I wish i was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair?
has anyone else ever sung the wrong lyrics until corrected to any song? please tell me the wrong lyrics you sung it will make me feel better! (p.s. i know its punk rocker now.......!)
2006-09-27 01:23:45 · 22 answers · asked by spens dad! 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
another one of mine if a little risque! whitney houston - 'saving all my love for you'. listen when she really gives it some it sounds like 'im shaving off my muff for you! Mmmmmm nice!
2006-09-27 01:32:57 · update #1
Oh I've got loads - I'm always doing this by mistake. Some of my classics are:
Lou Bega - Mambo No 5
ACTUAL: A little bit of Rita's all I need
I THOUGHT IT WAS: A little bit of weed is all I need
Jamiroquai - Canned Heat
ACTUAL: I've got canned heat in my heels tonight
I THOUGHT IT WAS: I've got candy in my ears tonight
Elton John - Can you Feel the Love Tonight
ACTUAL: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
I THOUGHT IT WAS: It's enough to make kings and megabombs
Madonna - La Isla Bonita
ACTUAL: This is where I long to be, La Isla Bonita
I THOUGHT IT WAS: This is where I long to be, lucky star for me now
Bronski Beat - Beat Boy
ACTUAL: Beat boy, beat Boy, get that perfect beat boy
I THOUGHT IT WAS: Meatball, meatball, hit that perfect meatball
I could go on forever because I get so many of the words wrong and I'm always making people laugh because I think I'm cool singing along to the songs until I realise I've misheard them!
2006-09-27 04:26:42 · answer #1 · answered by Hotpink555 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The phenomenon you're talking about is called a mondegreen - it originates from the same kind of thing happening with a song called "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray" from the 17th century. The lyrics people sang commonly were:
"Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray, [sic]
And Lady Mondegreen."
The actual last line was "And laid him on the green". Hence the word "mondegreen", which completely alters the meaning of the song. But I guess there's a difference between making up your own lyrics to songs because they're funny and then actually mis-singing a song because you've not heard the real words properly!
Hope that little useless nugget helps!
2006-09-27 01:43:56 · answer #2 · answered by Wes W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jethro Tull's Aqualung - the first verse actually goes:
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot is running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey Aqualung.
I always thought the first two lines went:
Sitting on a park bench
Five little girls with bad intent
Which, of course, changes the meaning entirely.
Also, Nickleback's How You Remind Me, the chorus actually goes:
Are we having fun yet, yet, yet
No no.
I thought it was Are we having fun? Yes, yes, no no
Which made little sense! :D
2006-09-27 01:29:05 · answer #3 · answered by mattygroves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend who constantly hears the wrong words in songs, which provides lots of amusement for the rest of us, but her best ever was from Adam Ant's 'Goody Two Shoes', where she always sang the line 'subtle innuendo follows' as 'settle in you wet old fellows'.
2006-09-27 04:07:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheap Wine by Cold Chisel
Real lyrics - I got my cheap wine and a three day growth
What my friends and I THOUGHT Jimmy sang - I got my cheap wine and a three-legged goat
Still makes me laugh to this day, and even though I know the real words, I much prefer to sing the misheard ones.
;-)
2006-09-27 01:50:27 · answer #5 · answered by muras 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beatles: Penny Lane
The real lyrics were:
In his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
But I misheard them as:
And he's barking at a portrait of the Queen
2006-09-27 01:28:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thinking of you - Sister Sledge
the lyrics are
Everybody, let met tell you 'bout my love
Brought to you by an angel from above
Fully equipped with a lifetime guarantee
Won't you try it, I am sure that you'll see
It sounds like...Forty quid with a lifetime guarantee
2006-09-27 01:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by MsCymru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate has to be the 1980 hit So Lonely by The Police which confused Sue Lawley herself who wondered why the song had been written about her.
2006-09-27 01:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by GoogleRules 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AC/DC - dirty Deeds dirty Deeds, Dunder chief definitely words, dirty Deeds, executed airborne dirt and dirt low-priced. I truly do not comprehend what "Dunder chief" is/changed into, yet i changed into about 8 even as the song got here out. I sang it that way for quite a even as till my sister recreation me the lyrics (that changed into pre-information superhighway lyric searches).
2016-12-02 04:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Micheal Jackson has a few it sounds like he is saying diller instead of thriller look up his lyrics u will be surprised what he really is saying in most of his songs.
2006-09-27 01:32:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