Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the hot dogs go on
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Every time I think of it I piss myself.
posted by flabdablet at 8:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 8:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Once a buddy of mine and I were happily and loudly singing along to the classic Tommy James song "Hanging Around" when both of our wives came up and told us "um, guys - it's actually "Dragging the Line". Has been for years". Well, that's obviously not the way WE learned it!
posted by yhbc at 8:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by yhbc at 8:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Always reassuring to see Peter Kay making money by repeating a slightly altered version of something that originally came out of someone else's mouth.
posted by howfar at 8:37 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by howfar at 8:37 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
At the sausage factory, the hot dogs do go on and on until they cut and seal the casings. Occasionally , they do send these to butchers, who will make the hot dogs no longer go on and on for you.
By the way... is this... is this actually a discussion where we can talk about how the sausage is made?
posted by Nanukthedog at 8:42 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
By the way... is this... is this actually a discussion where we can talk about how the sausage is made?
posted by Nanukthedog at 8:42 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
I can't watch this at work, but my personal 'misheard lyrics' is:
Don't go Jason Waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
It's a song about a guy named Jason Waterfalls, you know?
posted by Windigo at 8:44 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
Don't go Jason Waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
It's a song about a guy named Jason Waterfalls, you know?
posted by Windigo at 8:44 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
I still prefer my version of Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."
For years I thought the lyric "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums" was "A warehouse has my Arabian drums." Which in my mind, then became "A werewolf has my Arabian drums."
To me, that's a much more meaningful predicament.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:51 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
For years I thought the lyric "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums" was "A warehouse has my Arabian drums." Which in my mind, then became "A werewolf has my Arabian drums."
To me, that's a much more meaningful predicament.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:51 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
As a kid, I always heard "Paperback Writer" as "Take the last right turn."
posted by Thorzdad at 8:51 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 8:51 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
For a long time I wondered why the Verve were so worked up about trucks not working.
The classic in the genre remains Billy Ocean's 'Go and get stuffed'.
posted by biffa at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018
The classic in the genre remains Billy Ocean's 'Go and get stuffed'.
posted by biffa at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018
Prince: Cream, Sh-boogie bop
Me: Cream, sugar be top
posted by kimberussell at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Me: Cream, sugar be top
posted by kimberussell at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Until my late 20s, I sang from Top Gun, "I went to the danger zone."
My version is better.
posted by eyeofthetiger at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [11 favorites]
My version is better.
posted by eyeofthetiger at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [11 favorites]
Needs the "mondegreen" tag.
My favorite was always
"Take your pants down / Make it happen..."
from Flashdance.
posted by chavenet at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
My favorite was always
"Take your pants down / Make it happen..."
from Flashdance.
posted by chavenet at 8:59 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
Who can forget Steve Miller's "Bingo Jet Had a Light On."
posted by 4ster at 9:02 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by 4ster at 9:02 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
I always like to pretend that anyone listening to "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is being asked to choose between Yukon Sid or me, the young apprentice.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 9:05 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 9:05 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
no this is the all time winner (nearly busted myself laughing the first time I encountered it)
I want a duck shaped like a triangle
You give a toaster to Bob
posted by supermedusa at 9:08 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
I want a duck shaped like a triangle
You give a toaster to Bob
posted by supermedusa at 9:08 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
the best transformation I have accomplished was "only Eden is for millionaires" -> "every Eden is familiar", which is really much nicer
posted by thelonius at 9:09 AM on March 22, 2018
posted by thelonius at 9:09 AM on March 22, 2018
Until I was an adult, I thought "You're The One That I Want" -- the song at the end of Grease that's better covered as death metal -- was one of those 50s/60s nonsense songs and that they were singing "Yuggaleggalaweg, yuggaleggalaleggalaweg, ooh ooh ooh honey."
