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Location: CA | You know, the words you thought you heard vs. the actual lyrics:
My two biggies:
1. Song Lyric: "Wishin' I were a fast freight train just a chooglin on down to New Orleans..." (Credence)
What I Though He Said: "Wishin I were a fast freak Pete . . . ."
2. "After the boys of summer have gone . . . " (Don Henley)
WITHS: "After the poison summer has gone . . ."
extra credit: For the longest time when I was a kid, I actually though there was a letter calle 'elemeno'. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | "There's a bathroom on the right" - CCR 
Traveling through Tennessee when my brother and I first heard 'Bad Moon' on the car's AM radio.  |
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Location: big island | "...that would be ecstasy, you and me and LSD" is what my mom and i heard and sang back in the 60's. should be, "...you and me endlessly" ("groovin'" by the rascals) |
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Location: Vernon CT | 2ifby, thats mine too. Good thing we weren't looking for it only to find out it was on the left!! :D |
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Location: NW Washington State | Originally posted by lanaki:
"...that would be ecstasy, you and me and LSD" is what my mom and i heard and sang back in the 60's. should be, "...you and me endlessly" ("groovin'" by the rascals) I always thought it was "you and me and Leslie". |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy ! |
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Location: Jet City | Wrapped up like a douche... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Damon67:
Wrapped up like a douche... Ahhhh, I'm not the only one! 
Donovan and 'Mellow Yellow": "that's right 'slick'". That was a pop phrase while I was in the Air Force at that time... I lost a bar bet on that one! 
I won't even get into 'Louie, Louie'... It took over 12 years for me to let go of 'my ears' on that one! I remember standing around the Hi-Fi record player with my buds going "YEAH!"
BTW, I love this thread! Stand by for more of my aural 'bloopers'... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's what I thought it was, too. I know there are bunches more, but I can't think of any now. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | A day's worth of fun |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by lanaki:
my mom and i heard and sang back in the 60's. If your Mom was into the Rascals,  !
Bing, Perry Como and Larence Welk was my Mom's genre giants. Later in her life Do Ho was a favorite. God rest her soul, but I never want to hear the word 'bubbles' again (nothin' personal lanaki  )! |
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Location: Midland, MI | My wife continually reminds me of the one misheard lyric I have ever (as far as I know) uttered out loud and within earshot of another human.
What I heard:
"Here come the minutemen."
What it really says:
"Here come the men in black..." some Will Smith (I think) song.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My father was a gambler down in Georgia,
And he wound-up on the 'run in Oregon'... (actually "Wrong end of a Gun")
Had to read a Lyric sheet to learn that... :rolleyes: But I heard the first version for years! |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by lanaki:
my mom and i heard and sang back in the 60's. If your Mom was into the Rascals, !
Bing, Perry Como and Larence Welk was my Mom's genre giants. Later in her life Do Ho was a favorite. God rest her soul, but I never want to hear the word 'bubbles' again (nothin' personal lanaki )! |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | Bingo Jed had a light on.
(big ole' jet airliner) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Erniewan:
Bingo Jed had a light on.
(big ole' jet airliner) You owe me a keyboard.... 
lanaki
Either your vids are very deceptive or you lived at home way too long! 
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Location: CA | Another misheard one, which bizarrely enough works almost better than the correct one . . .
From 'City of New Orleans'
Correct: And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of STEEL
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they FEEL.
What I heard:
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of STEAM
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they DREAM. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by Weaser P:
A day's worth of fun |
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| She's a Muscular Boy by Herman's Hermits. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Whoops, dvd, you caught me sleeping.
Again. :rolleyes: |
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| .."should I try to do some more?..25 or 6 to 4"..
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA | Not mine but my wife's ex-boss just loved the song:
"Paul Bummerson... don't want to be... Paul Bummerson... anymore..."
I believe it should be "all by myself..."
Whenever we hear the song, we have a good laugh.
How about CSN's "polish star"? (Police car?) Always wondered which ones were the Polich stars. Maybe the ones that go away after you rub your eyes. It's okay. I can say that. I'm of Polish decent. Wait, is Polish decent a joke?
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Maybe he just has bad diction....from another Steve Miller song;
"Touchin' down in New England town
Big money comin' down"
(correct: Feel the heat comin' down) |
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Location: big island | how 'bout johnny rivers singin' "secret asian man"? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by lanaki:
how 'bout johnny rivers singin' "secret asian man"? You say that like those aren't the real lyrics. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I used to intentionally throw bad lyrics in if I was playing in front of a bunch of friends just to see the reaction. The ones who knew I was just kidding would quietly snicker but the others would stop the song and correct me. 'Course I would maintain mine were accurate and sometmes I would get backup from another friend which made it all the more fun. My own little Candid Camera routine.
Yeah, I know what you're all thinking but, c'mon, if I don't amuse myself with silly things, who will? |
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Location: big island | michael mcdonald lyrics i thought i heard: "ya mo be there"
actual lyrics: "ya mo be there" |
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Location: Nashville TN. | There is a bunch of them here
http://www.kissthisguy.com/ |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Slooo-ow motion Walter
The Fire Engine guy
dunh dunh DAAAA
dunh dunh DA DAAA! |
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Location: Chicago | I'm sure this has posted before, but you might like this video of garbled Creedence lyrics..... |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | The girl with colitis goes by..... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | quote:
Originally posted by lanaki:
how 'bout johnny rivers singin' "secret asian man"?
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Then Crusty said:
You say that like those aren't the real lyrics. it's about Phil "Wong-Way" Wong... |
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Location: SoCal | "Young girls sure get wooly" -- Bull Durham |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Weaser wrote:
I used to intentionally throw bad lyrics in if I was playing in front of a bunch of friends just to see the reaction. Dean Martin used to do that on his variety show during the (piano in the living room) segment.
One in particular I remember
"Please release me, let me go.
For I don't love you anymore.
To waste our lives would be a sin.
Release me, you know we both are men." |
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Best Misunderstood Song Lyric