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I've just learned if it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe..

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StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 19:58

He'd have been married a long time ago and not buried a long time ago. I thought that CEJ had saved his life, not stolen all of the women.

Also that he came to town like a Mid-Winter storm, not like a movie star.

Has anyone else had any lyric related revelations lately?

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Eggshausted · 20/05/2022 00:12

REM The sidewinder sleeps tonight. ‘Calling Cheryl Baker, Calling Cheryl Baker….’

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 20/05/2022 00:13

mubarak86 · 19/05/2022 20:55

In a previous thread someone thought it was Rhythm is a dancer, it's a sauce companion 🤣

Just told DH this he's convinced the lyric is 'Rhythm is a dancer, it's a source of valium"

Soul companion apparently

worriedatthistime · 20/05/2022 00:14

Im usually always getting words wrong but I did know it was strong beliefs

scrivette · 20/05/2022 00:21

I also used to think that the Wombles were 'common' rather than they lived on Wimbledon Common.

Also just read that apparently it's not 'Freed from
Desire, my innocence is purified'.

Notimeforaname · 20/05/2022 00:21

I've only just learnt that lady gaga isn't singing "red wine" and the start of Just Dance.

What is she singing?

"RedOne" ...its the name of a songwriter on that song.

StooriMidori · 20/05/2022 00:35

The Beautiful South were not announcing 'it's life's big carpet sale', they were advising us to 'let love speak up itself'

whynotwhatknot · 20/05/2022 00:40

Bellagio40 · 19/05/2022 20:56

I thought he was singing “Me ears are alight”

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Is this maybe because there was an advert years ago with this song playing and the wrong lyrics coming up cassette tapes i think?

ChazzaGirl · 20/05/2022 00:42

StooriMidori · 20/05/2022 00:35

The Beautiful South were not announcing 'it's life's big carpet sale', they were advising us to 'let love speak up itself'

This really made me laugh! Shan’t be able to listen to that song now without singing your lyrics.

StooriMidori · 20/05/2022 00:43

@ChazzaGirl I always assumed it was some meaningful metaphor for life. DH has never let me live it down! 🤣

Tromboleese · 20/05/2022 01:17

Haven’t RTFT so don’t know if this has been mentioned:
Wiley’s Heatwave had me and DS1 in stitches when we first heard it. It’s such a bouncy tune and we heard:

”When I arlrigh’ I’m like balls in a heatwave” 🤣

instead of “when I arrive, I’m causin’ a heatwave” We thought he was describing feeling hot, sweaty and sticky 😂😂

Tromboleese · 20/05/2022 01:34

suckingonchillidogs · 19/05/2022 21:48

One of my favourites I read on here a few years ago was someone who thought that Nelly the Elephant was 'back to front' and therefore had to say goodbye to the circus.

@suckingonchillidogs 😳 well now I feel stupid! I have been singing Nelly the Elephant’s back to front when I was little and have taught it to my kids. 😂

Bellagio40 · 20/05/2022 01:48

whynotwhatknot · 20/05/2022 00:40

Is this maybe because there was an advert years ago with this song playing and the wrong lyrics coming up cassette tapes i think?

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Yes, it could be but @Comocomida posted the video and I don’t remember the other misheard lines

Mountainhike · 20/05/2022 01:48

thesausagebros · 19/05/2022 23:04

Not a recent revelation, but for a good 10 years as a child my dad (a huge Glasgow Celtic fan) had me believe that the lyrics to Seasons In The Sun when Westlife released it were 'we had joy, we had fun, we beat Rangers 7 - 1' and I only found out when I got old enough to be left home alone and it came on the radio without him there to sing loudly over the top of it

For many years I thought it was “we had joy, we had fun, we had streakers on the run” 😳

Ducksurprise · 20/05/2022 03:08

GraceandMolly · 19/05/2022 23:06

Black eyes peas - Hey ya!

“Shake it like a Hollywood picture, hey ya!”

“Shake it like a Polaroid picture, hey ya!”

My husband had a good belly laugh when he heard me and I’d been singing like that for good 10 years

I thought it was 'shake it like a paranoid preacher'

I don't believe that it doesn't say 'she's so popular!'

Waitwhat23 · 20/05/2022 03:22

RishiRich · 19/05/2022 22:12

Apparently the Kaiser Chiefs were singing about predicting a riot rather than having Tourette's. Weird.

I was firmly convinced that it was 'I have Tourettes, I have Tourettes' until an ex rolled about laughing when he heard me singing it so it's a relief I'm not the only one!

Not really a misheard lyric but there was a song a few years ago called 'Rude' but the singer didn't pronounce the d so it sounded like 'Cool'. How anyone knew what it was actually called is beyond me. I didn't know until I saw the radio display.

autienotnaughty · 20/05/2022 05:53

Notimeforaname · 20/05/2022 00:21

I've only just learnt that lady gaga isn't singing "red wine" and the start of Just Dance.

What is she singing?

"RedOne" ...its the name of a songwriter on that song.

Ohhh I thought red wine too

autienotnaughty · 20/05/2022 05:57

StanleyTheCrane · 19/05/2022 23:26

The mention of Grease just reminded me that I thought that ONJ was singing "He ran by me, got muscle damp" in Summer Nights and not "Got my suit damp"

I assumed that it was some form of cramp.

I thought it was muscle cramp!

jocktamsonsbairn · 20/05/2022 07:53

AMBE123 · 19/05/2022 20:21

And apparently Kenny Rogers wasn't actually left with four hundred children and a crop in the field....

I've always thought that too! 😂

Playplayaway · 20/05/2022 08:18

Bellagio40 · 19/05/2022 20:56

I thought he was singing “Me ears are alight”

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They sang it that way on the tape advert.

I always sing it like that, or 'ooooh oooh Vitalite' 😎

MichelleScarn · 20/05/2022 09:39

Ds has been singing this morning JT's Can't Stop the Feeling... 🎵when it's hot and I'm needing new clothes🎵
For 'nowhere to hide when I'm getting you close'
Although I've always sung, 'it's getting hot when I'm getting you close' so l do see where he's coming From!

TheSilveryTinsellyPussycat · 20/05/2022 11:18

Knittingmamma · 19/05/2022 22:06

Only this week my mind was blown to discover Joni Mitchell wasn't singing "It'd Be very nice if you you put up a parking lot" but "They burnt down paradise, put up a parking lot"

And it's the lord of the dark settee!!

Actually they paved Paradise.

On the blue jeans theme, do any older Mumsnetters remember Venus in Blue Jeans, by Mark Wynter?

My Mum heard it as Venus Inblerjeans, Inblerjeans being Venus' surname.

theshadeofgreen · 20/05/2022 11:41

@StanleyTheCrane did Jake Quickenden's Instagram help with this revelation or am I totally wrong?

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StanleyTheCrane · 20/05/2022 11:48

StanleyTheCrane did Jake Quickenden's Instagram help with this revelation or am I totally wrong?

I'm not familiar with Jake Quickenden. A friend and I were talking about '90s songs and sharing YT clips then I looked up the lyrics of CEJ and found that I'd been mistaken all this time.

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PaintingClocks · 20/05/2022 11:55

ElenaSt · 19/05/2022 20:32

Chop the goolie island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita

I always thought it was tropically island breeze

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StanleyTheCrane · 20/05/2022 12:06

I'm going to have to check his Instagram now though because I'm curious.

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