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 9:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 9:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
My all-time favorite personal mondegreen:
the line from Beck's "Lord Only Knows" which is actually "throwing your two-bit cares down the drain" misheard as "throwing your pubic hairs down the drain." (at 1:18)
posted by dlugoczaj at 9:22 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
the line from Beck's "Lord Only Knows" which is actually "throwing your two-bit cares down the drain" misheard as "throwing your pubic hairs down the drain." (at 1:18)
posted by dlugoczaj at 9:22 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I always like to pretend that anyone listening to "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is being asked to choose between Yukon Sid or me, the young apprentice.
Almost spit out my coffee, right there.
posted by sutt at 9:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Almost spit out my coffee, right there.
posted by sutt at 9:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
For years, I sang Beck's classic song Where It's At with the lyrics "a two-ton turtle and a microphone."
posted by sutt at 9:26 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by sutt at 9:26 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
"I went to the danger zone."
I had to check to see WHY your version wasn't correct!
posted by yhbc at 9:28 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
I had to check to see WHY your version wasn't correct!
posted by yhbc at 9:28 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
I've been told multiple times that Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" contains the line, "I don't feel tardy," but all I hear is, "I don't feel dirty."
posted by wabbittwax at 9:32 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by wabbittwax at 9:32 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
My favourite:
"I've got a penis that'll rip through the very fabric of time".
posted by opsin at 9:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
"I've got a penis that'll rip through the very fabric of time".
posted by opsin at 9:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
"Israeli men, hallelujah"
"There's a bathroom on the right"
posted by pipeski at 10:07 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
"There's a bathroom on the right"
posted by pipeski at 10:07 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I still want to know who Bruce is, and why he's bringing the ELO down.
posted by nubs at 10:10 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by nubs at 10:10 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
My brother used to think that "upside down you're turning me" in the Diana Ross song was "upside down attorney." And for years, I thought that "my poor heart aches" from "Every Breath You Take" was "I'm a pool hall ace."
posted by holborne at 10:18 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by holborne at 10:18 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
Once a buddy of mine and I were happily and loudly singing along to the classic Tommy James song "Hanging Around" when both of our wives came up and told us "um, guys - it's actually "Dragging the Line". Has been for years". Well, that's obviously not the way WE learned it!
posted by yhbc
Wait. What?
posted by Splunge at 10:20 AM on March 22, 2018
posted by yhbc
Wait. What?
posted by Splunge at 10:20 AM on March 22, 2018
I see skies of blue
And clouds so white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say good night
posted by J.K. Seazer at 10:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
And clouds so white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say good night
posted by J.K. Seazer at 10:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
Dirrrty jeans and the thunder pants!
posted by turkeybrain at 10:24 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by turkeybrain at 10:24 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Until my late 20s, I sang from Top Gun, "I went to the danger zone."
Wait, that isn't the lyric? Okay, so up until my mid-40s... sheesh.
When I purchased the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me album it came with lyrics. I discovered that the verse in Just Like Heaven is "I kissed her face and kissed her hair", not "head". In retrospect, this makes sense, since a face is part of a head, and so is hair, so why say face and head? And yet, it sure does sound like head; so much so that the majority of lyric sites use head instead of hair.
posted by linux at 10:33 AM on March 22, 2018
Wait, that isn't the lyric? Okay, so up until my mid-40s... sheesh.
When I purchased the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me album it came with lyrics. I discovered that the verse in Just Like Heaven is "I kissed her face and kissed her hair", not "head". In retrospect, this makes sense, since a face is part of a head, and so is hair, so why say face and head? And yet, it sure does sound like head; so much so that the majority of lyric sites use head instead of hair.
posted by linux at 10:33 AM on March 22, 2018
I thought the chorus to Verve Pipe's The Freshman was
For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe
We never had forty cents [True lyric: We'd ever die for these sins]
We were merely freshmen
posted by Constance Mirabella at 10:48 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe
We never had forty cents [True lyric: We'd ever die for these sins]
We were merely freshmen
posted by Constance Mirabella at 10:48 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Big Old Jed the Wino,
Don't take me too far away.
Big Old Jed the Wino,
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
(For some reason they call this song "Jet Airliner", I don't get why)
posted by BeeDo at 10:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Don't take me too far away.
