Song lyrics you deliberately sing wrong

[jackdavinci]

There's a bunch where I'll change the subject or object to the more personally appropriate gender.

I modified the lyrics of Indigo Girl's Rick n Roll Heavens Gate to be about my Dad's passing.

Originally Posted by Electric Warrior

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More.

It's "one foot in sea one on shore" but I always sing "one verdant sea, one on shore".

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

Originally Posted by Eve

Oh, you just reminded me:

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Get a ho! Get a ho! Get a ho!

Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
But your thighs are so delightful,...

[VunderBob]

Heart's Heartless:

Heartless, hardass...

[Doug K.]

Later on, we'll perspire as we roast by the fire.
To face, so afraid, the bills left unpaid.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

[notfrommensa]

"Dirty Deeds, and they're done with Sheep"

[Sicks Ate]

I shouldn't admit this, but in 'Gimme Three Steps':

Wait a minute mister,
I didn't even fist her.

[Leaffan]

And be a Juice Box Hero got stars in his eyes.

ETA: Thanks to my son who thought those were the lyrics, since he'd never heard of a jukebox before.

[Hal Briston]

His name was Rico
He was a douchebag...

[sqweels]

Men Without Hats:
You can dance
You can dance
Everyone come in your pants

Paul Simon:
Who do...
Who do you think you're foolin'
I'm a constipated man

The Ganja Boat Song:
Work all night on a line of coke (daylight come mon me wan get stoned)
Been so long since I had a toke (daylight come mon me wan get stoned)

Come mista tally mon tally mary-juana
Come mista tally mon fill my boat with ganja
Load six bales, seven bales, eight bales, TON! (daylight come mon me wan get stoned)

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

Originally Posted by california jobcase

strangers in the night
exchanging rubbers
this one is too tight
could be I'll find another

Don't forget the last lines...

This one is too loose
It could fit a MOOOOOOOOOSE!!

[VunderBob]

John Mellencamp: "I need a rubber that won't make me babies..."

Dr. Hook's Alice:

"24 years just waiting for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get inside her pants
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice"

[Súil Dubh]

Originally Posted by Patch

Master of Puppets by Metallica. I keep singing it Master of Muppets.

I had a friend who used to sing it as "Pastor of Muppets".

He had a whole performance that he'd do for the song. He'd play air guitar along with the solos, make goofy faces, and replace random lines with his own.

The only one I remember specifically is when the "...laughing at my cries!" line came up, he'd shout out "BURGER, SHAKE, AND FRIES!".

Err... it was funny at the time.

[psycat90]

Originally Posted by medstar

Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance", it comes out as "Bathrobe Dance".

Mine is also Gaga's Bad Romance.


I have to sing "I don't wanna be friends" as "I don't wanna be French" right before she sings a couple of verses in French.

[GreedySmurf]

Classic old version of AC/DC,

It's a long way to the shop if you want a Sausage Roll

[Emtar KronJonDerSohn]

Carry me my pelican
There'll be treats when you are done
Lay your weary arms to rest
don't you fly no more.

[Satellite^Guy]

Take me down to the Parasite City
Where the girls are green and the grass tastes shitty
Oh won't you please take me home, yeaaah

[gwendee]

Last night I slept with Scott Baio
(Madonna's La Isla Bonita)

[elfkin477]

Longwave "Satellites"

You're looking for ass
Looking for satellites across the great divine...

Slam "Lifetimes"

Girl you know I won't forget
All of those times we spent
No-one said that I'd last
And girl I won't forget your ass...


Listen to them and tell me that ass doesn't fit at least as well as the real lyrics

[Peanuthead]

Redbone's Come And Get Your Love ends with the repeated line:

Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love now.

to which I sing:

Gotta take a leak, gotta take a leak, gotta take a leak now.

It fits perfectly.

[Hail Ants]

I think this one may be far from widespread but-

In the Rush song Freewill, instead of "path that's clear" I always sing (and hear):

♫ I will choose a bathysphere ♫

I know it makes absolutely no sense, but that's what my brain thought it heard way back when and it stuck!

[Chanteuse]

It's just a theme song, but I always sub in these lyrics to The Golden Girls theme:

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
You would see the biggest tits belong to me...

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

Originally Posted by limegreen

WHAT Those aren't the real words? I just googled it, and I've been singing it wrong all these years!!

'Ccording to this, those are the real lyrics. Or am I getting whooshed here?

[Jack Crazyquilt]

Billy Joel's Don't Ask Me Why

"All the servants in your new hotel
Blow their noses on your feet."

Also, add me to the list of people who sing Weird Al lyrics while the original song is playing.

[Dendarii Dame]

Originally Posted by Dendarii Dame

Far more obscurely, there's a novelty Christmas song sung in a Swedish accent called, "Oh, I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas". Anyone remember a Hanna-Barbera cartoon called Journey to the Center of the Earth? The villain was Swedish, and according to the narrator, had a "brute-like servant, Torg." So whenever we hear the song, my husband and I sing,
"Oh, I yust go nuts at Christmas/With my brute-like servant, Torg..."

Sorry, I have to fix this and I missed the edit window. It should be, "Oh, I yust go nuts at the center of the earth/With my brute-like servant, Torg..."

[Minnie Luna]

When it first came out, I watched this video on Youtube for Pearl Jam's Yellow Ledbetter.

