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Prof - Posted - 11/20/2009: 05:40:02
I was taking my son to school this morning while listening to my bluegrass mp3s (what else!?). Jimmy Martin's "Freeborn Man" is playing, when my 13 year old son says, "He doesn't know how to play the alto sax." I sat quietly for a minute trying to figure out what he said, then asked him to repeat it. He told me the same thing again. I said, "What does that have to do with anything?" He said, "After he says 'I've got this worn out guitar' he says 'I carry an alto sax."
I started laughing and told him its "I carry it in an old tote sack." We had a good laugh over that one! 
Got some examples of confused lyrics?
I've heard this story from, I think, an interview with Ozzy Osborne -- he thought Jimmy Hendricks in "Purple Haze" was saying "excuse me while I kiss this guy...."
Texasbanjo - Posted - 11/20/2009: 05:52:11
There's a verse in a gospel song that goes:
My life on earth, is but a span.....
and one of the kids heard it: my life on earth is "buttered spam".
Thought that was pretty cute.
KE - Posted - 11/20/2009: 05:59:05
LOL @ buttered spam.
My daughter used to sing the last line to Row, Row, Row Your Boat as "like a butterbean" instead of "life is but a dream."
Prof - Posted - 11/20/2009: 06:03:48
From my childhood in church... I was sure we were singing "Bringing in the cheese" instead of "bringing in the sheaves."
Edited by - Prof on 11/20/2009 06:09:26
mike gregory - Posted - 11/20/2009: 06:12:05
Classic joke about the kid who handed his Sunday School teacher a crayon sketch of a panda, with a markedy obvious visual problem: Convergent strabismus.
The assignment was to illustrate their favorite hymn, and the kid had drawn
"Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear"!
Maybe he misunderstood the cover of the paperback book he had found under his big brother's pillow.
Louisiana Rose - Posted - 11/20/2009: 06:15:39
When I used to say my prayers as a small child, on the Hail Mary, I used to say Holy Mary, mother of God, pay for our dinners instead of pray for us sinners
flake - Posted - 11/20/2009: 07:17:29
Sort of like in "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"? You know....the girl with colitis goes by?
mike
Prof - Posted - 11/20/2009: 07:17:29
My Dad used to always tell that joke, Mike!
fivestringmac - Posted - 11/20/2009: 10:06:29
The Girl With Emphysema.
There's A Bathroom On The Right.
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.
Ronnie - Posted - 11/20/2009: 10:32:48
My best suggestion would be go to www.youtube.com and search "misheard lyrics."
BConk - Posted - 11/20/2009: 13:31:50
or that 80s song by The Human League "Don't Chew On Me, Baby"
bubbalouie - Posted - 11/20/2009: 17:37:07
Sung to the tune of Smoke on the water.....
Sloooooow walkin' Waaaaaalter.
The fire engine guy.
brokenstrings - Posted - 11/20/2009: 22:36:17
The Carter Family's garbled lyrics to "Wildwood Flower":
And the pale and the leader and eyes looked like (so) blue
for
And the pale aronatus with eyes of light blue
fynger - Posted - 11/21/2009: 05:17:16
Fishfinger love by fleetwood Mac.......( big love )
dingo - Posted - 11/21/2009: 06:43:32
ACDC, Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap............
I hear it as Dirty deeds done with __________, (what ryhmes with Cheap)
fynger - Posted - 11/27/2009: 11:05:10
Desmond Decker - Me Ears are Alight
Trewq36 - Posted - 11/27/2009: 11:12:59
For a friend of mine, "Who needs yea" became "Moon creature"
I always thought it funny (as in funny = strange).
dennis andrews - Posted - 11/27/2009: 11:47:48
When I was a kid I asked my parents, "Why do they call it the Cheapskate and Ohio"
as we were going under an overpass.
pstroud1 - Posted - 11/27/2009: 13:12:10
For thirty some years I had sun Mocking Bird Hill I sang a mule that I bought for a 2 dollar bill. Ten dollar bill.
Compass56 - Posted - 11/27/2009: 13:40:50
When my cousin and I were young, he sang "Bennie and the Jets out loud once, and instead of saying "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit," he sang, "She's gotta let me groove, a mo ha vu."
gshall - Posted - 11/27/2009: 13:57:55
As a kid (before I could read and lyrics were exciting), I confused two things in one song. I knew Jesus was somehow refered to as the "rose of sharon," and we always had fried chicken and thicknin' gravy for Sunday lunch. No wonder I was intrigued by the song "up from the gravy, a rose."
My ex-father-in-law hated the song "Angel of the Morning," because he couldn't understand why she said "just brush my teeth before you leave me."
Then there was the Sneeze Song: I gachooo babe!
mike gregory - Posted - 11/27/2009: 17:19:58
Me, too, friends & neighbors!!
Too young to READ, but I could see the PICTURES in Mom's big prayer book.
Mary crushing the head of the Serpent.
So, when Mom put that big old 78rpm of the Mormon Tabernacle Chior on that huge floor-standing radio/phonograph combo, and they were singing "Batle Hymn of the Republic", it made perfect sense.
1.The best time to sneak up and stomp a snake, is when it's sleeping.
