OK - What are your favorite misunderstood lyrics?

[Lynnie]

Wrapped up like a douche.......

Another runner in the night.

:funn:

 

[jessifunn]

hold me closer tony danza

 

[Beach Runner]

Scuse me ... while I kiss this guy.

Also in the Bridget Jones movie when Bridge was teaching the proper lyrics of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" to a bunch of Thai women in jail.

 

[NoHall]

I think we covered that in the other thread...

I don't know if these were truly misunderstood, but I loved hearing someone sing John Denver's "Annie's Song:" You filled out my cennnnnnsus!

 

[Matt J]

The ants are my pants there blowing in the wind.

Louie Louie, the entire song, it's just the lyrical train wreck this thread needs.

 

[Will B]

They spread the peanut butter with a Samurai sword...

...should be "The Sheriff and his posse with the Samurai Sword"
China Grove - Doobie Bros.

 

[Blair]

Big Ole jet had a light on....

to the tune of..."Big Ole Jet Airliner".....

There's a bathroom on the right....

It is actually...There's a bad moon on the rise...

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Bakin carrot biscuts..to the tune taking care of business by BTO

 

[passin thru]

Mondegreens are a sort of aural malapropism. Instead of saying the wrong word, you hear the wrong word. The word mondegreen is generally used for misheard song lyrics, although technically it can apply to any speech. They are oronyms (homophones).


The term mondegreen was originally coined by author Sylvia Wright, and has come to be quite widely used. As a child, Wright heard the lyrics of The Bonny Earl of Murray (a Scottish ballad) as:

Ye highlands and ye lowlands
Oh where hae you been?
Thou hae slay the Earl of Murray
And Lady Mondegreen.

It eventually transpired that Lady Mondegreen existed only in the mind of Sylvia Wright, for the actual lyrics said that they "slay the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green."

 

[Will B]

This should clear a lot of things up...

With a Little Help From My Friends

An oldie but a goodie!