For twenty years or so, I thought Stevie Nicks was saying "Just like the world we know" instead of "just like a white winged dove"....
If I can admit THAT, whatddyou got?
2007-11-23 21:26:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
LMAO!!!!!!!!! I use to sing, out loud mind you, the song, "Betty Davis Eyes." But, I thought it said, "Better days aside." (clap.....clap) Oh, just shoot me, now for even thinking about how many songs I have butchered in public!!!
AND, that's just the first one that came to my mind!! lol
Love this question!! LMAO..........
2007-11-24 07:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word for this is called a 'Mondegreen'
A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.
In Manfred Mann's cover of Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light, the line "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" is often cited as a prominent example of a mondegreen in popular music. The line is often misinterpreted in Mann's version (the pronunciation is very exaggerated) as "wrapped up like a douche" (Springsteen's original lyric was "cut loose like a deuce"). Deuce, in the song, refers to a 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe, and not a hygienic procedure.
My personal favorite is Jimi Hendrix's "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy"
2007-11-24 05:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by Doubledown 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought the chorus in the song that has the lyrics...(this is recent...)
"Youth of the Nation..." was...
"Euthanasia..."
Go figure...
The one before that was...John Cougar Mellencamp's lyrics in the song "Jack & Diane..." was...
"Sucka' Awe Shilli Dah...at side a' Taste a' Free..."
For a decade...I had no idea what Mr. Mellencamp was sayin'...
And I still don't know...
Lol...
2007-11-24 06:05:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being the Christmas season, I will tell you of my long-time misconception!!
For the longest time, I thought that Mary was young and fat... why? Because of the lyrics to "Silent Night." In my "ear" I could only hear the phrase, "Round young virgin"... not " 'Round YON virgin." So I always thought she was ROUND (fat) and YOUNG (yon!). Only when I learned to READ and actually SAW the lyrics was I corrected.
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
2007-11-24 05:39:08 · answer #4 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not mine but my favorite is the the middle of an hymn where
"Gladly my cross I'd bear" turns into "Gladly my cross-eyed bear." I was going to do an emoticon for that but unfortunately it looks like a different one.
2007-11-24 05:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
ha... theres a Song by Caliban
and in one of the verses it sounds like he said Chicken skin..but hes saying Shaking skin hahha
my freinds used to always laugh when we heard that song haa...
2007-11-24 05:29:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Had a friend who thought the Stones "Angie" was singing "I ain't dead"..still laugh every time I hear that song and think of Dave.
2007-11-24 05:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by Nurse Susie ♥ hugs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not a lyric, but part of The Lord's Prayer. I thought we were supposed to say, "Lead us not into Penn Station..."
2007-11-24 05:28:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
For a while I thought snow patrol was singing...
"and just fork at the world"
but he actually says... "And just forget the world"
2007-11-24 05:34:06 · answer #9 · answered by Layla 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Renegades of punk - sounded like
Redneck cajun funk
2007-11-24 05:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by nytebreid 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