And now for something completely different...
Well, I think everyone missed the mystery song last time, but I'll bet everyone knows it.
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Oh well. Better luck next time.
This time, I am interested in learning something else. I would like to know what song lyrics you have gotten totally wrong and eventually learned this to your own amusements or someone else's. For instance, perhaps you have been singing certain lyrics to an Elton John song as:
Hold me close now Tony Danza
Got the head lice up in High Winds...
Got it? (Actually, considering Sir Elton, the Tony Danza part may be right, after all.) Anyway, it is funny to hear some of these errors, so I would like to hear yours or perhaps some you know about.
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Barbara Ann
Oh well. Better luck next time.
This time, I am interested in learning something else. I would like to know what song lyrics you have gotten totally wrong and eventually learned this to your own amusements or someone else's. For instance, perhaps you have been singing certain lyrics to an Elton John song as:
Hold me close now Tony Danza
Got the head lice up in High Winds...
Got it? (Actually, considering Sir Elton, the Tony Danza part may be right, after all.) Anyway, it is funny to hear some of these errors, so I would like to hear yours or perhaps some you know about.
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When we were little, my brother used to sing, "My momma she's crazy." instead of "Momma he's crazy." by the Judds ~ Hilarious to see and hear a three year old telling his dear mom that she's a little on the loopy side!!!
"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.
Four hundred children a cop in the feel."
My son thought the Star Spangled Banner was:
Jose can you see?
By the dawn's early light
We live in San Antonio and Jose is a very common name around here.
"Man to man, hoochie hoo..."
This is a Gary Alan song, and because I rarely listen to country, it wasn't until a year or so later that someone corrected me. The actual words are "man to man, who cheated who..."
Oh yeah, and another country song that my dad corrected me on- Willie & Toby's song "Beer for my Horses." I was singing, "Whiskey for my men, before my horses!"
Umm.....I just want to say that I have NO IDEA how Katie's dad knew the correct lyrics to that song! He is NOT a country fan, but I suppose he is a Willie fan! Katie...what's said here better stay here!
Why do we scream at each other,
This is what is sounds like,
WINDOWS cry
- When Doves Cry by Prince
Start me up,
Once you start me up I never stop,
You make the CROW MAN cry.
- Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones
That's okay, Brad. Keith Richards didn't know the lyrics, either.
"Now let us have a little chocolate Jesus..."
Careless Whispers, George Michael
I'm never gonna dance again,
Can't ya see I got no rhythm.
I thought maybe he was embarassed by his dance moves?
Head Over Feet, Alanis Morisette
Your my best friend
Best friend within a fence.
(best friend with benefits)
If I remember correctly, waaaaay back when Kendra used to sing the Tears for Fears song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" as "Everybody wants to Say Hello". Does that sound familiar?
"Stomp on my fingers, the blame is on me."
It's really "Stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me." It's from some Boyz to Men song I can't remember the name of.
I wrote a column for the local paper on this very topic about a year ago. I just posted it on my blog if anyone's interested.
I just recalled another one:
"It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you. There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do." -- Toto's Africa
It's "a hundred men OR MORE." Oh, well. I like my version better.
"Who wrote the book of love?"
My FIL thought it was,
"Ooh-wa-pa-doo-ka-la!"
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