We all sing along to our favorite songs, but are we singing the correct lyrics?

For instance, and I was surprised that I wasn't alone, the other day at work I brought this up for a particular song.

Be honest, if I mention "Purty Little Love Song" by the Marshall Tucker Band...how many folks know the song?

It wasn't until a short while ago that I realized it's not right.



There's the always famous "Blinded By The Light"...rapped up like a douche...

And for me "Jack and Diane" by Mellencamp...let the papa bear come and save my soul... ?




What you got?

Keeping with the "Blinded By The Light" theme: ... and little early birdy gave my anus curly whirly, and asked me if I needed a ride...

"there's a bathroom on the right"

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy" - Purple haze

"Sugar fried honey buns" - The Four Tops

The actual term for these is "mondegreen," from an epic poem with the line
"And laid him on the green" which someone misheard as "And Lady Mondegreen."

"Doctors
Are visiting me"
(Darkness
Imprisoning me) - "One", Metallica.

"You got the b!tches I got the weed"
(You got the peaches I got the cream) - "Pour Some Sugar on Me", Def Leppard

I don't think I've ever misheard song lyrics, I either hear them correctly or I find them completely unintelligible until I read the lyrics, then I don't know how I ever didn't know what was being said.

"Hut Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit..."

I must have mis-heard that, surely?

Ken Lee

I've mis-heard a few lyrics, but nothing that I can think of was too embarrassing. One that I know of was from the Eagles' "Take it to the Limit," where I thought they said, "You can spend all your time making love, or you can spend all your love making time." What they really say is "You can spend all your time making money, or you can spend all your love making time." I think I like my version better.

My girlfriend is notorious for mis-hearing lyrics, and one of my favorites is from "Shine," where instead of hearing "Heaven let your light shine down," she heard "Rabbit let your light shine down."

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of coitas, rising up through the air

She's got electric boobs, and mohair shoes -- Elton John, Bennie and the Jets

Wrapped up like a, 'deuce'.

Yeah, I had that one all wrong for half my life also......
Laughed every time I sung it out loud.
Felt like a fool when I discovered how mistaken I was, so many years.

We all make mistakes, 'words', some more serious than others.
I've certainly made my share.....
Hopefully, none very serious.

In Lady Gaga's "Pokerface," I heard "Cutie Pie, Cutie Pie" for "Can't read my, can't read my."

Anything by Def Leppard no matter how hard i try to listen.

Italian singer Nek - Laura non c'�

In the first verse he sings "[...]mi manca da spezzare il fiato", which, the way he pronounces it, eerily sounds like the German "niemand kann das behahlen" (= no one can afford that).

Funny.. I just had a similar email conversation along these lines....

My favorite Mondegreen is:

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds:

"The girl with colitis goes by..."



The first time I heard the Eagles "Life in the Fast Lane" I thought it was "Life in the Bat Plane.."
Listening to 3 Dog Night's "Momma Told me Not to Come (to this party)" I always thought the line"

"I'm lookin' at my girlfriend - she's passed out on the floor"

was..

"....she pissed on the floor"

And in that Eagles song: "and there's a rose in a fisted glove" I always heard "and there's a road ina twisted love."

Heh... and all this time I thought it was "Cherry Pie"!!!

That's actually Stephen Stills, "Love the One You're With."

maybe 40 years ago ,playing in a bar in a small 'rural' community....a very large and very drunk guy wanted us to play "the slow walkin' Walter' song. He was getting very unhappy about it when we said we did not know what the heck he was talking about.

He got more upset and lound about what kind of a stupid band we were that we did not know this very popular song. He eventually did an "air guitar" and belted out " Slow walkin' Walter - The fire engine guy". We then figured out that he wanted Smoke of the Water by Deep Purple...which (Thankfully) we knew

I actually have this song on my phone from my Time Life 70's collection ...

We were listening to Shinedown's 45 yesterday and my oldest son thought he was saying "porcupine" instead of 45...
Not sure how he got, "staring down the barrel of a porcupine"...

I'm terrible at lyrics, even with all the apps out there to help you. I just can't memorize these songs...