Did I hear that right???

[Grumpy John]

I know that there are several sites dealing with the subject of song lyrics that have been misinterpreted, but I thought it might be interesting to see if any forum members have got the lyrics wrong at times. I'll start the ball rolling with this classic.

Auqalung by Jethro Tull
Actual lyrics:
Sitting on a park bench,
Eyeing little girls with bad intent.

What I thought he was singing:
Sitting on a park bench,
Eyeing little girls with battered hens teeth.


I'm not going to bother with any Australian Crawl songs, I can't understand James Reyne when he's talking let alone singing .

[corbs]

Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name

Actual:
Shot to the heart
and you're to blame
darlin'
you give love a bad name

What I thought they sang:
Shout to the heart
and you're too vain
darlin'
you give love a bad name

Wife enjoyed pointing out my mistake on the weekend whilst she was watching a Bon Jovi marathon on the weekend... and I have tickets to the upcoming Sydney concert

[Chief Tiff]

Jimi hendrix, Purple haze.

Actual: 'scuse me while I kiss the sky...

Interpreted: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...

Let us not forget Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody where "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard,

and Tina Turner's "What's a glove got to do with it"

[Grumpy John]

Jimi hendrix, Purple haze.

Actual: 'scuse me while I kiss the sky...

Interpreted: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy...

Let us not forget Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody where "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard,

and Tina Turner's "What's a glove got to do with it"

During some of his live shows Jimi actually did sing 'scuse me while I kiss this guy..., also rumour has it he also sang 'scuse me while I unzip my fly. Not sure about that one though, could be one of those urbal legends.

[watson]

My fave was an oldie....."I'm being swallowed by a huge sparrow......a huge sparrow.....huge sparrow".

[springwater]

Moonshadow?

[watson]

Yep!!
Followed by an actual...performed in front of the PM (Bob Hawke) after a heavy night.

Australian Girls are all called Joyce...they give us sex for free.

No one noticed.

[markharrison]

My favourite was a wedding singer at an Italian wedding that I went to many many moons ago. He sang Blue Suede Shoes but instead of singing:

Well you can knock me down,
Step in my face

Well you can knock me down,
Sit on my face

Well surprisingly few people either heard or understood it. Most people were either too drunk or didn't understand English (there was over 200 people there). There was just this one table of a dozen of us in our mid-20's doubled over in red faced and table slapping laughter with everyone looking at us like we had dropped a really noisy smelly one

[Manuka Jock]

Jimi hendrix, Purple haze.

Let us not forget Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody where "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"

Yeah , and eveyone knows it was really "Beelzebub has a devil for a cyborg - whee! " eh

[Scribbly Gum]

My favourite was Eric Burden and the Animals Live:
The actual words (from Sky Pilot) were;
"....... but he'll stay behind and he'll meditate..............."
What they sang was:
"........but he stale behind and he'll meditate ..............."

Couldn't help thinking it was a bad toilet experience ........

[arose62]

Technical term is "mondegreen", from a student who thought that "laid him on the green" was "Lady Mondegreen".

My (animal mad) sister used to sing
Alex the seal....

for "Our lips are sealed..."

Cheers,
Andrew

[arose62]

My 7 y.o. asked what it meant if she "tained" me.
Further questioning uncovered that she was wondering about the Robbie Williams lyrics:

"Let me in, to tain you"

Cheers,
Andrew