Misheard lyrics

[fuzzyjay]

Back in the days before the Intarwebs, you couldn't always get the lyrics of popular songs except by actually buying the record album, which frequently had the lyrics printed on the cover or on the record sleeve.

I used to mishear Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" line which goes:

When the working day is done

as:

What in the world can they have done

And another song that went:

Oh what a lonely boy

as:

Oh what a lovely war

You got any like that?

Comments

[thetarnishedowl.livejournal.com]

Led Zeppelin "you need coolin'" I heard as "you need Kool-Aid"

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

But we all do.

[urbear]

It's a popular topic. Someone published a book about it around ten years ago ('Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy) and of course there's at least one website devoted to the subject.

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

We have Scuse and the follow-up, When A Man Loves A Walnut, but not the Christmas edition, Deck the Halls With Buddy Holly.

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's nice, and I've read stuff on it before, but I'm interested in your story.

Have you never been mellow?

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

On the theme song to One Day At A Time, I always heard "So, walk on your feet ..."

qbear insists it is actually "So, walk on the beat ..."

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I just remembered something similar. It's a lyric that took me months to figure out... Tracy Ullman had a minor hit with "You broke my heart in 17 places" where the line ends with "Shepherd's Bush was only one."

That last bit had me asking everyone I knew, and finally an English guy figured it out for me after I repeated it to him phonetically as "sheh pars pushes only wan."

[wonderboynj.livejournal.com]

In Cyndi Lauper's She Bop, she sings "I don't even understand"

I always thought she was singing "501 don't understand"

Why I didn't make the connection that it didn't make any sense, the world will never know

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Well, my sister thought Blues Traveller was singing "I'm cooking steak and it's smoking; it's bad for me, but anyway" when in fact he was singing "I'm quitting cigarette smoking, it's bad for me, but anyway".

And bitterlawngnome thought "Ferry, cross the Mersey" was "Ferry, cross the Jersey" (moo?).

But me, I always hear lyrics correctly. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

Not mine but.......

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

"The girl with colitis goes by" by the Beatles(Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"Lay Lady Lay,Leopold's Pumping Brass Band...."

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

In Missing Persons' "Color In Your Life" I misheard the line "Welcome to the festival" as "Walk on to the best of all" ...

[tycho-anomaly.livejournal.com]

Donovan's "Sunshine Superman":

Superman of Greenland turned Inca
nothing on me...

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

I was, and still am a massive Marc Bolan fan.
In Telegram Sam he sings:
"Bobby's alright, Bobby's alright, he's a natural born poet he's just outta sight."

I used to think it was:

"Bobby's alright, Bobby's alright, he's a natural born homo he's just outta sight"

I still hear it that way.