Misheard Lyrics #1
 

I coldnt see this in the thread guide and I know I occassionally mishear a lyric or have heard someone else sing the wrong words to a song and thought it'd be pretty funny.



A girl I used to work with thought the lyrics to REM's "The sidewinder sleeps tonight" included Calling from Jamaica man. as opposed to Call me when you try to wake her up".

:lol: Cool thread idea! Misheard lyrics can be really funny!

I'm adding it to the board guide. ;)

Real lyrics: These wretched fool's affair
misheard lyrics: These wet shrimp fools have hair

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Has anyone ever seen those books of misheard lyrics by Gavin Edwards? He had collected a ton of them over the years and compiled them into 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, When a Man Loves a Walnut, and a few other books. Most of the misheard lyrics were hilarious as phrases on their own, but never made much sense to me as actual misheard lyrics -- listening to the song, the lyrics that I heard sounded nothing like the "misheard" version of the lyrics; as funny as "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" is in Elton John's "Tiny Dancer," I always just hear the actual lyrics of "Hold me close now, tiny dancer."

A few of the ones he cites really do sound like the misheard versions, though. For example, in the Steve Miller Band song "Jungle Love," the actual chorus says "Jungle love/It's driving me mad/It's making me crazy"...but I defy you not to hear it now as "Chug-a-lug/You strawberry man/You're making me crazy." Hee.

I've done some mishearing of lyrics on my own, but at the moment I'm totally blanking on what those lyrics have been, heh. When I remember any of the funnier ones, I'll post.

The last song that had me singing the wrong words was Miley Cyris - It's the climb, I seemed to hear it as Mystified instead of it's the climb.

:lol: Great thread idea, Karen.

Will think about my misheard songs (now only brazilian ones come to my mind) to post some later :)

Justin Timerblake's Summer Love

Real Lyrics: This just can't be summer love.
Misheard Lyrics: Bitch just give me some love. :lol:

:rotfl: Oh my gosh, that is HILARIOUS.

Real Lyrics (in Russian): Zaichiki na stene,
Misheard lyrics: Fried chicken's nice, yeah yeah...

:lmao: I was wondering why my friends even liked the song! I thought it was so rude :lol:

I heard one of my friends singing this and I had the most horrible laugh attack, and after I told him he told me that he had seriously never knew that he was singing it wrong. :sigh: Man I should have put that in a "Remember when..."

Aerosmith's Dude Looks Like a Lady

Real Lyrics: Dude Looks Like a Lady
Misheard Lyrics: Do Me Like a Lady

My friend had me lauging at this one:

Coldplay's Viva La Vida

Real lyric - Roman Cavalry choir's singing
Misheard lyric - Roman Catholic choirs singing.

Real: Pour some Sugar on Me
My friend goes "Are you listening to Put some sugar on that?

The Katy Perry song "Black and Gold" sounds so much more like "Like a Ghost" to me. And the lyrics totally make more sense that way too! :lol:

^:lol: Put some sugar on that.

For the longest time I thought in You Oughta Know, the lyric:
It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me

Was crossed eyed bear that you gave to me. :look:

Great thread idea! :thumbs_up:

If you enjoy Joe Cocker's A Little Help From My Friends (The Wonder Years Theme Song), you'll enjoy this!



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