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TheDad mentioned this on the One Hit Wonders thread and I thought it would make a good thread of its own. I’m constantly working to decipher certain phrases and usually don’t like what the “actual” is versus what I originally thought.</p>
<p>Of course, now with Google, the angst of not knowing is short-lived, but maybe that’s not a totally good thing 
?</p>
<p>Back in college, someone we knew thought the 4 Tops song Bernadette was “Burn the Dead”…still makes me laugh</p>
<p>There’s the apocryphal tale of the chap, probably Southern, who thought Madonna wrote “Lack of Urgin’.”</p>
<p>What’s the follow-up to Dominus vobis cum? Passe tes cornes (Pax te cum).</p>
<p><em>lol</em> I’ve mistaken lyrics so many times it’s ridiculous…I LOVE Google!</p>
<p>My back-then naive little mind thought the Raspberries were singing, “Please don’t go away…” when it was, of course, actually “Please go all the way…” 
~berurah</p>
<p>My favorite was being in Morocco and hearing the DJ on a radio station introduce the new hit “Last Chance” by David Bowie.</p>
<p>“Let’s dance, last chance”… Now, that’s a good title for a song.</p>
<p>There’s so many songs I can’t understand, it’s hard to know where to start. But the most persistant – I still hear it, is:</p>
<p>Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a ■■■■■■, you know the ruler of the night.</p>
<p>for </p>
<p>Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.</p>
<p>bink, it was always “■■■■■■, another runner…” to me. :D</p>
<p>I don’t remember where I saw this, probably on VH1, but IIRC, it was actually “ripped up like a deuce” when the original artist wrote and performed it, but the hit version, by Manfred Mann, they sing “Wrapped up like a ■■■■■■” or at least close enough to it that even the artist thought they did.</p>
<p>OH! I know, it was Bruce Springstein on VH1 Storytellers.</p>
<p>Anywho- my worst, until I was about 15, I swore the line was: “Now this is Thriller- thriller on ice”</p>
<p>(I still don’t know what it actually is, but I know I’m wrong now at least- I think it might be “thrill of your life”)</p>
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<p>And one of my favorites–Creedence Clearwater singing</p>
<p>“There’s a bathroom on the right.”</p>
<p>It’s not “split up on the docks that night”?! Wow, I always thought it was.</p>
<p>Garland, while D was in a shop looking for some horn music, I was riffling through the various pop-rock music books, found a couple of Dylans, thumbed through them, and that’s what I found. You coulda knocked me over with your pinkie.</p>
<p>I mean, “the docks” lines up perfectly with him in the next verse “taking a job on a fishing boat just outside Delacroix,” right?</p>
<p>flash cartoon with the lyric to Yellow Ledbetter which has never been published
<a href=“http://home.comcast.net/~angelalb/ledbetter.swf[/url]”>http://home.comcast.net/~angelalb/ledbetter.swf</a>
don’t know how accurate it is - but since eddie changes the words every time he sings it almost- it probably doesn’t matter ;)</p>
<p>Garland, I’m still singing, “There’s a bathroom on the right!”</p>
<p>Another one I got wrong - Frankie Valley’s “My eyes adored you…” I thought was “My Sweet Georgia.”</p>
<p>Thedad, it’s too perfect. The book must have it wrong. :)</p>
<p>And hey, it’s one of my top all time fav Dylan songs, so I should know, right?</p>
<p>Garland, one of my faves too:</p>
<p>Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet from the 13th century
And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal
Pourin’ off of every page like like it was written from my soul
From me to you,
Tangled up in blue.</p>
<p>Manages to recaptures the most tempestuous not-quite-love-affair that I ever had.</p>