# Babel Fish Translator Lyric Game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055 "2007-05-30T13:12:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/1 "2007-05-30T13:12:53Z")
Type some well-known lyrics into [Babel Fish](http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr). Translate them into another language of choice, and then translate them back to English. Paste your results here and we get to guess the song.
I’ll go first. An easy one from English to Spanish and back again.
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> What you would think if you sang outside consonancia, you you would be stopped for above and walks towards outside in me. Présteme its ears and I will sing a song to him, and I will try not to sing outside key. Oh I happens with one little aid of my friends,
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/2 "2007-05-30T13:16:13Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan]
Type some well-known lyrics into [Babel Fish](http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr). Translate them into another language of choice, and then translate them back to English. Paste your results here and we get to guess the song.
I’ll go first. An easy one from English to Spanish and back again.
[/QUOTE]
A Little Help From My Friends (or whatever the real title of the Beatles’ song is).
I’ll post mine shortly.
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### Author:  [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/3 "2007-05-30T13:17:00Z")
Since Zeldar answered the above while I was getting the below lyric, I’ll just add the lyric:
Love, love me to do. They know I love you, I are always applicable, then fallen, to do dear to me. Whoa, love me to do.
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/4 "2007-05-30T13:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=Hugh Jass]
Since Zeldar answered the above while I was getting the below lyric, I’ll just add the lyric:
Love, love me to do. They know I love you, I are always applicable, then fallen, to do dear to me. Whoa, love me to do.
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Beatles’ “Love Me Do”
How about this:
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> The last thing that I remember, I functioned for the door I had to again find the passage to the place I were before ’ slacken, ’ said the man of night, ’ we are programmed to receive. You can control when you like, but you can never not leave!’
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/5 "2007-05-30T13:23:32Z")
Hotel California.
English to French to German to French to Spanish to English. It held up remarkably well for all that:
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> When he was a young boy, my father took me in the city, to see a volume going. He has it says transfers to them? Its Daemonen? And very skeptical he? The plans that did them?
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/6 "2007-05-30T13:25:11Z")
English to Korean to English:
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> It went out and when listening to the fact that my, bulldog will bark in the corner me it was standing.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/7 "2007-05-30T13:25:22Z")
Continuing the theme then:
English\>Dutch\>English
It has been the night of a hard day, and I have worked as a dog
It the night of a hard day have been, I as a logbook must sleep
But when I get house to you I find the things that you me will know feeling fix
You the work of I already day to bring you money you to solicit to buy
And it is worth it only hear you says you gonna gives me this way everything
Why I love to house to come cause are when I you get only
You weet I o.k. feel
When I seem be to house everything correctly
To house holding permanently feel me be
It has been the night of a hard day, and I have worked as a dog
It the night of a hard day have been, I as a logbook must sleep
But when I get house to you I find the things that you me will fix feeling
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/8 "2007-05-30T13:29:00Z")
Ha! A Hard Day’s Night, obviously. Still thinking about the other two…
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/9 "2007-05-30T13:30:34Z")
**Hentor** ’s second one is Hotel California
ETA: Oops, I see someone already got that.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/10 "2007-05-30T13:36:24Z")
go. . .
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> Who runs the quicky
> ruined launches to a bricky
> ruined their floors are sticking
> ruined
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/11 "2007-05-30T13:38:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Continuing the theme then:
English\>Dutch\>English
It has been the night of a hard day, and I have worked as a dog
It the night of a hard day have been, I as a logbook must sleep
But when I get house to you I find the things that you me will know feeling fix
You the work of I already day to bring you money you to solicit to buy
And it is worth it only hear you says you gonna gives me this way everything
Why I love to house to come cause are when I you get only
You weet I o.k. feel
When I seem be to house everything correctly
To house holding permanently feel me be
It has been the night of a hard day, and I have worked as a dog
It the night of a hard day have been, I as a logbook must sleep
But when I get house to you I find the things that you me will fix feeling
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Hard Day’s Night.
From English to Japanese and back again:
That leads to your door, it is long and the road of the hoist. Before raise the long, I who long one time here was left. I who here stand do not have to be left. Lead me to your door.
Just to break the mold:
English\>German\>French\>English
cause those with loves, you gave that we were not to leave formed enough, so that you, are opened broad No and each time if you speak, their name it can, you declared me that you would hold me, until you die, until you die however, you are still in an alive way But calmly alive you’ Re
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### Author:  [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/12 "2007-05-30T13:41:21Z")
Ludovic: The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance?
Biggirl #1 The Long And Winding Road by the Beatles?
Biggirl #2 I have no idea.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/13 "2007-05-30T13:42:59Z")
Yes, **Welcome to the Black Parade**.
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### Author:  [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/14 "2007-05-30T13:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
English to French to German to French to Spanish to English. It held up remarkably well for all that:
When he was a young boy, my father took me in the city, to see a volume going. He has it says transfers to them? Its Daemonen? And very skeptical he? The plans that did them?
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My Chemical Romance “The Black Parade.”
Going back into more classic music, I got a surprisingly faithful translation out of English\>French\>German\>English:
_It is this feeling within somewhat strange. I am not one those, which can hide themselves easily. I do not have much money, but, if I would buy I a large house, where we could live all two._
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### Author:  [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/15 "2007-05-30T13:45:31Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
Just to break the mold:
English\>German\>French\>English
cause those with loves, you gave that we were not to leave formed enough, so that you, are opened broad No and each time if you speak, their name it can, you declared me that you would hold me, until you die, until you die however, you are still in an alive way But calmly alive you’ Re
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Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/16 "2007-05-30T13:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead]
My Chemical Romance “The Black Parade.”
Going back into more classic music, I got a surprisingly faithful translation out of English\>French\>German\>English:
_It is this feeling within somewhat strange. I am not one those, which can hide themselves easily. I do not have much money, but, if I would buy I a large house, where we could live all two._
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Your Song - Reggie Dwight, or AKA Elton John
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### Author:  [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/17 "2007-05-30T13:47:13Z")
“The large wheels keep at twisting transport me house to see songs concerning the country of the south my relatives singing I Alabamy once again miss and I am a sin, yes think.”
English - Dutch - French - Greek - Dutch - English
Oddly, when I selected Greek to English it put it in Dutch.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/18 "2007-05-30T13:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle]
“The large wheels keep at twisting transport me house to see songs concerning the country of the south my relatives singing I Alabamy once again miss and I am a sin, yes think.”
English - Dutch - French - Greek - Dutch - English
Oddly, when I selected Greek to English it put it in Dutch.
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Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?)
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/19 "2007-05-30T13:51:43Z")
Yeup to both of mine.
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### Author:  [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/20 "2007-05-30T13:52:33Z")
Leaffan - yes.
It is a good girl, likes their Jesus love mummy, and America likewise is a good girl, ’ the horses pazzeschi boyfriend of love of Elvis of period and its even.
English - Italian - French - German - English
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