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Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:24 pm
by FactualFrank
George Michael - Careless Whisper

When I was younger (like about 7) instead of "Guilty feet have got no rhythm" I thought it was, "Super Ted has got no rhythm".

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Any more ridiculous lyrics you misheard?

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:25 pm
by whentheballmoves
I always think it's need two rifles, not Eton rifles!!!!

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:30 pm
by fidelcastro
'Gimme shelter' by 'The Rolling Stones'

Where it goes "it's just a shot away"

I always thought it was "it's so shadowy"

:oops:

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:30 pm
by Goalposts
i used to think for years the killing joke song follow the leaders said torremolinos could you believe us

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:33 pm
by FactualFrank
I remember another.

Do you know the "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time" line, by Paul McCartney?

I thought it was "Zippy's having a wonderful Christmas time".

It will be no surprise to know, I watched a lot of children's TV programmes as a kid!

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:33 pm
by Darnhill Claret
Cher singing about Seth.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:37 pm
by djt2006
There is a book called ‘ Excuse me while I kiss this guy’ which is about misheard lyrics.

Years ago a girl I used to know used to sing along to Bad moon rising by CCR and thought JF sang “ there’s a bathroom on the right”

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:38 pm
by Dazzler
Sylvester - Do you wanna funk

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:48 pm
by Woodleyclaret
Super Trooper Abba
"When I saw him last night in Tescos"

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:00 pm
by Dazzler
Madonna - La Isla Bonita

"Last night I dreamt of 'some deigo' "

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:17 pm
by Claret
I thought it was “til we play basterd rovers...”
I fee such a fool

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:20 pm
by fidelcastro
Claret wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:17 pm
I thought it was “til we play basterd rovers...”
I fee such a fool
Many still do.

I wonder if they're all the same people who sing in "in our Lancashire rose"

:oops:

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:21 pm
by TheOriginalLongsider
Thought I Predict a Riot was “I got tourettes “

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:22 pm
by Bosscat
A line in Bat out of hell....

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On Cilla Blacks Fat bottom bike
When the metal is hot, and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light

Should be

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver-black phantom bike
When the metal is hot, and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:23 pm
by Vintage Claret
Billy Ocean - thought the chorus was "go and get stuffed not "going gets tough"

Bon Jovi - "it doesn't really matter if we're naked or not" rather than "if we make it or not"

Police singing about 'Sue Lawley'

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:27 pm
by fidelcastro
Here's it explained!

https://youtu.be/u97o1dN4KvA

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:30 pm
by TheFamilyCat
I always thought "Bertie Bee said to Bill Shankly" was "Bertie Mee".

I feel stupid now.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:35 pm
by Hibsclaret
The Mrs seems to think that REM’s sidewinder sleeps tonight is not “call me when you try to wake her up” and is in fact “coming to Jamaica”.......

Very annoying it is too...

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:44 pm
by BFCmaj
My daughter used to sing ‘Pixie Dust’ instead of ‘Exodus’ to Bob Marley.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:28 pm
by timshorts
BFCmaj wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:44 pm
My daughter used to sing ‘Pixie Dust’ instead of ‘Exodus’ to Bob Marley.
Mine used to chant "beardman" instead of "Vietnam" at the end of the track of the same name by Lars Fredericksen and the Blackburns.
Not sure how many of you will know that one though.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:58 pm
by tarkys_ears
"the girl with colitis go by"

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:04 am
by dermotdermot
I always thought that Michael Jackson was singing ‘Keep up, with the Bolshoi, don’t stop till you get enough’.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:18 am
by COBBLE
Libertines: Can't Stanley now.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:56 am
by Prefeot
For “we are the Longside ,Burnley” I thought it was
“We are the offside Burnley”
Mmmmm wait a minute :lol:

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:01 pm
by dougcollins
The words of the prophet are written on the subway walls
and ten meatballs

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:55 pm
by timshorts
dougcollins wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:01 pm
The words of the prophet are written on the subway walls
and ten meatballs
Well to be fair, its over 40 years on, and I still have trouble deciphering some of Geddy's singing - on the Fly by Night album in particular.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:56 pm
by SouthamptonClaret
"I aint no milk terrorist son"

CCR, Fortunate Son. I actually googled Milk Terrorist, thought it might have had something to do with politicians taking milk out of schools!

