La Bamba and other songs to be embarrassed about

[Morgenstern]

The Bee Gees - More Than a Woman…

sounds like

bald headed woman
more than a woman to me
bald headed woman
more than a woman to meeeee.

[Zeldar]

@Morgenstern

The Bee Gees - More Than a Woman…

sounds like

bald headed woman
more than a woman to me
bald headed woman
more than a woman to meeeee.

Exactly! There are so many songs like that now. Once the crooners (who could and would enunciate what they were singing) went out of fashion, what you’re left with is Mystery Land in terms of what’s being sung. Drown that out with Threshold Of Pain background and you’re helpless without liner notes.

Have you noticed how often the online lyrics contain mondegreens of their own?

I prefer instrumentals!

[Soylent_Juicy]

Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart

I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can

Watch you even think your story lines… (Watch you weave then breathe your story lines)

Don’t twist the blade on the sky in shades… (Don’t switch the blade on the guy in shades)

Don’t mess around with the sky in shades… (Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades)

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@TheChileanBlob

Until just this week, I thought the bolded was “Got my virginity.” I heard it in the car the other day and was like “WTF is he saying anyway?” and looked it up.

I swear I once saw published sheet music for the *Sheer Heart Attack *album that had the line printed as “Gunpowder, jug o’ Teen.”

(BTW, don’t Google “jug o’ Teen” at work.)

[Chefguy]

@Morgenstern

The Bee Gees - More Than a Woman…

sounds like

bald headed woman
more than a woman to me
bald headed woman
more than a woman to meeeee.

Shit, another one. I’m getting a concussion. :smack:

[Malthus]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

(BTW, don’t Google “jug o’ Teen” at work.)

Now I need a new monitor.

[kaylasdad99]

@Snowboarder_Bo

And I can’t remember which Dan Fogleberg song it was, but she was sure that some lady had married an army tent that kept her warm at night. To be fair, she thought this made sense because Private Benjamin was a big hit at the time so “woman in the army” movie and “woman in the army” song somehow seemed coherent and likely to her.

JFTR, it was Another Old Lang Syne.

And the verse goes:

She said she’d married her an architect
Who kept her warm and safe and dry
She would have liked to say she loved the man
But she didn’t like to lie.

In other news, my daughter was binge-watching something or other on Netflix last week, and the song Do the Lucky Lady came on. And she started singing along with it. But (get this!) she was singing “Dude look like a lady!”

Ha! As if!

Then I realized that she had the closed captioning on.

Oops.

[kaylasdad99]

@Morgenstern

The Bee Gees - More Than a Woman…

sounds like

bald headed woman
more than a woman to me
bald headed woman
more than a woman to meeeee.

Four-letter woman…

Umm, “Aunt?”

Got an eraser I can borrow?

[Zeldar]

@kaylasdad99

Four-letter woman…

Umm, “Aunt?”

Got an eraser I can borrow?

I used that same joke earlier this week! Great minds?

[gigi]

@Soylent_Juicy

Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart

I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can

Watch you even think your story lines… (Watch you weave then breathe your story lines)

Don’t twist the blade on the sky in shades… (Don’t switch the blade on the guy in shades)

Don’t mess around with the sky in shades… (Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades)

I thought it was “Don’t <whatever whatever> the guy in shades of noir”. It kind of made sense.

[China_Guy]

My wife, a non native English speaker, thought Steppenwolf’s big hit was “Born in the Wild”

And apparently, Hendrix’s big line was “scuse me, while I kiss this guy”. This website is dedicated to misheard lyrics, but the Hendrix “kiss this guy” story and video is pretty awesome: The story of Jimi Page and "Kiss This Guy"

Or for La Bamba, it’s Search Results For The Archive of Misheard Song Lyrics