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    Posted: 31-October-2006 at 15:32

thought the above might make for an interesting topic. As an example in the case of a Joni Mitchell song - woodstock I recall someone singing the line

"By the time we got to woodstock, we were half a mile away" 

You know the sort of thing ...While shepherds washed their socks by night...etc 
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Peter ande's favourite song as sung by Gladys Knight - "Midnight Train to Jordan"

 

Come on someone out there must have other suggestions come on pat, mel rolo anytakers?
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Excellent idea for a thread!

I'm really bad at picking out lyrics, I bet there's a whole bunch I sing wrong without even realising it.

I still sing David Bowie - Changes wrong..

Time may change me
But you cant change time (should be trace time)

and in Oh You Pretty Things I sing

You gotta make way for the Home Superior (Should be Homo).

Don't even start me on Jeremy by Pearl Jam, I just fudge my way through that one

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Zig and Zag used to do a brief piece on morning radio some years ago with misheard lyrics and the one I most remember is from the song "One of my kind" (I think) from the INXS album KICK...the lyric is "You're one of my kind" (surprise surprise) but when he sings it slowly at the end of the verse it sounds like "You wanna buy a kite?"

Edit: Actually, think song is called "Need you tonight" (oops)



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Here's some good ones from http://www.kissthisguy.com/funny.php 

Robert Palmer: Addicted To Love

The real lyrics were:
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.

But misheard as:
Might as well face it, it's my dick that you love.

Bob Dylan: Blowin' In The Wind

The real lyrics were:
The answer, my friend,
is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

But misheard as:
The ants are my friends,
they're blowin' in the wind
The ants are a-blowin' in the wind.

Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer

The real lyrics were:
You'll go down in history

But misheard as:
You'll go down and hit the tree

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Originally posted by Brunswick Brunswick wrote:

Zig and Zag used to do a brief piece on morning radio some years ago with misheard lyrics

Yeah Mel, I remember that. The one I remember most was a lyric that went " God Bless this couple who've married today "

They were casting aspersions on Dave Fanning's equine fetishes ...............

" God Bless this Capall who is married to Dave "

 
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Just read something that sort of fits here someone's younger brother came home from school having learnt the alphabet and recited A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,a lemon and a pea.
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My son came home the other day "Mam we learnt a prayer that said God wasn't in heaven" Im sure many kids have made this mistake

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Love Bob Dylan's 'Not Dark Yet' -
'My sense of humanity has gone down the drain' has been misheard as
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First time I heard "Islands in the stream" Dolly parton and I think Kenny Rogers duet on the radio I thought it was something from Fianna Fail 'cos i heard it as "Ireland's Industry"!

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Thats what it sounds like to me too, Finno!
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I was sound by that time
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For years my sister Colette sang the opening lines to Queens classic Somebody to Love ('Each morning I get up and die a little...') as 'Each morning I write in my Diary...'

 

And she was so sure she was right!

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My friend used to sing Bryan Adams summer of 69

should be "played it til my fingers bled"

she'd sing "played it til my thing was red"

 
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talking heads take me to the river, wash me down is correct

heard as take me to the river, watch me drown
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Listening to the Ramones "I want to be Sedated" of Grove CD1 last night (Thanks again Pete) I caught myself slipping back into bad habits and singing along "I want a piece of  i...it"
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