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:01 pm
by Claretmatt4
For years I used to shout 'beef' whenever Jensen got a touch of the ball.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:25 pm
by thatdberight
timshorts wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:55 pm
Well to be fair, its over 40 years on, and I still have trouble deciphering some of Geddy's singing - on the Fly by Night album in particular.
That's another song.

But, yes, Lee's high pitch can make it hard to understand.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:54 pm
by COBBLE
and an in joke for the Catholics...... "Hail Mary full of grace........ blessed art thou a monk swimming."

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:59 pm
by groove
Stranglers Skin Deep
You better watch out for the schoolies.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:06 pm
by gawthorpe_view
My mother once asked us why Glen Campbell was singing about a right small cowboy.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:10 pm
by Sproggy
I'm dotty on loneliness, motorcycle emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

From above the shed it's a lonely view - Scar Tissue / Chili Peppers

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:16 pm
by Woonderbah
The Reverend Blue Jeans

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:26 pm
by aclaretinstevenage
Gladys Knight and the Pips - You're the Best thing that ever happened to me.

I thought the chorus started -"if Billy Bonds should ever write my life story!.....it is actually "If anyone should ever write.........."

I still hear it my way even now.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:01 pm
by Mayoclaret
Elton John's "Honky Cat"

"When I look back, boy, I must have been green
Bopping in the country, fishing in a stream"

Thought it was (and still do!)…..

When I look back, boy, I must have been green
Bopping in the country, pis*ing in a stream

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:18 pm
by Goobs
No doubt - It's my life

And I've asked myself
How much do you

I always thought it was

I ask myself
How much do you poo

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:51 pm
by claret3561
My mother in law used to love singing along to Billy Joel's I am the elephant man

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:52 pm
by Zom Zom
Madonna - Erotica

"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body..."

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:11 pm
by timshorts
Woonderbah wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:16 pm
The Reverend Blue Jeans
What is it meant to be?

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:19 pm
by Hibsclaret
thatdberight wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:25 pm
That's another song.

But, yes, Lee's high pitch can make it hard to understand.
Yes that’s the spirit of radio from permanent waves.....

Edit. You probably meant generally and the a Fly by Night album in particular...sry

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:21 pm
by Bosscat
Woonderbah wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:16 pm
The Reverend Blue Jeans
timshorts wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:11 pm
What is it meant to be?
Forever in Blue Jeans .... Neil Diamond

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:22 pm
by Bosscat
Zom Zom wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:52 pm
Madonna - Erotica

"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body..."
Now there is a vision I bet Madge never envisaged Zom :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:28 pm
by elwaclaret
Hello, away what a nice day.... for eating trifles.
Eating trifles.


Edit... for years thought the backing singers were singing ‘top banana... top, top banana’ to Elvis’s Rock a Hula

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:39 pm
by thatdberight
Hibsclaret wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:19 pm
Yes that’s the spirit of radio from permanent waves.....

Edit. You probably meant generally and the a Fly by Night album in particular...sry
Sorry. I was just pointing out that the original lyric under discussion wasn't a Rush lyric; it was Paul Simon's - which Peart echoed on 'Spirit of Radio'

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:58 pm
by Stevie2112
thatdberight wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:39 pm
Sorry. I was just pointing out that the original lyric under discussion wasn't a Rush lyric; it was Paul Simon's - which Peart echoed on 'Spirit of Radio'
With the sound of salesmen?

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:05 pm
by Jeffbfc
Most disco songs of the late 70's early 80's.
Was sure it was the same lyric.
This is shite.
Realised it was in my mind only.😉

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:08 pm
by Jeffbfc
dougcollins wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:01 pm
The words of the prophet are written on the subway walls
and ten meatballs
Unfortunately never to be played live by Rush again.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:10 pm
by thatdberight
Jeffbfc wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:08 pm
Unfortunately never to be played live by Rush again.
Never played by Rush ever - see above.

Re: Lyrics you heard wrong

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:45 pm
by CaptainKirk
Sorry if someone has mentioned it already, but the title of this topic should be "Mondegreens"