Big Old Jed the Wino,
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
(For some reason they call this song "Jet Airliner", I don't get why)
posted by BeeDo at 10:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Wait. What?
Maybe that wasn't clear. We had both independently come up with the "wrong" lyrics and had been singing them the wrong way to ourselves all our lives. When the song came on the jukebox we both thought the lyrics were "Hanging around", not "dragging the line".
posted by yhbc at 10:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Maybe that wasn't clear. We had both independently come up with the "wrong" lyrics and had been singing them the wrong way to ourselves all our lives. When the song came on the jukebox we both thought the lyrics were "Hanging around", not "dragging the line".
posted by yhbc at 10:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hundred children and a crotch that won't heal.
posted by soelo at 11:06 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by soelo at 11:06 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
Partially English lyrics from the theme song to an anime that I was watching with a friend and honestly only remember for this: CHICKEN SUGAR SUGAR - CHICKEN LOVE YES
I actually like this song, but only with the chicken lyrics. It's not worth listening to if it's not about chicken.
posted by Sequence at 11:35 AM on March 22, 2018
I actually like this song, but only with the chicken lyrics. It's not worth listening to if it's not about chicken.
posted by Sequence at 11:35 AM on March 22, 2018
The Police - Mary in a Coma.
REM "call me in. call me in to talk. talk about the passion".
INXS - You want to make her a soup or salad bar.
posted by The_Vegetables at 11:43 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
REM "call me in. call me in to talk. talk about the passion".
INXS - You want to make her a soup or salad bar.
posted by The_Vegetables at 11:43 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Gold
posted by New England Cultist at 11:43 AM on March 22, 2018
posted by New England Cultist at 11:43 AM on March 22, 2018
Never heard of this legend, and mondegreens have been much discussed at least since 1992 on The WELL (an early online network).
As for REM, that's kind of by design. Apparently they filtered their early albums specifically to make the words unintelligible, removing frequencies essential to parsing them.
posted by msalt at 11:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
As for REM, that's kind of by design. Apparently they filtered their early albums specifically to make the words unintelligible, removing frequencies essential to parsing them.
posted by msalt at 11:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Maybe that wasn't clear. We had both independently come up with the "wrong" lyrics and had been singing them the wrong way to ourselves all our lives. When the song came on the jukebox we both thought the lyrics were "Hanging around", not "dragging the line".
As I read Splunge's comment, he also believed, until 11:25 AM EDT today, that the title of the Tommy James song was "Hangin' Around."
posted by holborne at 11:54 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
As I read Splunge's comment, he also believed, until 11:25 AM EDT today, that the title of the Tommy James song was "Hangin' Around."
posted by holborne at 11:54 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
I see skies of blue
And clouds so white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say good night
J.K. Seazer, that is the exact one I came in here to post. I was in my 20s before I realized that was not what Louis Armstrong was singing.
Of course there is also the well-known Go-Go's song about that minx Olive Cecile. (Dear lord, Belinda Carlisle is so young in that video. They are all so young in that video.)
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
And clouds so white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say good night
J.K. Seazer, that is the exact one I came in here to post. I was in my 20s before I realized that was not what Louis Armstrong was singing.
Of course there is also the well-known Go-Go's song about that minx Olive Cecile. (Dear lord, Belinda Carlisle is so young in that video. They are all so young in that video.)
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:55 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Strangers waiting up and down the boulevard; their
shadows searching in the night.
Streetlights people, heaven is defined a moose and
hiding somewhere in the night.
posted by cardioid at 12:05 PM on March 22, 2018
shadows searching in the night.
Streetlights people, heaven is defined a moose and
hiding somewhere in the night.
posted by cardioid at 12:05 PM on March 22, 2018
A baby's head
With a woman's eyes
(is the beginning of Hall & Oates 'Sara Smile', sorry, it just is)
posted by Ennis Tennyone at 12:42 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
With a woman's eyes
(is the beginning of Hall & Oates 'Sara Smile', sorry, it just is)
posted by Ennis Tennyone at 12:42 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
You don't need a pinhead just to hang around
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay that money down
posted by mogget at 12:45 PM on March 22, 2018
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay that money down
posted by mogget at 12:45 PM on March 22, 2018
When the song came on the jukebox we both thought the lyrics were "Hanging around", not "dragging the line".
