me down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:06 PM (FtO5h)

"Why Me?" is the one song that people may have heard on the radio, but the whole album is really amazing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at August 15, 2020 10:08 PM (x8Wzq)

573
Lou do wop the saxophone
And play just what I feel
Drink scotch whiskey all night long
And Donna's on the wheel

They got a name for the weiners in this world
I got a name that I lose
They call Al Manna the pins all died
They call me deegan blues

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 10:09 PM (786Ro)

574 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 15, 2020 10:10 PM (2NQZE)

575 Okay I half made up those Steely Dan lyrics. But I never did hear them right. Had to look them up.

Posted by: Hands at August 15, 2020 10:10 PM (786Ro)

576 Way back when, a friend's mother who was somewhat hard of hearing asked what was up with this song she kept hearing about a "Bald Headed Woman".

Took us awhile to figure out she meant the BeeGees "More Than a Woman".

Posted by: MikeInFairfax at August 15, 2020 10:14 PM (sb1xH)

577 I'm a man,
yes I am,
cuz i have a Y chromosome


Also, I had a friend who honestly thought "Can't buy me love" was "Camp Bobby Love"

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 15, 2020 10:14 PM (RHFvJ)

578 My sister thought you would rock and roll all night and part of every day

Posted by: Nodnol at August 15, 2020 10:17 PM (E6+d2)

579 Back in the day we used giggle and wonder if the lyrics for "Dancin' in the Street" were telling the boys to:

"Grab a girl. Everywhere around the world they'll be dancin."

or "Grab a girl everywhere. Around the world they'll be dancin."


I don't think 19 year old girls would find this humorous today. I don't think they would find humor in much of anything anymore.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 15, 2020 10:20 PM (8/7u2)

580 I don't think 19 year old girls would find this humorous today. I don't think they would find humor in much of anything anymore.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 15, 2020 10:20 PM (8/7u2)

Just watching the video for Tracey Ullman's girl-group throwback "They Don't Know" and there's a scene where a grocery store manager grabs her ass as she's walking down the aisle (it's not shown but implied) and she just makes an annoyed face and goes on singing and shopping.

I was like, yeah, these days she'd have him arrested on the spot, and he'd never work again. In the 80s it was played for laughs. And she got lucky with Paul McCartney at the end of the video.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:25 PM (FtO5h)

581 .
How about Faith Hill's big hit, Kiss This, Kiss This?

Posted by: Mongo at August 15, 2020 10:26 PM (IU8aO)

582 My favorite misheard hymns are:

Gladly, the Cross Eyed Bear.
Lead on, Oh, Kinky Turtle

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at August 15, 2020 10:32 PM (NEq6T)

583 I spent a year in Vietnam thinking "Reach out in the Darkness" was "Freak out in the Garden." Works just as well.

Posted by: Mahon at August 15, 2020 10:36 PM (Y2DbM)

584 Another example of the wild and wonderful variety in 80s music: The Housemartins' "Caravan of Love."

British alternative group who identified as "Christian Socialists" drop their instruments and nail the a capella shit out of an Isley Brothers Christian song. And it was no studio trickery. They could and did pull it off live. No auto-tune, no backing tapes. Sounds as great today as it always did.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/d8ybs67

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 15, 2020 10:40 PM (FtO5h)

585 I used to hear my mother sing Mairzy dotes and dozy dotes and little lambsies diving, a kiddly ivy too...It was quite a revelation learning that it is "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy..."

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at August 15, 2020 10:56 PM (0tmoY)

586 "Roller Coaster of Love" Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

My kids heard, and sang with enthusiasm every time it came on the radio:

"Holy Toaster, of love."

Posted by: Mickey Mazzwell at August 15, 2020 11:10 PM (nHon6)

587 Otters are Seals by the Go-Go's

Posted by: Chicago Vota at August 15, 2020 11:17 PM (WVSR6)

588 The first noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields...

How do you certain someone?

Posted by: Texican ette at August 15, 2020 11:18 PM (0iWjY)

589 Carroll was left of Kameltoe

Posted by: W at August 15, 2020 11:41 PM (olvG6)

590 John Cougar Mellancamp's song "Pop Singer" made sense in my version back in the late 80s:

Original:
"I never wanted to be no Pop Singer,
Never wanted to write no Pop Songs."

