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getting song lyrics wrong

187 replies

fatmomma99 · 12/06/2016 01:05

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?

OP posts:
MrsJayy · 14/06/2016 10:23

Saw it on a documentary they were arsing about at the recording and decided to leave it in.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 14/06/2016 10:38

From Where have all the Cowboys gone?

Where is my furry socks? (yes rubbish grammar as well as making no sense)

The chourus is actually...
Where is my John Wayne?
Where is my prairie song?

Zosebrina · 14/06/2016 10:50

an old friend of mine used to sing feeee boooo woooaahhhh for feed the world xmas song! Grin

That will smith song - Miami - "party in the city with the heaters on"
Jason derulo song "it's too hot to sleep, I've got the sh*ts on the floor"
en vogue don't let go " I always tell myself the stars are brown, oh what shame"

My Oh's little boy has started singing what I thought was the backstreet boys song backstreet back, except he sings something about a chicken satay instead! I think its from the just eat advert but I start singing along with him and sing the original version and he tells ME I'm singing the wrong lyrics! lol.

MyCatWasRightAboutYou · 14/06/2016 12:11

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,
With four hundred children who crap in the field

If I were Lucille I'd be long gone as well. Hmm

AnnPerkins · 14/06/2016 12:29

My friend's DD used to sing Beyonce's 'I'm a singing lettuce'.

Raahh · 14/06/2016 12:41

Eurythmics-'There must be an Angel'.
In the line- 'overblown with bliss', my sister used to insist it was 'overgrown with fleas'.

There are a couple of UB40 ones- maybe it's not my hearing, just Ali Campbell's lazy dictionGrin

vladthedisorganised · 14/06/2016 12:44

Glad someone else heard 'I'm not from the Ruskin' Mrsray!
There is a Ruskin school of fine art in Oxford but I suspected it was a bit specific..

BestOnlineCommentSite · 14/06/2016 13:00

Bananarama - Robert De Niro - I though the chorus was: "Robert DeNiro's waiting, talking in tiger (talking in tiger - echo). Of course it was "talking Italian" but it doesn't sound like that and I didn't know who Robert DeNiro was.

Lenazabaglione · 14/06/2016 13:47

Taylor Swift is always confusing us old people. I thought she was on about Starbucks as well. Also thought Twenty Two was Sweaty Too - I don't know about you, I'm feeling sweaty too.....

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 14/06/2016 13:56

And for over 20 years I thought Madonna started La Isla Bonita 'last night I dreamt of some dago

I thought that too. She's the Queen of reinvention and taboo breaking (or until Lady Gaga came along and rendered her pointless ) so perhaps it was part of an ill advised Bernard Manning phase.

MardAsSnails · 14/06/2016 14:08

Come on crazywriter, I thought everyone knew its a God Damn Arse Face

Also that Timbaland song - its too late to apologise. For ages I thought it was too late for Farmer Giles. Too late for what, I don't know, but i did feel sorry for poor old Farmer Giles.

Mamadothehump · 14/06/2016 14:28

Even Taylor Swift's Mum thought so!!!

time.com/3895936/taylor-swift-blank-space-lyrics-starbucks-lovers/

EccentricPickle · 14/06/2016 14:48

😂 At "I'm a singing lettuce".

My friend thought "I predict a riot" was "I could get Tourette's, I could get Tourette's".

Tiny Dancer - "hold me close and tie me down sir."

"I think that I've found myself a cherryaid" cheerleader!

BuonoEstente · 14/06/2016 16:27

Proper howling at these 😊

BuonoEstente · 14/06/2016 16:32

Billie Jean, "but Ken is not my son

PurpleRibbons · 14/06/2016 16:48

These are hilarious! There was a radio phone in a few months ago of misheard lyrics. My favourite was Roy Orbison "I drove all night and crapped in your room"!
My mum thought "Cherish" by Madonna was called "Perish".

blitheringbuzzards1234 · 14/06/2016 17:14

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band causes a lot of confusion:

something *something by a doozhon

when it's ... by a deuce and a runner in the night.

*can't make out that bit at all.

SlinkyVagabond · 14/06/2016 18:16

Me and dh have had several "heated exchanges" about Blinded by the Light.
I sing "wrapped up like a douche"
And he sings wrapped up like a deuce.
Robert De Niro-we had a friend who instead of "talking Italian" sang "fucking Italians"

TSSDNCOP · 14/06/2016 19:51

"Let me photograph in you this lidocaine" stalks sings Adele in my head

Bluetrews25 · 14/06/2016 20:11

The Killers, Mr Brightside, there's a bit that always sounds like 'paella......paella' or could it be 'viyella........viyella' ?
Just googled and it's 'I never......I never'

Every day's a school day, eh?

GhettoFabulous · 14/06/2016 20:14

Lady Gaga, Alejassandro:

"She's got both hands in a bucket, and she won't look at you."

Backingvocals · 14/06/2016 20:55

Like a nine stone cowboy...

greathat · 14/06/2016 21:30

There's a Corrs? one where they sing about cooking sausages

greathat · 14/06/2016 21:33

Give me a reason, I'm making sausages

PuppyMonkey · 14/06/2016 21:58

Don't forget the ABBA classic:

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco...