# Another Misheard Song Lyrics Thread. OR... Dogs DON'T say "Goodnight". **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864 "2004-10-12T20:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/41 "2004-10-13T18:28:24Z")
> [@Krys92gp](#): > > One that I’ve been known for is Stevie Nick’s “Edge of Seventeen”, in which I hear: > > _Just like the one-winged dove > Sings a song, sounds like she’s singin_ > > Appearantly it’s a _white_ winged dove… Yep, me too. Marshall Tucker Band’s “Heard it in a love song”. I thought was… _“Purty little love song”_. My sister had to pull the car over because she was laughing so hard. :rolleyes: Chris Isaak’s “I Believe”. I knew the title, but I though the chorus was _“Ivy League, Ivy League, Ivy League”_ ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/42 "2004-10-13T18:31:37Z")
## What I _thought_ Elton John’s “Yellow Brick Road” were… ## So goodbye yellow brick road With a dog star up high on me how You can’t plant me in a henhouse I’m going back up and how Up to the wallyworld out in the woods Humping the honey back trowel (my brain really doesn’t make sense on this one) What I finally googled them as…I’ll be damned, but I think Elton/Taupin’s lyrics are even more muddled than my own… So goodbye yellow brick road Where the dogs of society howl You can’t plant me in your penthouse I’m going back to my plough Back to the howling old owl in the woods Hunting the horny back toad ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/43 "2004-10-13T18:47:15Z")
My ex always thought the Abba song lyrics were: “Sleeping Willie is your brother” (Treat him well, he is your brother) I always thought (don’t ask me why) that the Paul Simon lyrics for “The Boxer” were: “…in the quiet of a railway station, lettuce skins.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/44 "2004-10-13T18:58:12Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > My favorite version of this song was my Dad’s: “I got no job, but I’m an opera fan, and you’re never gonna keep the town.” Uh-HUH. That one gets my vote for the best so far, just for the sheer WTF-ness of it. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/45 "2004-10-13T19:17:29Z")
**Draelin** and **ShibbOleth** - My father thanks you. I think. For the record, he also screws up the “usual suspects,” too. I might have been in my teens before I heard the real words to “there’s a bathroom on the right” and “big old Jed had a light on” and “'cuse me while I kiss this guy,” so you can imagine that I thought he was just kidding when he said that he speaks “of the pompatus of love.” (Although sometimes he did say “elephant,” just to make us laugh.) ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/46 "2004-10-13T19:18:59Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > **Elfbabe** once thought that this line from Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” was: > my love for you will still be strong _stronger than poison, stronger than gum_. Hey, _I_ was going to post that! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/47 "2004-10-13T19:25:40Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > My favorite version of this song was my Dad’s: “I got no job, but I’m an opera fan, and you’re never gonna keep the town.” Uh-HUH. Obviously, a song about some opera fans with plenty of time on their hands, pissed off at their enemies for invading and occupying some town. They are getting organized to take it back and singing this ferocious song. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/48 "2004-10-13T19:27:39Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I always heard “She’s so funky, eh?” > > Hey, it’s _almost_ Canadian, although it makes no damned sense. > > As for the French, _Jeux sans fron-ti-ères_, right? > > And I’ve always sung “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”, even though I know what the lyrics are. I also remember when the song Tub Thumping first came out, I had no freakin’ clue what they were saying. Now that I know, I can’t remember what I’d thought it was before. For the chorus of this Tubthumping, I thought was “I get no down” which isn’t too far off, but makes about zero sense (except, I think I heard it in a football commercial once, which might explain it) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/49 "2004-10-13T19:30:01Z")
Reportedly, as a child, I would sing the words of the hymn ‘Up from the grave He arose…’ as ‘Up from the gravy with a rose’. So, apparently, braise the Messiah with a light meat broth, garnish optional, for 72 hours or until resurrected. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/50 "2004-10-13T19:30:14Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Marshall Tucker Band’s “Heard it in a love song”. I thought was… _“Purty little love song”_. Huh, and until I read your post, that’s what I thought it was, too. :o ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/51 "2004-10-13T19:47:34Z")
> [@elfbabe](#): > > Hey, _I_ was going to post that! I thought you might still be stuck in the flying boobage thread. I’d wondered where all our play-doh went! You can tell them about my Beatles “Paperback Writer” one if you want. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/52 "2004-10-13T19:48:01Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > Huh, and until I read your post, that’s what I thought it was, too. :o Me three! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/53 "2004-10-13T20:27:04Z")
Someone just mentioned _99 Red Balloons_ in an MPSIMS thread about not knowing the lyrics, so I finally looked to see what the real English lyrics are. My version: You and I and a little dachsund Bought a bag of balloons when the money was gone Actual lyrics: You and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got Rock me, I’m a Danish! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/54 "2004-10-13T20:29:48Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Reportedly, as a child, I would sing the words of the hymn ‘Up from the grave He arose…’ as ‘Up from the gravy with a rose’. > > So, apparently, braise the Messiah with a light meat broth, garnish optional, for 72 hours or until resurrected. You just made my whole day 😃 Possible, my whole week. ---
**Author:** ![singersargent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@singersargent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singersargent)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/55 "2004-10-13T20:35:37Z")
Took years to be set straight that Prince’s song was not, “This is what it sounds like when _dogs_ cry…” ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/56 "2004-10-13T21:08:48Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > You just made my whole day 😃 Possible, my whole week. I live to serve. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/57 "2004-10-13T21:10:15Z")
For many years I sang this verse from the Dire Straits “I Want My MTV” song (is that the title?): “You (We?) got yer Flintstone microwave oven.” I think somebody here tipped me off that it was “to install.” Some others that I’ve never bothered to look up the real words for: From “Cars” by Gary Numan: “It gives me staple for a dice in cars.” From “Down On Me” by Big Brother and The Holding Company: “Lipstick, everybody in the whole wide world…” A couple from “Rocket Man” by Elton John: “And there’s no one there to raise them, if you dig” (hell, that one may be right) “Burning out the fuse to Heaven alone” From “Disturbance At The Herron House” by R. E. M.: “C\*nts and grunts and hirelings.” (\*rhymes with grunts) In fact, just about all lyrics to all R. E. M. songs are misheard by most everybody, I would imagine. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/58 "2004-10-13T21:10:18Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I live to serve. 🙂 The problem is, you’re serving Jesus in a gravy boat. _Everyone_ knows Jesus is best served in a trifle dish. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/59 "2004-10-13T21:14:48Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > The problem is, you’re serving Jesus in a gravy boat. > > _Everyone_ knows Jesus is best served in a trifle dish. Well, I never said I was a perfect Host. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864/60 "2004-10-13T21:16:11Z")
> [@Sir Rhosis](#): > > For many years I sang this verse from the Dire Straits “I Want My MTV” song (is that the title?) “Money For Nothing.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-misheard-song-lyrics-thread-or-dogs-dont-say-goodnight/268864.md?page=4)