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Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

I don't think I've heard that song by Outkast, but it sounds hilarious!


-and this: "lambsedotes and dozeydotes and little lambs of ivy"... I've heard lampchop singing that too. Here I go again... Ummmm... Isn't that what she's really saying?
What is she really saying then?
LOL!!!! That is too darn funny. I know!!! Doesn't that sound right? Deb25 is right about what it really said. HE HE HE
 

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Originally Posted by RicaLynn

If memory serves (which it does so much less frequently these days
) this was originally a Bing Crosby ditty. I learned it in first grade from my *ancient* teacher (she did retire two years later)

It goes:

Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?

OR, if you're feeling particularly silly, I've SEEN the lyrics written this way:

Marezy dotes and doesie dotes and liddlam seedivy, a kiddly divy too wouldn't you.

I had the same problem y'all did w/Blinded by the Light primarily because the real lyrics didn't make any more sense to me than my made up ones!!

I'm really bad about getting lyrics right, I think because my OCD kicks in and I hate to be wrong
OMG, that is it!!! That just cracks me up reading this. All these years I have been saying some jarbled words and very confident that I was right! LOL
I love Bing Crosby, I didn't know he was the original singer of that. Now I want to find that song. I have his xmas album.
He he he, I hear ya about the OCD. I have that really bad!! I spend alot of time looking up lyrics. I just looked up the lyrics for "Blue Bayou" the other day.
 

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Don't know if you know the song but the song is "Message" Sung by Tina Arena

Real Lyrics

Once again I sit and wonder
Was something I said so wrong

We sang

One again I sit and chunder
Something I ate was wrong

My Dad & I used to have so much fun singing this! I've typed this before I've read the rest of the thread so I'm going to go and check it out now!
 

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Originally Posted by ciera23

LOL!!!
These are hilarious!
Ok, here are a couple I screwed up. There's alot but this is the one's I can think of off the top of my head:

Artist: Outkast
Song: Hey Ya
Lyrics I thought it said: "Shake it like a porno white feature"

Real lyrics: "Shake it like a polaroid picture"

Wow, way off!!! My friend laughed so hard at me when she heard me singing it.

The other one is a childhood song and I can't remember the real words (maybe someone else will) by Shari Lewis and lambchops (i think?)
I thought it was just jumbled words but it really says something....

Here is what I thought it said:
"lambsedotes and dozeydotes and little lambs of ivy
LOL about the Outkast song!
 

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I have bad hearing, period, but when I could still listen to music, I got a lot of lyrics wrong.

Here's what I thought I heard in the Eagles' "Hotel California":

"One paraplegic, rising up through the air,"

Actual line:
"Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air"

I don't remember the artist, but there was a song that went:

"Give me the Beach Boys, and free my soul"

Somebody pointed out that the line was actually:

"Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul"

It was Bill Withers: http://www.lyrics007.com/Bill%20With...%20Lyrics.html
 

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Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

That's too cute Sarah!
I would rate that at
bags for arguing so long about it!
I feel so silly now!
I was certainly convinced! Even eighteen years on, I haven't lived it down!


Another song that has caused trouble was one of the Britney Spears songs (not a clue what it's called and that's not because i'm trying to be cool!)

My Mum thought it was:
'Oh Baden Baden how was I supposed to know....' (thinking it was something to do with the Scouts' and Guides' Baden Powell)

Real Lyrics:
'Oh Baby Baby how was I supposed to know....'
 

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Originally Posted by RoyalEnchntrss

Theres that blue song i think it was by moby???
I always thought he was saying "Im in need of a guy" lol and he supposed to be scatting? I cant find it anywhere on google.. so im going to bed... lol it late. maybe someone will have an answer for me tomorrow!
It does say that. lol
 

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Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber

Band: Pearl Jam
Song: Black

The real lyrics are:

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me...

What I thought the lyrics were: Well let's just say that I thought "were laid spread out before me" was something different. If you think about it, you'll get it.
I get that, specialy when," shes an empty canvas" Its rock, i never thought twice about it, funny. you go girl
 
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Originally Posted by okeefecl

My favorite misinterpreted lyric was done by my friend's husband. I'm not sure of the song title, but it's by Stevie Nicks.

Lyric-"Like a white-winged dove"
What he thought-"Like a one-winged dove"

He thought it was the stupidest song since it was about a bird that couldn't fly (actually, it's about a woman having a relationship with a younger man).
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
A "one-winged dove"!
Deb, loved your version of Stairway to heaven too!


Okay, everyone... all these replies are so funny! Keep them coming!
 
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Okay, this one gets five bags just because I couldn't even make up any words for some parts I heard.


Band: The Bangles
Song: Going Down to Liverpool (Love that song!
)

What I thought the lyrics were:
I said hey-ey... where you going with blah bla blahh blah-ah blah
I said hey-ey... with this clean and present plant

I said hey-ey... where you going you'll be fourteen in blah blah
I said hey-ey... with this clean and present plant

What the real lyrics are:

I said hey now... where you going with that load of nothing in your hand
I said hey now... through this clean and pleasant land

I said hey now... where you going with that UB-40 in your hand?
I said hey now... through this clean and pleasant land
 

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Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

Okay, this one gets five bags just because I couldn't even make up any words for some parts I heard.


Band: The Bangles
Song: Going Down to Liverpool (Love that song!
)

What I thought the lyrics were:
I said hey-ey... where you going with blah bla blahh blah-ah blah
I said hey-ey... with this clean and present plant

I said hey-ey... where you going you'll be fourteen in blah blah
I said hey-ey... with this clean and present plant

What the real lyrics are:

I said hey now... where you going with that load of nothing in your hand
I said hey now... through this clean and pleasant land

I said hey now... where you going with that UB-40 in your hand?
I said hey now... through this clean and pleasant land
 

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Originally Posted by sandra

Or in that one song by Jimi Hendrix where he goes exscuse me while I kiss the sky... And it is being heard as exscuse me while I kiss these guys....
My misquote of that song is close. I thought he said "excuse me while I kiss this guy".
 

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OK I got one:


I don't know who it's by (I'm forgetting right now for some reason)


But the lyrics are:

Oh Girl, I'd be in trouble if you left me now
Cause I don't know where to look for love
I just don't know how.

Lyrics as I knew it:


Oh Girl, I'm seeing double since you left me now
Cause I don't know where to look for love
I just don't know how.

 

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You know what's even funnier is the things my hubby and I have said to each other and misunderstood... okay, so we're 31 & 40, not exactly hearing aide ready so I can't imagine what we're going to be like later on. My excuse with my friends was that I am partially deaf in my right ear, but that was only admissable during conversations in the car when I was driving...

Somebody should start a thread about that! OMG... you should SEE the looks we give one another when we think something like "I hate clam shells" has come out of the other's mouth out of the blue!
 

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Hehehe - I'm just catching this thread, but it immediately reminds me of my nieces. Every time they heard the song and words- "Tequila" - they thought the words were "Bob Villa"

And of course how many years later (they're 19 now) they still gotta sing it that way --> just because!
 

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Hilarious thread!! I know there have been so many songs that I have done this with but I can't think of any right now.

I love the moment when you realize what the actual lyrics are and then wonder how you could possibly think your lyrics were right???


One thing that sort of fits this thread: a friend of my mom's once called Bare Naked Ladies the Blind Naked Ladies.


We then asked him if he called them that because that was the only type of "lady" he could get. hehehehe
 
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