"I don't want a whale in a box or a bag,
Ah yeeeeeaaaaaah
Can you see dems?
Out on the porch
Potato wave
I see dem
Brown the runway"

[doverpro]

Might as well face it, you're a dick head in love.

[Clothahump]

Originally Posted by Odaran09

Anything that has been done Weird Al. I cannot hear the original without the parody version rattling around in my head. I usually end up singing the Al version loudly over the original one.

Oh, ghods, yes.

"How come you're such a fussy young man?
Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisen Bran?"

[11811]

Originally Posted by Doug K.

Later on, we'll perspire as we roast by the fire.
To face, so afraid, the bills left unpaid.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

That's "walking wearing women's underwear"

[Aeris]

Originally Posted by limegreen

My children have corrupted 'Secret Agent Man' into 'She's an Asian Man' which completely cracks me up now when I hear that song.

Ha! My mom is the one that started my on that. Except we sing 'Secret Asian Man'.

But I came on here to say...

Taylor Swift-Our Song hate her

"When we're on the phone and you talk real low cause it's late and your momma don't know"

Low makes so much more sense than slow!

[Vinyl Turnip]

When the poopy's over
When the poopy's over, yeah
When the poopy's over
Turn out the light
Turn out the light
Turn out the light...

Well the poopy is your special friend
Ass on fire as it distends
Poopy is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end!

[Annie-Xmas]

Originally Posted by Rhiannon8404

Are you reeling in the years?
Stowin' away the time?
Are you gathering up the cheese?
Have you had enough wine?

Are you living in the east?
Strolling away the time?
Are you gathering up the years?
Do you have a diamond mine?

[FalconFinder]

Originally Posted by Dendarii Dame

"But there's a warm wind blowing the stars around/And I'd really love to see you tonight..."

Holy Crap! Until this, I thought those were the lyrics!

Well, I probably won't stop singing it that way...

[FalconFinder]

Originally Posted by limegreen

WHAT Those aren't the real words? I just googled it, and I've been singing it wrong all these years!!

Don't feel bad, I just learned this too! LOL

[FalconFinder]

Originally Posted by pseudotriton ruber ruber

'Ccording to this, those are the real lyrics. Or am I getting whooshed here?

A couple of lyrics sites have it the other way, but after getting thoroughly confused, I went and listened to the song. It is "blowing the stars around".

I confirmed this by watching the video where Dan Seals (England Dan) does a country version of this song and it's much more pronounced.

*whew*

[TonySinclair]

An oldie, "Johnny Angel":

Other fellas call me up for a date,
But I just sit and wait,
I'd rather masturbate.

[TonySinclair]

And my favorite when I'm in a racist mood:

R-E-S-P-E-C-K!

[bup]

"All...we...do-ooo...
crumbles to the ground and hurts our little feet..."

[dnooman]

From "One" by Metallica:

The lyric is "Tied to machines that make me be", I always sing "Tied to machines that make me pee".

One of those stupid-ass things you find funny in High School, that for some reason is still worth a chuckle today.

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by Hail Ants

I think this one may be far from widespread but-

In the Rush song Freewill, instead of "path that's clear" I always sing (and hear):

♫ I will choose a bathysphere ♫

I know it makes absolutely no sense, but that's what my brain thought it heard way back when and it stuck!

There actually is a song about a Bathysphere, though. It's by Smog.

[VOW]

"What are the words to La Bamba?"


~VOW

[Phnord Prephect]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Ha! My mom is the one that started my on that. Except we sing 'Secret Asian Man'.

Even better, "Sequined Asian Man." I just like the visual that one gives me.

[Takei] Oh My![/Takei]

[sco3tt]

Alternative radio in the 90s was a good source for these.

The opening lines of "Santa Monica" by Everclear:

I am still living with your goat
Lonely and dreaming of a wet coat

And Collective Soul's "The World I Know" was always "The One-Eyed Gnome" to me.

[panache45]

The Beatles' "The girl with colitis goes by."

Sondheim's "Not a Dago Spy" (Not a Day Goes By)

And of course the immortal Marmoset Song:
"Marmoset, there'll be days like this; there'll be days like this, my marmoset."

[BigT]

I probably do it all the time with any song I learn to play on keyboard first, and haven't heard or sang in a while. But that's the one I want to bring up.

There this old Christian song, done in a Gaither style, called "Let the Hallelujahs Roll." It's chorus begins, "Hallelujah feels the same in every language/ It starts the doorbells ringing in your soul." No one I know has any idea why it is "doorbells." And so my old church always sang "joy bells" instead.

[Rucksinator]

"You! You got what I need!
And you say he's just a friend,
but you're always fucking him!"

One of my co-workers would sing the beginning of the Three's Company theme "come and lick on my balls."
To which I'd respond "Who licked my ball sack!? (Who, who,who, who, who)"

[cjepson]

All in all, you're just another dick in the mall.

[manila]

You've painted up your tits and curled and combed your pubic hair.
Ruby are you constipated? here just eat this pear.

Apologies to Kenny Rogers... nah not really!

[sahirrnee]

Sheryl Crowe

"all i want to do is hurt someone"

[Son of a Rich]

When, at work, Purple Haze would play, I'd sing: 'scuse me while you kiss my ass.

[Sicks Ate]

Originally Posted by Son of a Rich

When, at work, Purple Haze would play, I'd sing: 'scuse me while you kiss my ass.

User name reminded me of another favorite, from 'Hair of the Dog':

Now you're messin with a vaginal itch.