<p>Mike McCready thought that Kiss’ song went “i want to rock and roll all nite/and part of every day”</p>
<p>david bowie’s ‘sufragette city,’ “don’t lean on me man cause you can’t afford the ticket” as “don’t rain on me man cause i ain’t got tiny chicken”</p>
<p>Hendrix and ''Scuse me, while I kiss this guy."</p>
<p>Creedence Clearwater Revival and something about a bathroom on the right.</p>
<p>Madonna and "Lack of Urgin’ "</p>
<p>And I just about fell over when I finally read the lyrics to Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue”: the split up on “the docks that night” (my version), not on “a dark sad night.”</p>
<p>Rocka my soul in the 'Boots Above Abraham…(-Godsboots, I still see the picture of a pair of old brown boots rocking back and forth cradling my soul )</p>
<p>“Michelle, my Belle,
Someday monkey won’t play piano songs,
play piano songs”</p>
<p>instead of the French lyrics…</p>
<p>There is a great Powerpuff Girls episode, a homage to the Beatles, called “Meet the Beat-alls.” </p>
<p>Four top villains mirror the individual band members, and the storyline follows the groups’ biography. Much of the dialogue and narration is comprised of album titles, song titles and lyrics. The misquoted Beatles lyrics end up as part of the plot.</p>
<p>Best character is monkey Moko Yono, a “performance criminal”, and girlfriend of villain Mojo Jojo.</p>
<p>FINALLY, I remembered the term and looked it up</p>
<p>The term mondegreen for misheard lyrics comes from this. It originated from Sylvia Wright’s mishearing of the “Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green” from the Scottish folk song, The Bonny Earl Of Morray as “Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen”.</p>
<p>'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (Meaning/Origin)
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard (Meaning/Origin)
Killed in a bar when he was only three (Meaning/Origin)
Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names (Meaning/Origin)
The ants are my friends, they’re blowing in the wind (Meaning/Origin)
The girl with colitis goes by (Meaning/Origin)
There’s a bathroom on the right (Meaning/Origin)</p>
<p>When my son was little he thought the phrase from Love Shack was, “bring your juice box money”. He didn’t know what the heck a jute box was, but juice boxes, that made sense!</p>
<p>Was I the only one who heard Manfred Mann’s Earth Band singing “wrapped up like a ■■■■■■ …” instead of “revved up like a deuce …”? My dh and dd complain that I don’t hear well … apparently that’s been happening for years! ;)</p>
<p>When dd was little, she used to sing, "Rise and shine and kick out the glory, glory! She and her best friend used to sing it at the top of their lungs. It was quite funny.</p>
<p>Love Shack had one of the most undecipherable lyrics around. Mainly because of poor diction and the fact that it made no sense. “Tiiiiin roof. Rusted.” I’m not sure anybody actuall “misheard” that line – everyone I know just said “what the Hell is she saying?”</p>
<p>It made so much sense: "we drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out West, split up on the docks that night both agreeing it was best, she turned around to look at me as I was walking away, I heard her say over my shoulder we’ll meet again some day on the Avenue, tangled up in blue.</p>
<p>I had a job in the Great North woods, working as a cook for a spell…"</p>
<p>The whole narrative just flows with “on the docks that night.”
Great economy in storytelling fwiw.</p>
<p>“She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me,
Written by an Italian poet in the 13th century
And every one of them words of them word rang true,
And glowed like burning coal
Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul
From me to you, tangled up in blue.”</p>
<p>And that’s a shot right into my wheelhouse, had an experience like that once, or close enough. She even had red hair.</p>
<p>Thedad: I adore that song, though I don’t have a redhead to connect it to. And “on the docks that night” definitely fits the story. I’m sure Dylan would agree if he thought about it. :)</p>
<p>An all time classic song of misunderstood lyrics has to be Louie, Louie.</p>
<p>(BTW, as to the original post, in several live recordings Hendrix does say " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy"- Jimi was probably confused by his own lyrics-at most concerts it was surprising he could find the stage let alone play)</p>
<p>I seem to remember him talking about it,and the Yellow " letter" actually stands for a letter recieved saying their son had been killed during the civil war, and the ghost of their son watching the grief of their parents- but who knows?</p>
<p>For years I could never figure out that line in the All in the Family theme song where Edith and Archie Bunker are singing something that sounded like " Gee, our whole decelrangrade." I must not have been the only one confused because one year they finally slowed the song down to make the lyrics clear, “Gee, our old LaSalle ran great!”</p>
<p>I can never hear the lyrics in songs properly anyway, as I’m much more of a visual learner.</p>
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