My PopWatch compadre Gary Susman recently sent me a video of Joe Cocker singing "With a Little Help From My Friends" at Woodstock, back in Read the full post.
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My aunt thought Destiny’s Child was singing “I don’t think you’re ready for spaghetti” in ‘Bootylicious’ when it they clearly declare their jelly.
Most of you probably won’t know these songs, but these are funny. When my brother was little, he asked us what a hoon-day ha was. We asked him where he heard it, and he said, “You know, that song that goes, ‘Jesus, a friend of a hoon-day ha!’” We all started laughing, because the phrase is actually “Jesus, a friend of a wounded heart.” Also, he used to be convinced the song “Land of Opportunity” was “Land of our maternity.”
As a kid, I thought the chorus from the song “sad eyes” was “Saaaaraaah, turn the other way…”
Beach Boys- “Barbara Ann”… I always thought it was just
“Bop Bop Bop Bop Bop Bouran” haha.. whoops.
My niece used to sing the following lyrics to Britney’s Baby One More Time: “My lowly mess is filling me. I must compess I still billy.” Makes no sense, but it cracked me up, and I never corrected her.
I always thought the lyrics to Chris Brown – Poppin’ were ‘Look like you give your boy head good all the time’ instead of ‘Look like you’d give your boy here a good ol’ time’.
I always thought it was a little too risque to be played on the radio!
Whoa, Julie, that’s some spicy Disney that you listened to!
My daughter always sang JoDee Messina’s “Fool-Hearted Man” as “Two-Hearted Man.” When we were kids, my sister thought that in “Electric Avenue”, Eddie Grant was saying, “and then we’ll take your tire,” instead of, “and then we’ll take it higher.” A friend told me that her husband always sang, “Hey there, amigo” for the first line of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” instead of “Hey where did we go.” Of course, now I can’t hear the songs without hearing (and singing) the “new and improved” lyrics.
My most embarrassing lyric mishap was when I mistook the line in Train’s Drops of Jupiter “that heaven is overrated” for “Van Halen is overrated.”
My very senile Italian great-grandmother thought the chorus of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” was “I need some pasta, baby linguini, pasta, maybe tonight.” Unfortunately I am not making this up. I really wish I was.
Close second, from the same grandma mind you, was the lyric “Let’s go to Walbaums!” in the place of “More than a woman!” by the Bee Gees. Again, sad but true.
I knew a girl that thought the lyrics to Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping were “I get no towels/ when I get out the bath/ are they ever going to give me towels.” Instead of “I get knocked down/ but I get up again/ are they ever going to keep me down.” (OR something to that effect). Okay, okay, by “girl” I meant me. But seriously, the song is called TUBthumping!!!
Last one I can remember getting wrong is an Interpol song, Evil. I always thought it was “Saying, hey why can’t we look the other way.” Found out it’s “Sandy, why can’t we look the other way.”
I have no idea what the real lyrics are, because I only ever here this song when someone else is in control of the radio, but in Enrique Eglasias song “Bailamos” he sings “Let the rhythm take you over, bailamos, te quiero…” and then I’m pretty sure the next line is “My burrito”. That makes sense right? Lets dance, you want my burrito?
From Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime,” the part in the chorus where he says “Into the blue again, after the money’s gone,” I always interpreted as “after the MUDDY STORM.” Doesn’t my way make much more sense, though?
In Tina Turner’s song, “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” my uncle always thought she was saying, “What’s left after you’re doing it!” AAGH!
TO MCCANN:
You’re never going to believe this – but I scrolled down to leave a comment about my friend for this post and figured, before I do, let’s see what other people have said and maybe I can learn something to prevent me from ever saying the wrong words – and the funniest thing happened.
The story I wagoing to post about my ditzy friend saying “why would you ever give someone a cross-eyed bear?” was already written down!!! yes, believe it or not, I have an infamously airhead friend who loves to sing and he used always change Alanis’ “cross I bear” into “cross eyed-bear” in Oughta Know. I can’t wait to tell him!!! he’s gonna die from laughter!!! I JUST DID!
too bad your older sister is a girl – otherwise, I’d try to fix him up =)(with what sounds like a would-be perfect match!!)