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Thread for misheard song lyrics

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FrannyandZooey · 07/07/2006 21:52

Ds has been listening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkel lately, so today we had

"Just a come on from the horse on seventh avenue"

which I think is a great improvement on the original, in fact

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Orinoco · 08/07/2006 21:32

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SherlockLGJ · 08/07/2006 21:40

Ding dong merrily on high,
In heav'n the bells are ringing:
Ding dong! verily the sky
Is riv'n with angel singing.
Gloria, Hosanna lives in Chelsea

E'en so here below, below,
Let steeple bells be swungen,
And "Io, io, io!"
By priest and people sungen.
Gloria, Hosanna lives in Chelsea

Pray you, dutifully prime
Your matin chime, ye ringers;
May you beautifully rime
Your evetime song, ye singers.
Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis lives in Chelsea

SherlockLGJ · 08/07/2006 21:43

The best bit is .............in church on Christmas morning, both my Dsis and my Dbro now sing at the top of our voices..........Hosanna lives in Chelsea.

My Mum cringes because she can see us taking a deep breath just before the crucial line, to make sure we are in good voice.

Thanks for this Faz.

Xena · 08/07/2006 21:47

I asked my mum what 'sinners kiss' was.... you know the cher song 'its in his kiss'

bran · 08/07/2006 21:47

When ds was about 23 months we were out for lunch and had chips (a rare treat), he was so thrilled that he launched into a chorus of "The big chip sailed on the alley-alley-o".

gettingthere · 08/07/2006 21:48

I've just watch the Kaiser Chiefs on T in the park and it does sound like 'I fake tourettes'. Unsure of spelling as large amounts of cider have been consumed!!!

southeastastra · 08/07/2006 21:48

i hear coldplays ' all that noise all that sound' whatever as 'all that wine all that cheese'

Posey · 08/07/2006 21:49

Can't for the life of me recall the singer but it was a female, early 80s singing
C'est la vie, c'est la vie...

Dead cool girl in my year, super-bitch really but miss popular, prancing round playground singing "say you love me, say you love me..."

How we sniggered

Xena · 08/07/2006 21:51

posey you were at school when that was realised I thought I was a 'youngun'

Xena · 08/07/2006 21:51

DH says they are called bewitched? Irish girls

Posey · 08/07/2006 22:03

No not the one I'm thinking of! Have tried googling it but not enough to go on. Dh would know but he's not here!
I'm not a youngun!

Posey · 08/07/2006 22:07

Actually think it was Robbie Nevil, 1986, so not a woman at all!!

Rowlers · 08/07/2006 22:31

Whenever I heard U2 singing "I'm in a place called Birmingham", I thought, poor them.
He's actually in a place called Vertigo which is so much more profound, man.

tiswas · 09/07/2006 16:23

I always thought Primal Scream were singing
Get you're rocks off get your rocks off honey
shake them down down, get a muff down town !!!
And thought how rude
Until my friend corected me (get them off down town)

sparkler1wantsaconservatory · 09/07/2006 16:58

Okay I shall tell you about my Cheryl Baker one. It's rude so don't read if offended.

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight by REM has lyrics

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.

We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.

*

If you listen to it it actually sounds like

Cummin in Cheryl Baker
F' in hell I wish she'd keep still.

DH used to sing these lyrics as a joke when I very first heard the song and the trouble is I can't hear anything else every time I hear it now.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/07/2006 17:04

LOL I know exactly the song you mean - it does sound just like that

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southeastastra · 09/07/2006 17:33

i will never look at cheryl baker the same again

berthablatherwick · 09/07/2006 17:35

I used to sing "Olivia, tell us the time" instead of "Living on Tulsa Time" by Eric Clapton. Was very embarrassed when I bought the record in my teens and discovered my error...I had always laughed loudly at everyone else's mistakes!

drpepper · 09/07/2006 17:49

i am having trouble with lyrics at the moment the song is somebodys watching me dont know if it says :
i walk the streets like somebody's watching me
or:
i always feel like somebody's watching me
or:
have no escape like somebody's watching me

or if its something totally different if anyone knows let me know please !

Wallace · 09/07/2006 19:10

I think it sounds like "I'm on a speedboat somebody's watching me"*

SaintGeorge · 09/07/2006 19:16

I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy, whoa-oa-oa
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream

Turquoise · 09/07/2006 19:19

There's a Phil Collins track called 'I want to hold you like China' - I was convinced it said 'I wanna hold your vagina'.
Also Madonna 'Young girl with eyes like potatoes'.

fisil · 09/07/2006 19:27

DP always goes on about a Madonna one he heard someone singing: "Bill Odie, Bill Odie, rub yourself all over my body"

Cornershop confused us all. I thought it was "Grim poodle basher"

Much to my I asked a friend why the song said "he'd f**k his own brother" (apparently it was actually "funk soul brother"!)

And I thought that the Wigital Line Man was "digital land mine"

Cherlock LGJ - my baby brother used to sing "hosanna in a shell suit"

SaintGeorge · 09/07/2006 19:29

Wichita Lineman

oxocube · 09/07/2006 19:31

dd used to sing Kylie's ' can't get you out of my head' as 'can't get you out of my hair' when we had an outbreak of headlice!!

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