I heard:
"Never wanted to be no Bob Seger,
Never wanted to write no Bob Songs."

Made perfect sense. Though I did not like Mellencamp much, I hated the never ending replaying of the same Bob Seger songs on the radio. All I could think was "Hey, Johnny boy grew some balls! Awesome."

Posted by: BigSam at August 15, 2020 11:43 PM (5zAjT)

591 My mom thought it was "four hundred children" in the Waylon song. We couldn't understand why she kept laughing when she got to that part.

Posted by: RTW at August 15, 2020 11:53 PM (jJlJu)

592 The awesome teenage Girl Group the Shangri-las: lead singer Mary Weiss, rhapsodizing about her dreamy beatnik boyfriend in *Give Him A Great Big Kiss*, says, "He's always lookin' like-ah, he got the blues", but I hear "He's always lookin' like a heap of bad news!" and I still think I'm right. The way she describes that loser, he is definitely a heap of bad news.

Posted by: littlemary at August 16, 2020 12:46 AM (Es+I8)

593 Kelp
I need some seaweed
Kelp
Not just any seaweed
Kelp
You know I need seaweed
KELP

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 16, 2020 01:02 AM (mNhhD)

594 Let's hang onTo what we've gotAnd don't let it go'Cause we've got a lotGot a lot of lumpy peanutsHang on, hang on, hang onTo what we;'ve got

Posted by: Whiggish_Boffin at August 16, 2020 01:34 AM (i7LcK)

595 Olive, the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names...

Posted by: Marietta at August 16, 2020 01:36 AM (AL+tu)

596 Like a cheese stick, like a cheese stick...

Oh, G6?

I'm not big on salty faces, let me slip on down to the Oasis!

Posted by: Hazchic at August 16, 2020 02:23 AM (/2qBx)

597 In church: Lead on King Eternal became
Lean On Kinky Turtle.

Posted by: Annie at August 16, 2020 02:51 AM (YccS3)

598 Hey Hey we're the MonkeesCome and watch us sing and playCuz we're the young generation,and we've got Sadaam Hussein.
(And I thought it was the Seals!:-) )

Posted by: JB at August 16, 2020 03:08 AM (OJ6kV)

599 Well, I'm not dumb
but I can't understand
why she walks like a woman
and pees like a man

LOLA

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2020 03:16 AM (arJlL)

600 I can't believe nobody did

Bomb, bomb, bomb
Bomb Iran...

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2020 03:17 AM (arJlL)

601 Three dogs sledding on a Saturday night. I've never seen such a beautiful sight.

Posted by: fktheleft at August 16, 2020 04:55 AM (lvXKd)

602 One good one? Ok, the lyric/song title that introduced me to this fascinating subject was: Alex the Seal by 'The Go Go's'

I saw it on a Web site called "www dot KissThisGuy dot com" (not sure if you allow live links in the comments) and was hooked on the topic. In the early days it was all natural mistakes, but I think a great many of the later entries were kinda faked "mis-hearings" just so people could get their name up on the web site.
However, to this day, I giggle every time I think of Alex the Seal. (Original song - Our Lips are Sealed - obviously)

Posted by: Shaun at August 16, 2020 04:57 AM (dCYtD)

603 "I want to lie, shitfaced and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice ... "

(Red Dwarf theme)

Posted by: Corndog at August 16, 2020 05:13 AM (V2CIU)

604 "You don't need a pinhead, just to hang around ..." (From "Down on the Corner")

Posted by: Corndog at August 16, 2020 05:17 AM (V2CIU)

605 California Dreamin (Mommas and Papas)
I get down on my knees and I begin (pretend) to pray.

Posted by: Kurtz at August 16, 2020 06:51 AM (h+6I8)

606 Slow-walk-in Walter
The fire engine guy

Posted by: Stvitalkid at August 16, 2020 06:58 AM (6Y/1Q)

607 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=nIwrgAnx6Q8&feature=emb_logo

All time fav

Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2020 07:30 AM (ETZCX)

608 "Every rose has it's thorn" sounded like "every road has it's song".
And the all time puzzler: When Elvis sang "I'm all shook up", I could only hear "ahmawshuggah".

