Personally misheard lyrics

[BatUtilityBelt]

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".

[Partscaster]

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

[toomanycats]

"Hold me closer Tony Danza."

[Flatline]

"there's a bathroom on the right"

[aullucci]

"Hold me closer Tony Danza."

This one. I still say it every single time.

[Milkman]

"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...."

[Milkman]

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.

[Houblues]

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.

[Milkman]

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)

[BatUtilityBelt]

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

[Houblues]

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.

[ID10t]

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?

[mickey]

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

[jtcnj]

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.....

[Houblues]

[
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.

[mighty_duck]

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

[voodoorat]

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


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[LancerTheGreat]

"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"

[jimbocaster]

[Mossman]

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

[ronnx]

Best laugh I've had all day jimbocaster!

[voodoorat]

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"