2. And, any hiker in Wisconsin can tell you that snakes like to shelter in the gaps between the rocks.
I wasn't sure what a vintage was, but it had something to do with making wine, which
3. Jesus did at a wedding feast.
THEREFORE: In a song about Jesus, I was sure that I heard them singing
"He is trampling through the vintage where the caves of rattlers snored."
Sterling grass - Posted - 11/27/2009: 20:56:15
My four year old twin grandsons were fascinated with the DVD Three Pickers and we watched it many times. Adam loved the one about killing the rabbit and cooking it up and eating it. Alex went around singing (at the top of his lungs) "Annie's Chains". He was insistent and knew just how to sing it. We had no clue. A year later, we were watching 3 Pickers again and he identified Ricky Scaggs' "in exchange"--What Would You Give "Annie's Chains" For Your Soul?
Jeanie
gshall - Posted - 11/28/2009: 06:51:55
quote:
Originally posted by mike gregory
"He is trampling through the vintage where the caves of rattlers snored."
I guess that explains where your knack for twisted limericks comes from.
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 11/28/2009: 12:54:07
The term for misheard limericks is "mondegreen" from the old ballad "the Bonnie Early of Moray" (or ...Murray)
the refrain" For they've killed the Earl Of Moray and laid him on the green"
was mis-rendered as "For they've killed The Earl Of Moray and Lady Mondegreen"
mike gregory - Posted - 11/28/2009: 13:21:16
But, is that not a traditional Bluegrass song?
And is it not a Rule of the genre that
"If the woman is still alive at the end of the song, it's not Bluegrass!"???
Perhaps, by now, the Lady Mondegreen has passed away from natural causes, so she need not sacrifice herself, simply to prevent the Bluegrass lovers from losing an otherwise nice little song.
spaz - Posted - 12/29/2009: 01:35:37
in the sound of music they sing 'tea, a drink with jam and bread'.. for pretty much my whole life i thought they said "tea, a drink with german bread' (which would be kind of ironic given the movie's subject matter) .. funny thing is.. I now remember that I learned the correct lyrics at one point, then forgot them again, and just the other night while watching it again sang '.. a drink with german break..' then thought to myself, 'hmm.. thats wrong, isnt it.. ? '
mike gregory - Posted - 12/29/2009: 12:43:16
And the tune was running through my head, as I was hauling out the wash, from the machine to the basket.
Does the lovestruck lad sing
"I love Jennifer Echoes"
or "I love Jenny Freckles"
or some third possibility, which will astound me, when you post it here?
mike gregory - Posted - 12/29/2009: 13:20:39
Astounding!
Thanks.
Even more surprising:
Five hormone-crazed young lads, ALL in love with Jennifer, and no fistfights?
Such is the healing power of Music.
mike gregory - Posted - 12/29/2009: 15:46:09
Wow! Trying to sing phonetically, syllable for syllable, in a language one does not understand.
Got to be a heck of a task.
ABBA did it, but it's not something I'd like to try.
Maybe 40 years back, when the Japanese language song "Sukiaki" was on the top 40, a friend of mine had a 3-yr old daughter who would do a darn nice job of signing along with the radio. But, at that age, every sound they hear is just another sound.
And, since none of us spoke Jap[anese, we didn't know if the kid was getting the pronunciation right, or not.
BadTaco - Posted - 12/29/2009: 17:41:22
As an undergrad, I worked at the reference desk of the university library. Just for something to do, I surfed onto kissthisguy.com
I started laughing so hard I had to leave the desk. I was certain that my co-worker (a student from mainland China) wouldn't understand the joke, but she was pretty Americanized, so I let her in on it:
(From "The Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel): "...just a come-on from the horse on seventh avenue..."
For the next two years, all I had to do was make horse noises in her presence and neither of us could get anything done for laughing.
mike gregory - Posted - 12/29/2009: 19:18:43
"Ooooh, Wilbur!"
thkidd - Posted - 01/04/2010: 11:40:37
When I was a kid, I misunderstood the lyrics to Loretta Lynn's song, "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man". I thought she said, "it'll be on my day Friday", because I had never heard the phrase, "it'll be over my dead body". I thought maybe she was gonna kick her butt on payday or something. My family all got a big kick out of hearing me sing it incorrectly.
I guess Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded by the Light" has one of the most often misunderstood lyrics; it should be "wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night", referring to a deuce coupe. The other version really made no sense, but that's sure how it sounded.
Ronnie - Posted - 01/05/2010: 08:00:04
A fellow I used to perform with sang "sinuous woman" instead of "sensuous woman."
Another misunderstood the lyrics of Johnny Cash's "Stripes" He would sing that the judge's scaffold fell instead of his gavel.
John Allison - Posted - 01/05/2010: 08:05:27
I have a CD where there is a Carter family recording of the Wabash Cannon Ball in which the lyrics refer to the "..... rumor, and the roar ....." as opposed to the ".....rumble and the roar.....".
Edited by - John Allison on 01/05/2010 08:07:29
Mopick - Posted - 01/05/2010: 11:24:21
Lucy in disguise with diamonds.
Randy
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