Do you hear what I hear?

Czar · #1 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 05:46 PM

Since one of the major singing holidays has past and wenwilders rousing parody to "this is the song that doesn't end". The hampster started up again.

Music, since I was very little, (Yes I was little once for about a week in 1983) has been a haven of sorts ... a break from life and other such annoyances. So I started thinking about Mishears lyrics, and here is my personal top 5.

1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Blinded By The Light"
Misheard Lyrics:
And no-card Bogard was checkin' out the women cart
to see if it was safe outside
Correct Lyrics:
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside

2.Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like A Bird"
Misheard Lyrics:
For my love is gay
For my love is Coolio.
Correct Lyrics:
For my love is great
For my love is true, oh.

3.Nirvana's "All Apologies"
Misheard Lyrics:
Alan Alda's all we are.
Correct Lyrics:
All in all is all we are

4.Elton John's "Candle In The Wind"
Misheard Lyrics:
They set you on the president and made you chant to him
Correct Lyrics:
They set you on the treadmill and they made you change your name

I find this one rather funny because the song was written about Marilyn monroe and she was supposedly a Mistress of JFK's

5.Madonna's "Burning Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
I deserve the Inquisition
Correct Lyrics:
I deserve the imposition

I don't know... fitting maybe? :-))

Hope to see what you all come up with :-)

Czar

paulhiles · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 06:03 PM

Boy oh boy, that hampster of yours just doesn't know when to stop does it? LOL!!

One rich resource for misheard lyrics and song spoofs is the appropriately named, amiright.com.

Another is kissthisguy.com - a sample below:

Song: All Along The Watchtower
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
-------------------------------
The real lyrics were:
So let us not talk falsely now. The hour is getting late.

But I misheard them as:
Some writers were talking falsely now that I was getting laid.

it's as though Jimi were in the room with me! :o)

Paul

Czar · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 06:20 PM

lol I use to have a book published years ago called "excuse me while I kiss this guy- and other misheard lyrics". Since then I started a collection.

Can't wait to see what others come up with lol.

COME ON PEOPLE FEED THE HAMPSTER. lol

minstrel · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 06:32 PM

Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders (from memory so it may not be quite right):
"standing in the middle of the road with my pants behind me" (supposed to be "plans")

Speaking of Hendrix and All Along The Watchtower, he got the lyrics wrong himself in that one, trying to figure out what Dylan was saying by ear (never easy with Dylan):

Jimi sang:
"Business men may drink my wine
Ploughman dig my earth
All of them along the line
Nobody of it is worth"

Dylan wrote:
"Business men they drink my wine
Ploughmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth"

paulhiles · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 06:57 PM

Surely the most famous of these misheard lyrics has to be Desmond Dekker's hit

"The Israelites"
Misheard Lyrics:
Oh, oh, me ears are alight
Correct Lyrics:
Poor, Poor me Israelites

Paul

ronniethedodger · #6 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Czar

1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Blinded By The Light"
Misheard Lyrics:
And no-card Bogard was checkin' out the women cart
to see if it was safe outside
Correct Lyrics:
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside

There is another part in this song also and I think
the actual words are "Reved up like a Deuce until they rode into the night".

I don't want to repeat what I think the words sound like here.

Heck I still don't know what the words are to this day. If I did, then the song wouldn't be cool any more. ;0)

minstrel · #7 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 07:43 PM

Yeah, the Manfred Mann version slurs the word "deuce", making an "sh" sound.

Even when you know the words, you're not a whole lot further ahead with this one... here's another small sample:

Quote:

Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers clappin' his hands
And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand
And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band

And she was blinded by the light
Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright

Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
He says, Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, that's where they expect it least
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner all alone watchin' the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone to remind him of the feeling of romance

Yeah he was blinded by the light
Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
He got down but she never got tight, but he's gonna make it tonight

paulhiles · #8 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 07:52 PM

A great image of a classic UK band from the 70's
I swear the guy on the right is saying "Do you hear what I hear?" :o)

source

Paul

ronniethedodger · #9 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 07:59 PM

Now that I know more of the words to the song, how could I be so Blind? ;0)

Heck after reading the words that Minstrel posted,
the song is even more lewder than I ever imagined it.

This was actually a Springsteen song at first wasn't it?

mikmik · #10 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 08:09 PM

How about Eddie Murphy parodying the idea with "Buckwheat's Versions Of Great Hits" - I'll see if there is info. It was a semi-regular skit on Saturday Night Live (There's one - Saturday Day Night's all Right By Elton J.)

Buckwheat's Three Times a Lady
Die gim ooo... Munce, Di fee di a mady ..

I Think???

minstrel · #11 (**permalink**) 12-29-2003, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronniethedodger

after reading the words that Minstrel posted, the song is even more lewder than I ever imagined it. This was actually a Springsteen song at first wasn't it?

Yes, Bruce Springsteen wrote it and recorded it I think on the Asbury Park (Heights?) album. And you're right - the song at points is a bit graphic (I posted two of the less controversial verses) - maybe that's why there are so many words, intended to be sung in rapid succession so no-one really knows what's being said...