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Did you ever personally hear any lyrics wrong and repeat them? Mine was AC/DC. I was going around singing "Dirty Dean and the Thunder Chiefs".
I also thought America was singing "Venture a highway".
I also thought Van Morrison said "Gunning down the old man with a transistor radio".

I thought on Benny and the Jets, Elton John was singing "Fanny Packin' Pets".

"Hold me closer Tony Danza."

"there's a bathroom on the right"

toomanycats wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:43 am "Hold me closer Tony Danza."

This one. I still say it every single time.

"It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight, rising up to see Terrence of Arrival"


Also, Home on the Range. I knew what the lyrics were but I thought it meant that the word "seldom" discouraged people... "Where seldom is heard, (as) a discouraging word...."

My oldest daughter at about 5 years old:

Frosty the snowman, was a jolly happy soul,
With a corn-cob knife and a button nose and two eyes made out of souls.

At one time I misheard some lyric as "Mr. Greenblatt died". When I Google to see if anyone else did, it comes up as the Stones "Start me up", which doesn't seem right.

Houblues wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:15 am At one time I misheard some lyric as "Mr. Greenblatt died". When I Google to see if anyone else did, it comes up as the Stones "Start me up", which doesn't seem right.

Was it:

And I can't remember if I cried, the day Mr. Greenblatt died? (American Pie)

Milkman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:00 am My oldest daughter at about 5 years old:

Frosty the snowman, was a jolly happy soul,
With a corn-cob knife and a button nose and two eyes made out of souls.

Dark and funny! And you reminded me I once thought the Rudolf lyrics were:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it blows

Milkman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 am

Houblues wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:15 am At one time I misheard some lyric as "Mr. Greenblatt died". When I Google to see if anyone else did, it comes up as the Stones "Start me up", which doesn't seem right.

Was it:

And I can't remember if I cried, the day Mr. Greenblatt died? (American Pie)

I don't thnk so. I believe this was many years before that song. But thanks for the suggestion, this is something I've kinda wondered about.

Houblues wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:51 am

Milkman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 am

Houblues wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:15 am At one time I misheard some lyric as "Mr. Greenblatt died". When I Google to see if anyone else did, it comes up as the Stones "Start me up", which doesn't seem right.

Was it:

And I can't remember if I cried, the day Mr. Greenblatt died? (American Pie)

I don't thnk so. I believe this was many years before that song. But thanks for the suggestion, this is something I've kinda wondered about.

are we trying to solve this? Can you hum a few bars? How about voice range, are we talking Ronnie James Dio or more Neil Sedaka?

Randy Owen starts out this video talking about people mishearing his lyrics. (But the royalties are still good! )

not me, but one of contention was "I tell you to end your life, I wish I could, but it's too late".

"Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad"

Wait, those are really the words.....

ID10t wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:14 am [
are we trying to solve this? Can you hum a few bars? How about voice range, are we talking Ronnie James Dio or more Neil Sedaka?

All I can remember is just the three words, nothing which would provide musical context. This was decades ago, so it is mostly just a curiosity now.

Bon Jovi "Guilty of love and a bad name"
Bohemian Rhapsody "hit me with a window, doesn't really matter to me"

“Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night”


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"Gimme fuel gimme fire gimmedabajabazaba"

Recently Red Fang's Anodyne got parodied by my girlfriend as "hammer time"... and now I can't unhear it.


Oh and the doors whiskey song:
"OH moooooo, oh balaclava, we now musk say good buy, weeeeeeee ve lost are good old baaa baaa"


& I always heard "rolled up like a douche on a river in the sky"


I can't remember the name of the song, but there' a song on Megadeths 13 or maybe supercollider where it sounds like he says "your so-so security"

Big ol' Jeb with the light on... Don't carry me too far away.

Best laugh I've had all day jimbocaster!

not ones that i personally misheard but ones that i always sing this way because it's funnier: "there's a bathroom on the right", "'scuze me while i kiss this guy", "arms full of fishing rods with our tacos on our backs"