I made the same mistake and was similarly embarrassed out of it many years ago. How does that happen? It doesn't sound like "hanging around" now that I listen more carefully. Is "dragging the line" so unlikely that our brains replaced it with a much likelier phrase?
posted by pracowity at 12:47 PM on March 22, 2018
I made the same mistake and was similarly embarrassed out of it many years ago. How does that happen? It doesn't sound like "hanging around" now that I listen more carefully. Is "dragging the line" so unlikely that our brains replaced it with a much likelier phrase?
posted by pracowity at 12:47 PM on March 22, 2018
I made the same mistake and was similarly embarrassed out of it many years ago. How does that happen? It doesn't sound like "hanging around" now that I listen more carefully. Is "dragging the line" so unlikely that our brains replaced it with a much likelier phrase?
I have never heard the song before but took a listen and I can confidently say if I did not know the name of the song I would definitely interpret it as "hanging around"; it's easy to hear it that way if I think about it. Definitely based on what you expect, I think.
posted by solarion at 12:58 PM on March 22, 2018
I have never heard the song before but took a listen and I can confidently say if I did not know the name of the song I would definitely interpret it as "hanging around"; it's easy to hear it that way if I think about it. Definitely based on what you expect, I think.
posted by solarion at 12:58 PM on March 22, 2018
Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
LUCKY STAR bonita
I have sang those lyrics for 20 odd years and only realized my mistake a few months ago when I heard them introduce the song by name :(
posted by JenThePro at 1:07 PM on March 22, 2018
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
LUCKY STAR bonita
I have sang those lyrics for 20 odd years and only realized my mistake a few months ago when I heard them introduce the song by name :(
posted by JenThePro at 1:07 PM on March 22, 2018
Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another roller in the night… repeat ad infinitum.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 1:57 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 1:57 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
I thought the chorus to Nirvana's song "School" went "Don't listen! Don't listennnn...", which to high-school-me was a call to non-conformity.
Later I learned that it's "No recess!".
posted by good in a vacuum at 2:14 PM on March 22, 2018
Later I learned that it's "No recess!".
posted by good in a vacuum at 2:14 PM on March 22, 2018
Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another roller in the night… repeat ad infinitum.
My opinion: this lyric was meant to be misheard, as the original Springsteen lyric was 'cut loose like a deuce' referring to a little deuce coupe. It would sound sloshy with the original line "cut loosh like a douche"
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:15 PM on March 22, 2018
My opinion: this lyric was meant to be misheard, as the original Springsteen lyric was 'cut loose like a deuce' referring to a little deuce coupe. It would sound sloshy with the original line "cut loosh like a douche"
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:15 PM on March 22, 2018
Until just last year, when friends attempted it at karaoke, I thought the Toto lyric was, "...Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti."
posted by merriment at 2:49 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by merriment at 2:49 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body like a toothbrush
posted by randomination at 2:57 PM on March 22, 2018
Shake your body like a toothbrush
posted by randomination at 2:57 PM on March 22, 2018
Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, another roller in the night… repeat ad infinitum.
See also: Held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night...
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:12 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
See also: Held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night...
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:12 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
You don't need a pinhead just to hang around
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay that money down
Long ago, there was a real band named after this modegreen.
posted by vers at 3:18 PM on March 22, 2018
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay that money down
Long ago, there was a real band named after this modegreen.
posted by vers at 3:18 PM on March 22, 2018
Let's dance, let's shout
Shake your body now and do it proud
posted by bink at 3:48 PM on March 22, 2018
Shake your body now and do it proud
posted by bink at 3:48 PM on March 22, 2018
...much discussed at least since 1992 on The WELL (an early online network).
When people feel they have to explain what The WELL was, you know you’ve walked this earth far too long.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:57 PM on March 22, 2018 [5 favorites]
When people feel they have to explain what The WELL was, you know you’ve walked this earth far too long.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:57 PM on March 22, 2018 [5 favorites]
I still want to know who Bruce is, and why he's bringing the ELO down.
