Misheard Lyrics

[Mervyn and Trish]

This sort of emerged as an aside on another thread, but I wondered if anyone had any examples of misheard lyrics. A warning that this can ruin your enjoyment of a song for ever.

For example some friends' first dance song at their wedding was Celine Dion, with "My heart will go on", the theme from Titanic.

Now they can't listen to it without hearing the line "Now that the hotdogs have come"

[qbman1]

Love these!

My favourite is from an obscure seventies hit by Gene Cotton - "Me and the Elephant"

"I remember one day we had nothin to do
so we went down to the city zoo
just to kill an hour or two
out in the good sunshine.

But we had so much fun we were glad that we came
we fed all the animals and gave each a name
we didn't even mind when it started to rain
we had a real good time."

The third line clearly sounds like "just to kill an owl or two" !!

[Manoverboard]

Misunderstood / misinterpreted lyrics is / are also presumably allowed

My very first such memory was way back in the mists of time whilst listening to Chuck Berry singing ' Johnny B Goode ', he sung about a ' poor boy ' and I naively assumed that he was referring to a coloured lad who had fallen on hard times in the slums of New Orleans ... many years later on a visit to that same City I discovered that a ' poor boy ' was in fact a sandwich.

[Silver_Shiney]

I'd always thought Ike and Tina Turner's "gin house" (Nutbush City Limits) was a pub, but it turns out it's the building where raw cotton is sorted and baled, the machine used being called a "gin".

[qbman1]

And there's one for DQ:

"See that girl, watch her scream kicking the dancing queen"

[Happydays]

I think it's Kenny Rogers "Lucile"
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucile with 400 children and a crop in the field
Should be 4 hunger children and a crop in the field!

[qbman1]

...and don't forget Bohemian Rhapsody - "spare him his life for his pork sausages" !

[Mervyn and Trish]

Meatloaf's "Bat out of hell" includes what sounds like "I'm a Cilla Black fan on a bike".

The line is actually supposed to be:

"I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram,
on a silver black phantom bike"

[Silver_Shiney]

Not forgetting the Bee Gees' classic "and she came to me in a submarine" from "How deep is your love"

[towny44]

On my crackly Radio Luxembourg wireless, I thought Elvis's "Treat me nice" was Dreamy Nights.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Trish loved Johnny Tillotson's "Oh a tree in motion"

(for the younger audience... poetry etc.)

[qbman1]

My gran liked that song!!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Yeh, yeh, yeh

[qbman1]

That was "She Loves You"

[Mervyn and Trish]

I'll put 'em up, you knock 'em down

[Kendhni]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc

[Frank Manning]

I dont know about mis heard lyrics. I sailed wth a 3rd Mate who would corrupt the lyrics of songs and some of them dont bear repeating.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Other dancers may pee on the floor (Dean Martin - Sway)

[Gill W]

...and don't forget Bohemian Rhapsody - "spare him his life for his pork sausages" !

Not to mention

'Is this the real life, is this just Battersea'

[qbman1]

How about ABBA's Super Trouper?

"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow"

Definitely sounds like "called you last night from Tesco" !!