misheard lyrics

I was just listening to "Go" on CBC radio and they had a contest about the best "mondogreens" (misheard song lyrics). Some of the were hilarious. The winner was:

Crazy little Owls    instead of    Raise a little Hell

My favourite is courtesy of a friend who loved the eighties hit "Lies, Lies, Lies"; she used to sing (at the top of her lungs I might add) "Life-sized lice Yeah, Life-sized lice Yeah" lol

What's your favourite mondogreen?

I was in a bar when I was just barely old enough to be in a bar and they were playing this U2 song - the lyrics were:

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!

I was singing - at the top of my lungs:

I woke up this morning and I shot myself a deer!  I got busted too!

Another one heard by a band person I know: Instead of Smoke on the water a bar patron sang

Slow walking Walter, the fire engine guy!!  :)

Hahaha has anyone heard the song by Gwen Stefani called "Hollaback Girl"? Well the music video was on and my mom started to sing along, but instead of singing "I ain't no holla back girl" she sang "I ain't no Harlem Black girl" I started busting out laughing and ask her if she really just sung that, and she was like "oh... well she isn't!" ahhahaha

Tkae Care.

Just sitting here laughing!

my favorite is this one: 

my sister used to sing these lyrics to the song "don't be cruel":

Don't play pool.. oh oh oh.. with a ball that's blue!

hand on bible swear to god!  now i can't ever ever hear that song without laughing hysterically!

Ok I can think of a few....

Metalica- Enter Sandman 
Correct Lyrics - Exit light, enter night, take my hand, We're off to never never land!
'New' Lyrics - Extra night, Ultra light, take my hand, We're off to build a big snowman!


Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
'New' Lyrics - One eyed girl


Carly Simon - Stuff that Dreams are Made of
'New' Lyrics - Stuff those green tomatoes

Ozzy Osborn  - Ironman
...works for any verse...
'New Lyrics' - I am running man!  I can run faster than you can!


John Mellencamp - Authority song
Correct Lyrics - I fight authority, authority always wins
'New' Lyrics - When I find a 4leaf clover it always wilts.

Do you remember the song "I believe in Miracles?" (where ya from, you sexy thing...)

My neice was running around the house just the other day singing : I Believe in Milk- oh!

Sooo cute.

I think it was Chicago who sang "What kind of Man would I be", right?
I swear to god, for the first few times I heard it, I THOUGHT he was singing 'What kind of Campbells are we." I didn't get it :)

Also.. psst.. Iron Man wasn't Ozzy :) That was Black Sabbath :)

Mine was a country western song.  I can't remembe the guys name that sang this song.  He was young and had fought cancer and was doing really good.  They lyrics

"If she knows she's killing me you couldn't look at her and tell"

I thought he was saying "Itchy nose is killing me you couldn't look at her and tell"  I finally asked my girlfriend why and itchy nose was killing him and why would she care if it was?  She about died laughing.

Haha, best one ever... my sister told me she heard this great song called "Tony Danza."

"Hold me closer, Tony Danzaaaa... count the headlights on the highway..."

(That's Elton John's "Tiny dancer," in case you don't know!)

Lanicita, my boyfriend always sings the same words!  He knows they're wrong, but he always likes to make up his own stupid words to songs (i.e. "Sweet emulsion" instead of Sweet Emotion).  I just can't believe there's two people in this world who'd sing Tony Danza to Tiny Dancer!  I'll have to tell him. Haha!

I know a girl who thought the Bee Gees - More Than a Woman was

4 legged woman....

oh nooo..

for a while when i was 17 and used to go clubbing with my gay friend Daniel i used to see 'topless mother nature' intead of 'godbless mother nature' when 'its raining men came on.. the shame

Here is one I thought was right until I recently belted it out at the top of my lungs and hubby nearly fell over laughing
 That song thats like "Take me down to the paradise city"
I thought it went "Take me down to that very nice city"

INXS ---"suicide blonde"

I overheard someone singing (no not me, I swear....or was it?)

"Super salad bar"

LOLing "I ain't no harlem black girl" 

This is CCR Bad Moon Rising as I used to sing it - but didn't we all? Yeah?

I see a bad moon rising.

I see trouble on the way...

Don't go out tonight.

It's bound to take some time.

There's a bathroom on the right.

This is a remake that my husband came up with for Paradise City

"Take me down to the south of Mclenny"

'We will we will rock you"

"we will, we will SLAP you"

And lose2win, Dont feel bad, I thought it was "very last city"

My daughter likes that song, I dont know the name but it goes:

"Shes bittersweet, she knocks me off of my feet"

daughter sings it "Shes berry sweet, she loves me" 4 years old.

A long long time ago, there was a song out that went "such a freak" I thought it was saying "twa twa tweet!"

I know I'm a lot late on this but  when I was little hot child in the city nick gilder

 it goes hot child in the city running wild and looking pretty

i thought it said

hot child in the ceiling flying arround looking pretty.

 I did the itchy nose is killing me thing to lol. they never let me live it down nither.

Of course, there is the classic one, that I fell victim to when I was a kid....

-'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy-

Blinded by the light.

dressed up like a douche, another loner in the night.

 

I still don't know what he's saying.

*Google*

Ohhhhhhhhh

 

 

I got that one too, I thought it was "wrapped up like a douche". It's "revved up like a deuce" not that that makes any sense either.