Clowns In My Coffee, Hold Me Closer Tony Danza, And Other Misheard Lyrics

[arwalden]

I still laugh whenever I hear the song "Finally" by Cee Cee Penniston.

WHAT I HEAR:

Finally! It's happened to me.
Right in front of my face.
MONKEY LIPS can't describe it.

ACTUAL LYRICS:

Finally! It's happened to me.
Right in front of my face.
MY TWO LIPS can't describe it.

[Dirty Hippie]

1. Some song

Line:
"My will is dead"

I turned to my son asking "Did he just say 'my willie's dead?'"

[mikeytherat]

2. You must go here immediately!

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

mikey_the_rat

[alpizzy]

3. Can't remember song title...

Lyric:

Just brush my cheek before you leave me

An ex thought it was:

Just brush my teeth before you leave me

Also....

Dire Straits Lyric:

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

My hubby STILL argues that it is:

Money for nothin' and CHECKS for free!!!

Free checking!!! Cracks me up!!!

[zbird]

4. "There's a bathroom on the right", of course!

From "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater Revival.

"Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise."

[TlalocW]

5. I once re-wrote

The entire "Takin' Care of Business" song in high school to make it match the misheard lyric, "Bakin' Carrot Biscuits." I was going to sell it to Parkay and make a million dollars. :) Then I lost my version. Oh, well... The ants are my friends; they're blowin' in the wind.

Bakin' Carrot Biscuits - Everyday!
Bakin' Carrot Biscuits - With Parkay!

TlalocW

[MaineDem]

6. Rock the Cat's Bra

My friend's daughter - a toddler at the time - would go around singing this at the top of her lungs whenever she heard "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash.

[soothsayer]

7. "Sweep the ocean"---that's how my friend heard....

Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep the ohhhhhhhhhhh-shun

[CO Liberal]

8. "Don't You Love Her Ass? She's Walking Out The Door"

The Doors' "Love Her Madly".

[Best_man23]

9. "We're giving love to the family dog"

Pointer Sister's "We Are Family"

Actual lyric:

"Just let me state for the record/We're giving love in a family dose"

[peekaloo]

10. Bob-bob-bob-bob-bobber Ann

thought it was about a gal with a less than stellar reputation. :eyes:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Big Old Jet had a Light on....

Instead of big old jet airliner. I still sing along that way...old habits are hard to break.

[underpants]

12. Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double, feeds my chickens when I sleep

Should be "Pays my tickets when I speed" -GD "Sugar Magnolia"

[zizzer]

31. Tastes like chicken when I sneeze

Is the way I heard it.

Zizzer

[underpants]

32. It wasn't even 5 years ago I was told what it really said

:eyes:

[carolinayellowdog]

13. What's the one about douche? and what's it really saying?

Sorry, don't know the title or artist, but a big rock hit of the 80s sounded like the punch line was about douche, and everyone I asked what it was really saying didn't know. Hear it now and again on an oldie station and it always sounds like douche. Ring any bells?

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. OH the runner in the night, wrapped up like a douche....

You mean that one??

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Blinded By The Light

Manfred Mann's version of a Springsteen tune.

It was "deuce" not douche, but it sure sounded like the latter.
The Professor

[kmla]

18. You mean "Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night..."?

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - the correct lyrics ( a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song) are approximately,

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night" or something like that. It is a little clearer on Bruce's version, BTW.

[Gato Moteado]

23. actually i think it's revved up like a duece

nt

[kmla]

24. I do believe you are right.

That's why I added the qualifier, "approximately" - I knew I was somewhere close...

[CBHagman]

36. But for all of us who own "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey"

...it will always be "cut loose like a deuce."


Manfred Mann also changed the original lyrics of Springsteen's "For You" when that tune was covered.

[kmla]

38. Hell, I think you may be right...

All I know is that I wasn't...

I'll agree with anyone at this point!

:freak:

[kmla]

15. Groovin'... On a Sunday Afternoon

The Young Rascals - Groovin'

For a while, thought it was about that "free lovin' generation"

"You and me, and Leslie..."

as opposed to the correct version,

"You and me, endlessly.."

:hippie:

[anti_shrub]

42. I just heard that song the other day

...and I thought the lyric was "leslie"


:dunce:

[arwalden]

17. "Sunday Monkey Won't Play Piano Song" by the Beatles

The actual lyrics are French I think... but I don't know the title.

