The most misheard song lyrics
Misheard song lyrics are the stuff of legend, with Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" being a canonical example of what happens when inflection doesn't go as planned (no, it's not "hold me closer, Tony Danza"). Spotify tried to lend a touch of science to our collective inability to hear certain lines as musicians intended them, and conducted a poll to identify the most misquoted song lyrics of all time.
Coming in at No. 1 on the list is Manfred Mann's Earth Band, whose "Blinded By the Light" is often mistaken as including the line "wrapped up like a douche when you're rollin' in the night." The actual line? "Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."
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I am the master of misheard song lyrics. Truly! I've done it all my life, and can't help it! I don't know if it is because I don't hear well, or just misinterpret.
"Rambling Rose" by Nat King Cole was perhaps the first song that I REALLY got wrong. I thought it was "Rabbit and Rose"...
"Lay Down, Lay Down" by Melanie was, I thought, "Play Ground". Ok, so the rest of the words didn't really fit, but I couldn't hear them, either.
But, the absolute WORST, was that I thought The Who's "Who Are You" was "New Orleans". NOOO Orleans, oo oo, oo oo. For years and years I thought that. The funny part is that my friends in college thought the same thing, and we all sang it at the top of our lungs in the car... I didn't have the $$ to buy albums in college, and, obviously they didn't either, or they were wonderfully indulgent!
Oh, and "Blinded by the Light"? I thought it was Blinded by the light, wrapped of like a dulcimer, glowing in the light...
I think it is incurable.
When I was but a wee lad and forced by my parental units to spend Sunday afternoons bored to tears and drawing fights from The Late Misunderstanding on the bulletins in our little ol Presby Church we periodically all had to get up off our collective arses and sing Hymns.
One of particular note was titled, "Gladly the Cross I Would Bear". My Paw, hillbilly joker that he was, always sang "Gladly the Cross Eyed Bear" with the chorus in his badly out of key bass voice. Like Leo Kotke, he sounded like "geese farts on a foggy day". Us yard apes emulated him with glee, much to the ire of our deeply religious Mama.
I guess we didn't really misunderstand them as much as alter them.
It strikes me as really strange (Ril Lee Strained?) how often this occurred-- I frequently do it myself, and so do many people I know.
I wonder why? Maybe its simply because the spoken word is usually just clearer than words when people sing them?
LOL! I know!!!
I have no idea, anymore, what anyone is singing, unless I look up the lyrics.
John,
One of my favorites was when my son was about 4 and heard, "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light". He then turned to me and asked, "Dad, who was Jose and what did he see?" Took a while to stop laughing enough to explain it to him.
Louie, Louie,
grab her way down low.
Louie, Louie,
grab her way down low.
A fine little bitch, she waits for me;
she gets her kicks on top of me.
Each night I take her out all alone;
she ain't the kind I lay at home
Each night at ten, I lay her again;
I fuck my girl all kinds of ways.
And on that chair, I lay her there;
I felt my boner in her hair.
If she's got a rag on, I'll move above;
It won't be long, she'll slip it off.
I'll take her in my arms again;
tell her I'd rather lay her again.
Lord have mercy but that is funny.
LOL, dear Tex!
Last night I had a lettuce land/Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
Dirty deeds
Done with sheep !
ROFLMAO!!!
That's funny!!! Thank God, I'mnot the only one!
"I'm all right", Kenny Loggins. I always think it's saying "Oh, hot peaches, Oh hot peaches"... I think, according to the lyrics site, he is saying, Own heart beating.
That is the funniest thing that Magnum and I have seen in years!
Another Elton John "Someone shaved my wife tonight, now she's bare"
Real words? Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear