getting song lyrics wrong

[fatmomma99]

Had SO many things I was going to do today, but it rained, so I didn't do them. Had an incredible MN day (on here for hours!). I've cried and then laughed and then cried again at threads.

Inspired by the one that made me laugh out loud (the thread about making inadvertent suggestive comments, if any of you want to check it out)

Have any MN-ers got song lyrics wrong?

Mine include
When the moon hits your eye like a big piece of pie....

Tea - a drink with German bread

Jumboli, cod-fish pie...

And my sister's was
Sing a new song, Chick Your Teeth Out.

(can provide answers if any of those leave you guessing). What are yours?

[StVincent]

:o D.I. Eskimo. I'd definitely watch that.

[MuseumOfHam]

We've had a routine to this very odd song for the last few weeks in spin:

You can see my Army chin
You can see it from my shed

Apparently it's Rihanna and she's actually singing about her heart beating and being able to see it through her chest. The sound system isn't great at the gym, and the song was a new one on me.

[Makemeachannelofyourpeas]

Throughout my teens I sang along to Guns N Roses, singing:

lovers end up bonking in the cold November Rain...

(Apparently it's "or I'll just end up walking...")

[StealthPolarBear]

How could I have forgotten
prince charming prince charming stop being dandy showing me your hamster

[JuneFromBethesda]

We often listen to Taylor Swift in the car (I have two daughters aged 5 and 8 ...)

Her song '22' begins:

Tonight feels like the perfect night to dress up like hipsters

My 5-year-old often requests the song about dressing up like hamsters, ah bless her

[AllegraWho]

There are certain songs I will never be able to sing properly again. Israeli men, D.I. Eskimo.

In fact, D.I. Eskimo would make a great Skandi style BBC4 drama.

[kelper]

ZZ Top "Every girl's crazy bout her shot glass man"

Bryan Adams "standing on her mommas Porsche, she told me that she'd wait for ever"

[BrendaFurlong]

Macy Gray is "My world crumbles when you are not near."

[onlyslightlyinterested]

Everybody's lurking out for liver.....

[Rooroo1979]

Remember one of Michael Jackson's less popular songs called 'Dirty Diana'? To me the lyrics were always;

"Dirty Diana, no
Dirty Di answer phone".

[Shyposter]

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your soul

Blue canary in the lighthouse by the light switch... oo what she's over you

(should be who watches over you )

I went to see them with my then DP (now DH) 6 years ago, and sang them at the top of my voice along with the rest of the crowd. Turns out that nobody could tell I was saying it wrong anyway

[MapMyMum]

Oh and that annoying 90s song is chicka da china the chinese chicken youre half a drumstick and youre brain stoos ticking... my dh still giggles at this

[MapMyMum]

I predict a riot in my head is ive got tourettes...
And Michael Jackson sings dont stop til the post office...

[Sallyingforth]

We all used to sing "cucumber" instead of kumbayah

Ours was much more personal than that. Think sexual proclivities of teachers.

[JPinkertonSnoopington]

Brenda yes, that's the one. I still don't know where I got "calamine lotion" from!

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

With Macy Gray I heard: I wear goggles when you are not near

Is that not what the lyric is?

[mimbleandlittlemy]

Climb Every Woman.

And it's taken me ages to work out that Ed Sheeran will love her until she's 70. I thought it was 17 and thought that was a bit short term.

[StealthPolarBear]

Queen: another one bites the duster
Jim hendrix: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy
Jamiroquai: candy in my ears

[StVincent]

I also thought Dire Straits were singing about people getting their chips for free in Money for Nothing. Apparently it's "chicks" .

Had no idea what the song was about until last year when my dad looked at me really pityingly and explained it but it turns out the lyrics are actually funny and do make sense.

Always thought it was criticism of the band being shit - "That ain't working" - rather than saying bands are just being lazy

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

At school we had alternative words for the school song at the end of term assembly. Don't want to repeat them here in case of outing, but there were several red faces among the teachers.

We all used to sing "cucumber" instead of kumbayah.

[SquirrelChops]

Apologies if these have already been posted. Laughing so loudly at my desk, I had to leave it at page 3, bookmark for later and add mine in at the end.

With Macy Gray I heard: I wear goggles when you are not near

Toto's Africa: I know that I must do what's right; sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a lamp post above the Serengeti

[seafoodeatit]

Blondie - Call me, I've never fully listened to the lyrics and didn't know the song title or band name, DH constantly said (as a joke, unbeknown to me) that it was the corned beef song. I spent ages and ages looking up the lyrics and couldn't find anything, he still mocks me over it!

[Sallyingforth]

At school we had alternative words for the school song at the end of term assembly. Don't want to repeat them here in case of outing, but there were several red faces among the teachers.

[MackerelOfFact]

I was walking round the house yesterday singing "I'm a singing lettuce" and giggling to myself about this thread.

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

Michael Jackson's 'Don't stop til you get enough'

I thought the chorus was

'Keep on with the post doc, don't stop til you get enough'

Why Michael Jackson would be offering career advice to an early-career academic I don't know.

I must have heard the song a thousand times but I have no idea what any of the other lyrics are.

Ditto 'Come on Eileen' Dexys are one of my favourite bands and I must have heard it at every wedding I've ever been to beyond the chorus and the opening lines 'Poor Old Johnny Ray sounded sad upon the radio, broke a million hearts in mono' I haven't the foggiest what the lyrics are.