-- Allen

[kmla]

19. Michelle, my bell....

And yes, the lyrics are in French.

[Bossy Monkey]

47. ma belle, but I like your way better (n/t)

[EOTE]

21. Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

From the album Rubber Soul.

[EOTE]

20. I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen....

From: I'd really love to see you tonight.

Real lyrics: I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in.

[LuLu550]

28. French

Michelle...ma belle (my pretty)
Sont les mot qui vont tres bien ensamble (my spelling's off) but it means
"Are the words that go together well."
LuLu

[indigo32]

22. Way down South

or was the "Lay down Sally" LOL

[JHB]

25. I once wondered what the fuss was about Sheena Easton...

...singing about the "Sugar Waltz".

[welshTerrier2]

26. purple haze

jimi hendrix: purple haze ...

wrong: excuse me, while i kiss this guy ...
right: excuse me, while i kiss the sky ...

the tv show "Wings" had an episode where Antonio (the cab driver) explained to Helen that he learned to speak English in his native country by learning all the words to Michael Row Your Boat Ashore ...

he proceeded to sing the song: my goat knows the baseball scores, hallelujah ...

[CO Liberal]

27. "The Girl With Colitis Goes By"

Actually "the girl with kalidescope eyes" from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".

[LuLu550]

29. Bob Marley's famous...

"Pajamas...we hope you like pajamas, too."
LuLu

[Ellen Forradalom]

30. Found Myself a Lawyer

Originally the 1983 club hit "Vamos a la Playa."

[Tom Kitten]

33. Men At Work

"I come from a land of hunger" ...I thought that was what "Down Under" was all about.

[CO Liberal]

34. "Let's Move Before They Raise The F**king Rent"

At least that's what the line in "All Right Now" sounds like to me...

[mitchum]

35. I always thought it was "Tiny Danzig"...

since Glen is a freaking midget

Glen "In hell I will be tall" Danzig

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

37. Bob Seeger's "Night Moves"

The chorus sounds like their singing "Diet Foods."

It's funnier if you're stoned at the time. Not that I was, mind you...

[Lady President]

39. Reverend in blue jeans

I thought Neil Diamond was singing about a pastor who wore casual clothes:

Reverend in blue jeans...

not

FOREVER in blue jeans...

[arwalden]

54. LOL! I thought it was "Reverend Blue Jeans", perhaps the brother of..

Mr. Green Jeans.

[LuLu550]

40. My Mom

thought the Yardbirds' song "For Your Love" was
Wah-la-wah
LuLu

[CO Liberal]

41. Actually, "Wah-la-Wah" Was Sung by Bob Dylan

:-)

[dolo amber]

43. Bald-headed woman...

or the more popular Bee Gees song "More than a Woman"... (hey, I was like 7 or 8, ffs) :P

[Bossy Monkey]

48. Also works for Eric Clapton's Forever Man (n/t)

[opiate69]

44. Dobie Gray

"Give me the beat, boys and free my soul..." I always heard it as "give me the beach boys..."

[Kolesar]

45. "I shot Sherri"

But I didn't shoot the deputy, whoa whoa.

I like Bob Marley's version better when I finally heard it.

[Gato Moteado]

46. goddam the butcher man.......

....was the way the little kid who lived two doors down from me used to sing the pusher man, way back in the early seventies. i always wondered, "why did the song want to curse the butcher?"

[NashVegas]

49. Pixies

Heard:

"hair club for men"

actual lyric:

"here comes your man"


Heard:

"I am moonshun, I could lose ya"

Actual:

"I am un chien andalusia"

[FlashHarry]

50. Well, Black Francis does murder the pronunciation

I believe it's in reference to Buñuel's 'Un Chein Andalou.' ("Slicin' up eyeballs, oh ho ho ho!") But Black pronounces the word un as 'oon,' rather than 'uhn.' In any case, it's a great song about a fairly obscure topic.

(edit: spelling)

[jpak]

51. I'm your PENIS, I'm your Fire

at your desire....

Shocking Blue indeed

:):):)

[kmla]

52. That song would make...

... a good sex-ed theme song, no?

:evilgrin:

[Kolesar]

53. or a commercial for Trojans

yow!