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?

REM the sidewinder sleeps
"Calling Cheryl Baker up"

Mine are both Jamiraquai

Why does it have to be like this
I can never tell
You make me love you love you baby
With a little elf

Yeah yeah
Alright
We'll spend the night together
Wake up the little fella

D I Eskimo.

I thought it was 'living on bread' rather than 'living on a prayer'...oh dear.

Oh, and I thought Smooth Criminal was ' the janitor is not my son'

pulp - common people

she came from greece
she had a first from norwich ..... :)

That's me in the corner, that's me in the Spar like I'm losing my religion.

Think I was imagining some kind of bleak housing estate that would make Michael Stipe want to throw it all in.

JPinkertonSnoopington

( I was four when I misheard this one)
Calamine lotion sticks together
Calamine lotion all those cows

Is that from Oklahoma, The Farmer and the Cowman? The cows bit sort of makes sense given the rest of the song. The calamine lotion, not so much.

Billy Idol eyes without a face

"Your arse about face"

DD (2) was dancing around the living room the other day, singing to Fleetwood Mac, "I'm just sucking on you, I'm just sucking on yoooooou..."

"Israeli men! Hallelujah!"

This thread is great.

DH's aunt got married a few years ago and her and her husband (both in late 60s/early 70s) were searching for a first dance song.

They didn't want anything traditional and fancied something modern and with a beat that they could dance to.

They finally found one and told us to expect more of a "dancey" song.

Imagine our faces when they step up to dance in all their regalia and start raving to "Blow My Whistle".

Only later when we told them what the lyrics were and what it meant, they were mortified but found it hysterical.

Haven't RTWT so sorry if it's been mentioned already, but my perennial favourite is:
Gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
Like a Cilla Black fan on a bike.

Doubles me up every time.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Is that not what the lyric is?

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

We all used to sing "cucumber" instead of kumbayah

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

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