But that's...
...that's the...
* goes off to Google *
Well holy shit.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:40 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
But that's...
...that's the...
* goes off to Google *
Well holy shit.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:40 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Until my late 20s, I sang from Top Gun, "I went to the danger zone."
I don't care if it is "Highway to the danger zone", I'm sticking to my guns on this one, sunk costs and all...
posted by qwip at 5:17 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I don't care if it is "Highway to the danger zone", I'm sticking to my guns on this one, sunk costs and all...
posted by qwip at 5:17 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Obscure - but Mrs. W heard Iron Maiden's Can I Play With Madness as Can I Play With Matches, which also works...
posted by wittgenstein at 5:40 PM on March 22, 2018
posted by wittgenstein at 5:40 PM on March 22, 2018
I thought the Toto lyric was, "...Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti."
Back in the day I heard it as "rises like a leoparess," like a made up word for a female leopard. Or like a woman with leprosy I guess.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:53 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Back in the day I heard it as "rises like a leoparess," like a made up word for a female leopard. Or like a woman with leprosy I guess.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:53 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Stevie Nicks: Edge of Seventeen "just like a one winged dove," which is a probably a better metaphor for adolescence than the actual lyric! Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl "Gunning down the old man with a transistor radio" vs "going down the old mine with a transistor radio." The alternate lyrics really evoke a scene of an old timer (or a father) being aurally assaulted with rock music from a transistor radio.
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 7:19 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 7:19 PM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Stevie Nicks: Edge of Seventeen "just like a one winged dove,"
...instead of the real lyrics, "just like a Y-Wing does..."
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 7:27 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
...instead of the real lyrics, "just like a Y-Wing does..."
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 7:27 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Cheese as sweet as Tupelo honey...
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 10:04 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 10:04 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
'll be so careful I'll hold your vagina
I'll promise not to hurt you I'll hold your vagina
You won't feel nothing, I'll hold your vagina
'Cause I know it's your first time
Surely, hold you like china was not what Phil Collins was saying.
posted by waving at 1:04 AM on March 23, 2018
I'll promise not to hurt you I'll hold your vagina
You won't feel nothing, I'll hold your vagina
'Cause I know it's your first time
Surely, hold you like china was not what Phil Collins was saying.
posted by waving at 1:04 AM on March 23, 2018
I'd never heard that Phil Collins song but fuck it's creepy.
posted by howfar at 2:46 AM on March 23, 2018
posted by howfar at 2:46 AM on March 23, 2018
the original Springsteen lyric
that was a cover
I'm sorry, I don't follow?
The song Blinded by the Light was originally written by Bruce Springsteen, and then Manfred Man Earth Band made it famous and changed the lyrics to make people think they were saying "wrapped up like a douche" in a bit of what I'd call dumb/smart cleverness.
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:28 AM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
that was a cover
I'm sorry, I don't follow?
The song Blinded by the Light was originally written by Bruce Springsteen, and then Manfred Man Earth Band made it famous and changed the lyrics to make people think they were saying "wrapped up like a douche" in a bit of what I'd call dumb/smart cleverness.
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:28 AM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
I'd never heard that Phil Collins song but fuck it's creepy.
I just listened to it and it's awful, but he is definitely saying 'like China' in a ridiculously English-enunciated way, even though it makes no sense whatsoever and the lyrics have nothing to do with China the country. I guess he maybe means fine China plates?
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:55 AM on March 23, 2018
I just listened to it and it's awful, but he is definitely saying 'like China' in a ridiculously English-enunciated way, even though it makes no sense whatsoever and the lyrics have nothing to do with China the country. I guess he maybe means fine China plates?
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:55 AM on March 23, 2018
There’s a young man that I know
Whose age is twenty one
Comes from down in southern Colorado
Just out of the circus...
I honestly thought that song was about a clown. Clowns work in rodeos.
---
Boulet boots! (Ah-ha!)
Take it now or leave it (Ah-ha!)
Now it's all we get (Ah-ha!)
Nothing promised, no regrets
Boulet Booooooots! (Ah-ha!)
They are quality footwear.
---
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin' band
And when I could, I gave that girl a hug
It was quite a long hu-ug!
I thought that was the line until my girlfriend at the time burst into laughter while we were roadtripping through the great state of Minnesota and. Reader, I married her. And she still makes fun of me.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:51 AM on March 23, 2018
Whose age is twenty one
Comes from down in southern Colorado
Just out of the circus...
I honestly thought that song was about a clown. Clowns work in rodeos.
---
Boulet boots! (Ah-ha!)
Take it now or leave it (Ah-ha!)
Now it's all we get (Ah-ha!)
Nothing promised, no regrets
Boulet Booooooots! (Ah-ha!)
They are quality footwear.
---
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin' band
And when I could, I gave that girl a hug
It was quite a long hu-ug!
I thought that was the line until my girlfriend at the time burst into laughter while we were roadtripping through the great state of Minnesota and. Reader, I married her. And she still makes fun of me.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:51 AM on March 23, 2018
"I don't abhor you" by the Culture Club instead of "I'll tumble for you".
I discussed this strange song with friends and not a damn one of them corrected me. Assholes. I can still imagine them snickering at me after I walked away.
posted by srboisvert at 11:07 AM on March 23, 2018 [1 favorite]
I discussed this strange song with friends and not a damn one of them corrected me. Assholes. I can still imagine them snickering at me after I walked away.
posted by srboisvert at 11:07 AM on March 23, 2018 [1 favorite]
Who knows though, srboisvert? They may have all thought the same thing!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:57 AM on March 23, 2018
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:57 AM on March 23, 2018
I collected Mondegreens on the web back in the mid-90s when you could create a website if you knew four HTML tags. I'm sure it's on archive.org somewhere -- the website was called "The Ants Are My Friends." People would submit lyrics they realized they'd gotten wrong.
My favorite:
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Captain Picard on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
posted by tzikeh at 2:09 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
My favorite:
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Captain Picard on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
posted by tzikeh at 2:09 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
Ha - thanks, archive.org!
(I should really transfer all of that awful code to one of my external drives, just for backup)
posted by tzikeh at 2:13 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
(I should really transfer all of that awful code to one of my external drives, just for backup)
posted by tzikeh at 2:13 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
Everybody talks about "wrapped up like a douche" from Blinded by the Light, but no one ever mentions my favorite misheard line from that song, "a little early birdy gave my anus curl a whirly and asked me if I needed a ride."
posted by taquito sunrise at 5:45 PM on March 23, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by taquito sunrise at 5:45 PM on March 23, 2018 [4 favorites]
50 ways to leave your lover include making a new plant stand and no need to be corduroy. Warren Zevon thinks that boys and girls look alike.
posted by daisyace at 6:48 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by daisyace at 6:48 PM on March 23, 2018 [2 favorites]
As a kid, I loved Madonna's "We're Safari". Sure, the pronunciation was kind of weird and it didn't totally make sense with the rest of the lyrics, but what did I know about music?
posted by ktkt at 10:43 PM on March 24, 2018
posted by ktkt at 10:43 PM on March 24, 2018
Men At Work: "Who can it be? Raul" instead of "who can it be now?". I thought it must be a song about a guy named Raul.
posted by qwip at 1:27 PM on March 25, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by qwip at 1:27 PM on March 25, 2018 [1 favorite]
Aha. Ahahahahaha. In a remarkable example of appropriate timing, I am currently sitting drawing with a recording of NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar live performance playing, and it is only now - after thirty years of enjoying this musical - I realise that Mary Magdalene does not actually sing to Jesus that she will "Muffle your hot forehead", but bring "Myrrh for your hot forehead".
I'm a Catholic, I know what myrrh is, I have no excuse. /mutter
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 3:41 PM on April 8, 2018
I'm a Catholic, I know what myrrh is, I have no excuse. /mutter
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 3:41 PM on April 8, 2018
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