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Reply with a MISHEARD LYRIC
Posted by JeffLeopard on 24 September 2009 - 6:46pm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase.
To start us off:
Nowhere Man - "...isn't He a bit like you, Aunt Mimi?"
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The obvious
Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie
Put your hands all over my body
dexys..
come on Eileen - it's not 'and we can sing this like our fathers' it's actually quite clearly 'and we can sink this like a volvo'
Still my favourite
"Living is easy with nice clothes"
There's Jimi of course:
" 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. "
But you're right. Nice clothes would make all the difference...
Top Cat Theme
Close friends get to call him TC
Robidigiswepticatee
arf
it was only thru this site (I think) that I found out what the actual line was.
is there life on mars ?
...and the workers have struck for fame
cos the lemon's on sale again....
Wildebeest..
I use to think the Beatles sang "She's not the herdin' kind" when I was a nipper. Also "Excerpt from a Teenage opera" the words "Grocer Jack" translated in my head as "Grosser Jack" I can almost forgive myself for them as I was a young 'un, but for months I was astonished and horrified that the BBC could play "You're the one that I want" from Grease with Olivia Newton John apparently singing "Meditate my erection, feel your way." I swear to God that is what I thought she was singing. It was only when Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard's version came out I realised my mistake. And I STILL thought they'd sanitised it for the old 'uns. I'll get me anti-depressants now.
Sweet sole music
To me the first line still sounds like:
I got shoes... they're multiplying.
Quite a pleasing image.
The one that always puzzled me...
..was in Bowie's "Sweet Thing", which I now know to be
"Someone scrawled on the wall 'I smell the blood of Les Tricoteuses'"
Who was "Les Treecutter"? What did his blood smell like? and why did he write up "scandals and other bores" (or is it "scandals in other bars"?)
"Who you gonna call?
Those bastards!"
REM
Martin Pulumbo and the Game Of Life
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...
My mate had point out that it was Mott The Hoople... As I'd never heard of them, I still thought my invented American celeb Marty Pulumbo seemed more plausible. I didn't really accept the truth until I shelled out sixteen quid for the song book... (You wouldn't have to do that these days...)
Why are the Ruts
Burning The guest house in "Babylon's Burning" ?
and in The Clash's Complete Control who is Daryl Tomlin ? as in "This is Daryl Tomlin Speaking (copyright Danny Baker)
Eat A Trifle By The Jam
to eaton rifles of course
She's A Muscular Boy
by Herman and The Hermits.
And the perennial
'Go And Get Stuffed', by Billy Ocean.
Mulligan's tyre
Old mince rolling in from the sea.
Valley, Floyd road
Surely... :)
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing penguins?
Even if it leads nowhere.
And after Adele, there's Duffy
You got me beggin' you for birdseed (yeah, yeah)
I believe In Melchior ...
.... you sexy thing.
Whether one of the wise men was sexy Luke's gospel doesn't chronicle.
The Wanderer
"with my toothpaste divine I'm goin' nowhere..."
mmmm that delicious toothpaste, it's got me rooted to the spot.
And Manfred Mann "blinded by the light, wrecked up like a dooshun of a runner in the night" what a dooshun might be, I have yet to discover, but y'know, I'm still trying...
Walking In Memphos - Not Strictly Misheard
- Cher - Where the hell is Memphos?