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rjoubert

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I remember years back when a coworker bought himself one of those daily tear-off desk calendars. This particular calendar had misinterpreted song lyrics for each day of the year. Here's one from the calendar..."Kiss this guy" instead of "Kiss the sky" by Jimi Hendrix.

I'm a big time Jewel fan. While at one of her concerts, while she was singing "Serve The Ego" one of my friends was signing along and seriously thought the song was "Save the Eagles."

This one is from an episode of "Friends." Phoebe was talking about a song that Elton John sang for "...that guy from Who's the Boss." She then started to sing..."Hold me close young Tony Danza." ("Tiny Dancer")

Can anyone think of other misinterpreted song lyrics?

 
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...Then there is the most-lyrically-misunderstood, "Top Mondegreened Song of All Time": Blinded By The Light, with lyrics/remakes by Bruce Springsteen, Manfred Mann, Electric Light Orchestra, et. al.

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I still crack up every time I hear Blinded By The Light. A buddy of mine was singing along to the song one day, "Wrapped up in a douche..." Same friend posed the serious question, "Why is Tim McGraw singing a song about Tony Danza?
 
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Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" > :)"Me ears are alight":)

TomCologne
 
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Blast from the 80s:

Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth

Pass the Dough Chip by ME :-(

~Thadeus
 
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You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille... with 400 children and a crop in the fields...."

<giggle>
 
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Dollie:

OMG... I remember my mom's best friend making a statement about "That's not even believable... 400 children... sheesh... horny fellow, isn't he?" THen I pointed out, "4 hungry children" and she blushed a DEEP red.

Thanks for reminding me of that one. :) That was just after that song came out...

(I'm showing my age again)



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Don't know the name of the song, but the Rolling Stones had one where lyrics went, in part, "Puerto Rican girls just dyin' to meet you!" and to this day i still hear the words as "...Don Ameche" .... sheesh
 
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Having taken voice lessons, I am still *amazed* how some songs can reach so high on the charts.

Things tha bother me...

"choo" is not a word. It's "Meet you" not "Meechoo". It's "Look at you" not "Look atchoo"

And put the BLOODY ENDS ON THE WORDS. Listen to music, and you'll hear what I mean. Listen to the words, and they don't end the words!

And everyone who is untrained does it... listen to "Silent Night" at christmas time, and you'll hear people singing:

Silen ni... holy ni... all is call... all is bri....



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Hi Greg..

Many, many voice teachers stress not pronouncing the consonants ( especially terminal ones) very strongly when singing..
They consider them harsh.

So it becomes
Silen Nigh instead...No 'T' sound ( or very faint)






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...better that than over emphasizing the last consonant so that it ends up as "SilenTAH NighTAH"

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Hi,
That would be Jack imitating Cher [wink]

( I watch too much television)




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Back "in the day" ... I heard the Buggles one-and-only (to my knowledge) hit and swore they sang:

"Video Kid In The Radio Store"



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turkbear said:
Many, many voice teachers stress not pronouncing the consonants ( especially terminal ones) very strongly when singing..
Click to expand...

Except for the guy that coached the choir in the Stones' "You Can'T Always GeT WhaT You WanT".
 
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There was a very short-lived tv show which dealt with the 'mondegreens', and for each one they'd do a little skit describing the misheard lyrics. For example, in Stairway To Heaven, the lyrics

"And if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last", was misheard as

"And if you listen very hard, the jew will bother you a lot".

The skit had a guy in a bar intently listening to a jukebox while a hasidic jew was tapping his shoulder, meddling with him, etc.
--Jim



 
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Many, many voice teachers stress not pronouncing the consonants ( especially terminal ones) very strongly when singing..
They consider them harsh.
Click to expand...

Funny... my voice instructor told me to OVER ANNUNCIATE when I'm practicing, so that when I performed, they would still be heard (just not over-annunciated)



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Makes me wonder what Bob Dylan's music teacher told him...
 
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Funny thing about Blinded By The Light: That is the only song, ever, where having Bruce Springsteen sing a song made the lyrics more coherent.

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gbaughma,

From the Pass The Dutchie link:
The lyrics are really a faux pas in etiquette. When passing a cooking pot (or anything else on the table), you pass it to your right, not your left. You can pass to your immediate left only if the item requested is closest to you. (thanks, Patrick - Tallapoosa, GA)
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I don't think that guy really gets the gist of the song....

And as to your assertion that, "'Choo' is not a word", I guess you aren't familiar with Stickwitu from The Pussycat Dolls? The singer utters the words "I'm gon' stick witchoo" about a thousand times. *Shiver*

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