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Post by solgroupie on Apr 27, 2010 8:52:04 GMT -5
38 special's hold on loosely - when they say, "if you cling too tightly, you're going to lose control," but i hear, "you're going to lose your toe."
and chicken, i looked up the couldn't get it right lyrics - it's "just another no account fatality."
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 27, 2010 19:56:19 GMT -5
Thanks Solgroupie!
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Post by Bix Dugan on Apr 27, 2010 20:13:56 GMT -5
...he was small and of no account.
I don't know what song Phanty was on about-
Anyone else?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Apr 27, 2010 20:33:59 GMT -5
Bad Moon Rising, Credence.
"There's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "There's a bathroom on the right."
I never heard it as that but I thought it was pretty funny when I read about that.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Apr 27, 2010 20:59:17 GMT -5
I think I may have heard it as "bedroom..."
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Post by callipygias on Apr 28, 2010 15:25:48 GMT -5
When I was little I thought it was perfectly normal my brother would play a song that kept saying, "There's a bathroom on the right."
He also had a Fleetwood Mac album, and instead of, "Rhiannon," I heard, "Yeeeeaaah, no."
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 28, 2010 16:10:51 GMT -5
I just thought of the most incomprehensible song I can ever remember hearing; next to "Feels Like Teen Spirit;" "Come On Eileen" by "The Dexy Midnight Runners." I think I can only understand every fifth word sung..."something something something something devil!" So I have absolutely no clue to whatever Eileen supposed too be coming on about. "Come on, I'm into new Roy!"
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 28, 2010 23:11:47 GMT -5
I just thought of the most incomprehensible song I can ever remember hearing; next to "Feels Like Teen Spirit;" "Come On Eileen" by "The Dexy Midnight Runners." I think I can only understand every fifth word sung..."something something something something devil!" So I have absolutely no clue to whatever Eileen supposed too be coming on about. "Come on, I'm into new Roy!" Interestingly, I never really knew the words to this either until I heard Save Ferris's sorta-ska cover of it, in which the lyrics are enunciated fairly clearly. I never would have guessed them otherwise. www.lyrics007.com/Dexy's%20Midnight%20Runners%20Lyrics/Come%20On%20Eileen%20Lyrics.html
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 29, 2010 0:06:32 GMT -5
Damn, your link didn't work. I'll go and look it up and listen to it. 5 minutes later: You're right, I could understand most of the lyrics this time. Not a bad re-make but still, I like the original better. Incomprehensibility is sometimes good for a song.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 29, 2010 9:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 30, 2010 13:20:37 GMT -5
heard another one here at work today - the judds (winona!) had a song called turn it loose -
they sing - put on your shoutin' shoes (?)
i hear: put on yer shower shoes
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 30, 2010 21:16:04 GMT -5
heard another one here at work today - the judds (winona!) had a song called turn it loose - they sing - put on your shoutin' shoes (?) i hear: put on yer shower shoes I don't blame you for hearing it wrong. WTF are shoutin' shoes???
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Post by Bix Dugan on May 22, 2010 7:15:43 GMT -5
I was listening to NPR's "Sez You" (the word-play show) and they mentioned a word that is the topic of this thread, mis-heard song lyrics.
Mondegreen:
–noun a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard.
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Origin: 1954; coined by Sylvia Wright, U.S. writer, from the line laid him on the green, interpreted as Lady Mondegreen, in a Scottish ballad
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 25, 2010 22:26:33 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but for years I misheard the lyrics to the MST3K theme song. The part where they say "and we'll monitor his mind" I always heard as "and the monitor is mine." I figured it was a line from the mads point of view.
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Post by solgroupie on Jun 4, 2010 11:03:22 GMT -5
i am at work and heard a sawyer brown song earlier - am not sure of the title, but i heard, "i'll be around like a second hand chicken," but my program director said it was actually "second hand ticking." i still think it's chicken.
chicken!
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