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funniest wrong lyrics

". . .back in black . . . I hit my sack, it's been so long I'm glad it turned black. I let loose . . . with a deuce . . ."

No one I knew, when that first came out, could completely "get" or understand Brian Johnson's brilliant scat in his thick as mud Newcastle brogue. (Fond memories of smoking a "J" :smoke: was some friends, playing that record and then trying to decipher the lyrics out loud to that song - and other parts of the record.) The above was one of the "interpretation" - bits that always stuck with me though I do not remember who threw that particular nonsensical gem out there waaay back in Nov./'80.

~PEACE,
Dave
 
Another for Big Old Jet Airliner: A friend at work thought it was Big Ol' Jed and Lionel. I could not stop laughing.

Also, former coworker thought Morrison said "Took a little downer 'bout an hour ago" in LA Woman (which, given Morrison's history could make sense, I guess.) I told him it was "just got into town about an hour ago."

And finally, one on me: When I was in high school I thought Sugar-Pie Honey Bunch was Sugar-fried honey bunch. :D :screwy:
 
Okay, some of these are just way off base. I mean, you really have to have wax in your ears to get those wrong.
 
I used to be sure that Freda Payne's song Band of Gold was about Pantyhose.

As in:

Since you've been gone
All that's left is your pantyhose
All that's left of the dream I hold
Is your pantyhose
And the dream of what love could be
If you are still here with me

I think I was even too young (or naive) to know why someone could possibly leave their pantyhose behind. :smoke:
 
Oh, I should say that I worked in Montreal in a big record store in about 1982. I used to hear French speakers mangle lyrics all the time.

I had someone actually ask for that song that went:

Don't go out with Ike,
He's going to steal your wife
There's a bathroom on the right

Of course this was "Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise."

It sounds even funnier with a thick Quebecois accent: bathroom becomes more like "batroom" for example. :)
 
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ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Thirty Thieves and The Thunder Chief...

don't laugh, just have a listen and try to get it out of your head. Heard this on a radio show once and the song has never been the same since.
 
I often gave the writers too much credit, e.g.,..

The morning sun when it's in your eyes really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, I think it's sacrilege
 
When I think about some of the low-fi and vintage equipment we first heard these songs played on (cheap AM car radios and low buck all-in-one home stereos) I am not that surprised that many of us mis-heard the lyrics.

I was playing my first pop record on a mono record player with a small built-in speaker (K-TEL rock compilation LP if you must know) and my first owned radio was a small AM transistor radio made in Japan in the late 60's.

It's still good for a laugh now and again when people confess their listening mishaps. :D
 
When my daughter was younger (14 years ago) I was big into home improvement tv shows. My daughter would watch them with me, This old house..
One day I was listening to the Champs sing "Tequila" only my daugher was not saying Tequila she was singing "Bob Vila". Now every time I hear that song that is all I can think of. It should be his theme song.
 
Speaking of ruining songs , I heard a parody of Bon Jovi's " Your Love is Like Bad Medicine " turned into " Your Mom Looks Like Sam Kinison " . Quite catchy .
 
Remember the Song "What's my age again?" by Blink-182?

My sister used to run around the house singing "Where's my Asian friend?"
 
my friends had a good laugh at my translation on this song...

"I'm a livin' in a box, I'm a livin' in a box, put my lid on" :screwy:

instead of The Who's..."It's an eminence front, It's an eminence front, it's a put on"
 
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zebra03 said:
Speaking of ruining songs , I heard a parody of Bon Jovi's " Your Love is Like Bad Medicine " turned into " Your Mom Looks Like Sam Kinison " . Quite catchy .
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The first time I heard Bon Jovi's "Ugly" where he spells out (singing) "U-G-L-Y" I mis-heard it as "You're G-A-Y" and then he added that if you think you're ("G-A-Y") then he is too, I thought to myself, "Oh, no! Now Jon Bon Jovi is 'outing' himself as 'gay'?! I don't believe this!" Then I looked at the song listing on the CD case and realized with what the real words were and what he was really spelling...
 
The 5 year-old nephew of a friend interpreted the following:

"Play that fun-ky mu-sic white boy..."

as:

"Play that f***ing music, wight now..."
 
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