Sing the Song Wrong

A throwaway group called Toto Coelo had a song called I Eat Cannibals. My younger sister thought they were singing "I eat cannonballs".

No cannonballs here, no sir.

God rest your fleas, Mrs. Robinson.

listening to sufjan stevens' song chicago

I thought that

"you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to recreate us
all things grow, all things grow
we had our mindset
all things know, all things know
you had to find it
all things go, all things go"


was:

"you came to take us
all things go, all things go
to the Creator.."


life. gotta love it, huh?

"oh, Heather honey..."

was to me

"Go tell a duckie."

C.bronco said:

Led Zeppelin's ZOSO song, don't remember the name, was "walking in the park, hey, would we care to all get in line"
and we thought he was singing, "walking in the park hey whoopee cat..."
What do you have?

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To be fair, Robert Plant doesn't sing the actual lyrics half of the time.

And the song is Misty Mountain Hop.

You give it all you got
then you put it on your big feet
Rag doll, livin' in a movie...

MJ's Billie Jean:

"Billie Jean, at my door" instead of "Billie Jean's not my lover"

Elton John's "Daniel"

"Daniel, my brother, you are both loved and needed"

instead of "Daniel, my brother, you are older than me"

Actually I think I messed up most of the lyrics in that song.

"Just can't wait to get Honda road again"

There she was just a-walkin down the street,
singing do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do.
She looked good, she looked fine,
then I did her one more time.

We walked on to my door,
Then we did it on the floor.


Richard

"I like to throw up in my hair sometimes saying Ayyyo, c'mon leeet's go!"

"Welcome to the new age, to the new age, welcome to the new age, to the new age. I'm READY TO ROCK YOU, READY TO ROCK YOU!"

Neil Diamond's America from his atrocious remake of The Jazz Singer goes, "Far! We've been traveling far!" and not, "Fire! We've been trapped in a fire!"

Of course, we've all sang "Excuse Me, while I KISS THIS GUY" instead of "Kiss the sky!" along with Jimi Hendrix.
Hey, it could happen to anyone....

When I was much younger and heard Jose Feliciano's Christmas song:

"Her knees knocky knock" (instead of Feliz Navidad)

C.bronco said:

I hadn't seen this thread in a long time! It reminds me of being in the car with my parents. Tom Petty's Free Falling was on the radio, and my Dad said, "Tree pollen? why the h&%#! is he singing about tree pollen? !" My mom had to clarify.

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The first few times I heard Tom Petty's "Even the Losers" on the radio, I thought the words in the chorus were: "Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes/Baby, even the losers eat a little bit of pie, they get lucky sometimes"

But when I bought the album I learned that it's "keep a little bit of pride", not "eat a little bit of pie".

It's hard to understand what Tom Petty is singing, because it always sounds like he has allergy problems. Must be the tree pollen...

These are not mine, but my daughter's...

"Somebody saved my life tonight, shoot a bear." (It's actually Sugar Bear) She wanted to know why Elton John wanted to shoot bears.

"Teenage waistband" instead of 'Teenage Wasteland.)

Mine was from Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' - I thought the line 'clouds in my coffee' was clowns in my coffee. Which makes only slightly less sense than the actual line, now that I think about it.

"It's alright. Ain't no God in my house."

This is from Gold on the Ceiling by The Black Keys, and the word is supposed to be "guard" not "God".

But because it's such a boogie-down song (and I didn't really understand the rest of the other lyrics either), I just assumed that line was an exhortation to be hedonistic.

It's weird how mis-heard lyrics sometimes make the song's message seem more powerful or startling than it was intended to be. If the lyric actually was what I had been hearing, I'm sure there'd be a massive outcry over it from certain segments of the population.

star spangled banner

most everyone messes up the lyrics

shameful to be sure

My father thought "Ain't no holler back girl.." was "Ain't no Harley fat girl." He would sing it every morning while he prepared his breakfast, even after I corrected him.

When I lived in Spain, my Spanish boyfriend used to mangle a Sting track thusly

It's no fun being an eagle avian.