Posted by: fenderbender at August 16, 2020 07:40 AM (r72iY)

609 she's got a chicken to fry

Posted by: rozel at August 16, 2020 08:24 AM (EJ2Rs)

610 I love burlesque now. Till the end of time.

Posted by: Detroit Pete at August 16, 2020 08:31 AM (JlX4p)

611 I'm not talkin' bout millennium.

Posted by: Detroit Pete at August 16, 2020 08:41 AM (JlX4p)

612 I heard 'Hang on Sloopy' as 'Hang on Stupid'. I still sing along with it this way all these years later.

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at August 16, 2020 09:02 AM (zyvA4)

613 Still trying to figure out "Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief." Cyanide...TNT...HIGH MOUNTAINS! Thunder Chief.

Posted by: Redphang at August 16, 2020 10:53 AM (FGPDC)

614 As a song writer (in the low thousands) I often (nearly every song) put in a few of these. The ambiance of ambiance is swashbuckling.I learned my craft partly from 50s and songs pop songs. Louie Louie is a fave. Also, trying to make them dirty-clean with this trick was a fave for many of us in the 60s. The Rolling stones made a mark in their early careers by purposely making the lyrics non understandable. Of course the Beatles did it as well, but with a lot more craft and subtly. Let give a big hand to Billy Shears and the Sgt Spielunkers Bony Farts club land.

Posted by: Ray Mota at August 16, 2020 10:53 AM (AVxHd)

615 When I was a kid, we often sang "Let Freedom Ring" in school. Here's what I sang because this is what I heard:

My country tis a "V"
Sweet land of liverty
A "V" I sing.

Posted by: RalphF at August 16, 2020 11:39 AM (+3O5L)

616 I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking to your sheep

Posted by: dogsledder at August 16, 2020 11:50 AM (OPB8z)

617 Blinded by the light.

Wrapped up like a goose, you know the bowler on the right.

Posted by: papertiger at August 16, 2020 12:25 PM (SYEvH)

618 Joe Cocker ~ With A Little Help From My Friends ~ What Did He Say?

https://youtu.be/SAxGUJepnoY

I don't think Joe even knows.

Posted by: papertiger at August 16, 2020 12:34 PM (SYEvH)

619 Marshall Tucker Band -- Heard it in a love song "ten feet long"

Posted by: PaddyBeaner at August 16, 2020 01:41 PM (5Mmke)

620 ACDC

Dirty jeans
Thunder cheeks

Still hear those words.

Posted by: BigWazoo at August 16, 2020 03:32 PM (o2yR3)

621 Test

Posted by: Mongerel at August 16, 2020 05:16 PM (gDaiZ)

622 This is one of the most remarkable threads, for both staying on-topic and enduring.

Is a still-active thread "old," as in "you'll get banned" old? Let's find out!

Also, I had a friend who honestly thought "Can't buy me love" was "Camp Bobby Love"
Posted by: WaitingForMartel


My older sister was dating a guy named Bobby when that came out, and that's what she heard. She was devastated. I (secretly) larfed.

Posted by: mindful webworker
clik4tale: he had a quiet gift to share
at August 16, 2020 05:39 PM (wKcYr)

623 Uhhhh... sister heard "Can't Bobby Love."

I misread the misheard.

Posted by: mindful webworker
clik4tale: he had a quiet gift to share
at August 16, 2020 05:41 PM (wKcYr)

624 ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

I first heard this as "every woman loves her shot glass man".

Man, women sure do love alcoholics.

Posted by: Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars at August 16, 2020 08:12 PM (DWZZP)

625 You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel,
with four hundred children,
and the cops in the field.

Posted by: Fritzy at August 16, 2020 08:40 PM (VY+MJ)

626 High on a hill lived a lonely gopher
lady 0 de lady 0 de lady whooooo

Posted by: KT at August 16, 2020 09:05 PM (BVQ+1)

627 Knowledge is power

France is bacon

Posted by: BillC at August 16, 2020 10:43 PM (3sWOu)

628 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOLPrdd8JvU

Posted by: Aldo at August 16, 2020 11:07 PM (E/eSS)

629 A kindergartner in my sister's class drew a picture of that Nativity Scene with a second, but fatter, baby.
The child informed my sister that this was "Round John Virgin"

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