Worst misheard lyric of all time

[pokerfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5E8Bc9q_ok

Well, its a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
neath the cover of october skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And Im trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your bush

[Texasgal]

1. Rocket maaaaaaaan

burning up the trees on every LAWN!

[blogslut]

2. Ever been here?

www.kissthisguy.com

[pokerfan]

3. Firefox says I have

"There's a bathroom on the right."

[Rob H.]

29. On the episode of PBS' "Soundstage" when John Fogerty was on

when he sang "Bad Moon Rising" he actually substituted that in the next-to-last chorus. Apparently a lot of people have misheard that lyric, because you could actually hear the audience laugh over the sound of the band.

[appal_jack]

5. wow

I'd never been to that site before, but until I was about 12 years old or so, I really did think that Jimi was singing 'scuse me while I kiss this guy,' which struck me as rather odd... (I'm hetero, and crushed-out on exclusively girls even pre-puberty... plus I was raised in a rather homophobic catholic family... I'm 100% queer positive now, but my own crushes are still ignited by women only.)

-app

[Swede]

4. A gay pair of guys put up a parking lot

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

A Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

[astral]

6. I always thought it was "Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman"

on Get Back -- and then it goes "but he was another man"

But they say he thought he was a "loner" ----------

I been hearing it wrong since I was 8 years old and I still think it's right.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. No, you're mixing up your verses.

First verse:

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California Grass.


Second verse:

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can.

I have no idea if Loretta Martin was any relation to producer George Martin.

Or if she WAS George Martin, for that matter.

[City of Mills]

12. Thanks for clearing that up

I always thought it was "Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman" until about 2 minutes ago :yoiks:

[suninvited]

7. wrapped up like a douche

I really never had any idea what most of that song was saying, but I would sing right along with my misheard lyrics...

[pokerfan]

9. little deuche coupe...

[cwydro]

23. Lol! I heard that too.

And still do...

[JonLP24]

8. "hanging in(or out) and jiving" Good Times

You wrote the lyrics to the Good Times theme. Have you seen the Chappelle’s Show skit “I Know Black People”?

Both: No!

Chappelle played a quiz-show host, testing contestants’ knowledge of black culture. The question that stumped them all involved a lyric from “Good Times,” “hangin’ in a chow line.”

Marilyn: Well there’s no such line!

Alan: It’s “hanging out and jiving.”

Marilyn: No, it’s “hanging in and jiving.” I have to look it up. Norman Lear asked us to write a theme for that show, as he did for…what else?
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/2662/backstage-with-alan-and-marilyn-bergman

Edited to add video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lge2R4SSxZk

It is.
Temporary layoffs
Good times!

Easy credit ripoffs
Good times!

Scratchin' and surviving
Good times!

(according to the writers)
Hanging in(out) and jiving
Good times!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

11. Hold me closer Tony Danzaaaaa!

Tiny Dancer, Elton John.

[OwnedByFerrets]

13. Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the light,
wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Most folks thought it was douche

[charlie and algernon]

16. holy shit! you mean it's NOT douche???????

:wow: :wow:

mark me down as one of those who thought it was "wrapped like a douche"



:hide: :blush:

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. lmao

:evilgrin:

[suninvited]

21. thats the one I was talking about

but damned if I could remember the name of the song.

[unpossibles]

14. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

When I was younger, I thought part of the song went:

"She gives me hot cold pizza
She meets me in a cocoa set"

Which made no sense to me at all.

[MrScorpio]

15. "'Scuse me while I kiss dis guy" nt

[Roon]

17. don't go out tonight..

yeah, the bathroom's on the right. Or something like that.

[Pool Hall Ace]

18. David Bowie - Young Americans

I heard the news today oh boy
I got a C and you got a B

**************

The line is actually I got a suite and you got defeat.

[MorningGlow]

19. Pompatus of love--which makes NO sense

...oh wait...
:yoiks:

[trackfan]

20. The Reverend Blue Jeans / (Forever in Blue Jeans) n/t

[Torgo Johnson]

24. Pepper - The Butthole Surfers

For years until I finally looked up the lyrics, I kept on wondering what exactly was so special about Diane that made all those men in Texas love her.

[Inchworm]

25. Soy un perdedor

And so many more. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and Im out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin with a loser and the cruise control
Babys in reno with the vitamin d
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin Im insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Dont believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin all your food stamps and burnin down the trailer park

Yo. cut it.

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin from a pigeon wing
You cant write if you cant relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin on a termite
Thats chokin on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheese whiz)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
Soooooooyy....

(Im a driver, Im a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(I cant believe you)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(schprechen sie deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(know what Im sayin? )

:hi:

[SCantiGOP]

26. two tickets to paradise

I've got flu, rickets and parasites - what the hell did that person think the song was about?

[blueamy66]

28. ROFL

:rofl:

[surrealAmerican]

30. You win.

Flu, rickets and parasites would NOT be something to sing about.

[hyphenate]

27. The worst one for me was

Only the Lonely

We walked the loneliest mile
We smiled without any style
We kiss altogether wrong
No intention

We lied about each others drinks
We lived without each other thinkin'
What anyone would do
Without me and you

It's like I told you
Only the lonely can play
So hold on here we go
Hold on to nothin' we know
I feel so lonely way up here

You mention the time we were together
So long ago, well I don't remember
All I know is that it makes me feel good now

It's like I told you
Only the lonely can play
Only the lonely
Only the lonely can play



Only the lonely
Only the lonely can play
It's like I told you
Only the lonely can play
Only the lonely
Only the lonely can play



Now take the line "Only the lonely can play" and change it to "Only the lonely get laid" and you will have the version I remember knowing a long time ago. :)