# Lyrics you insist on singing wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352 "2022-01-07T02:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/81 "2022-01-14T14:52:22Z")
Sheryl Crow’s _Easy_. I have two different versions. We said this summer we’d go down to Cancun, but **COVID-19** makes that kind of hard to do. The second version I imagine being sung by Ted Cruz. We said this winter we’d go down to Cancun, and the big freeze makes that kind of easy to do. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/82 "2022-01-14T15:00:52Z")
One ton of mierda Juaquin ate one ton of mierda One ton of mierda! Juaquin ate one ton of mierda… ---
**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:** [January 14, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/83 "2022-01-14T15:33:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > With apologies to Sammy Davis, Jr… > > I gotta go pee! > I gotta go pee! Damn, I’ve been singing that too, for the last few years. Damned prostate . . . ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/84 "2022-01-14T16:26:44Z")
I’m adopting this. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/85 "2022-01-14T22:52:04Z")
Original: It’s a miracle A true blue spectacle A miracle come true Revised It’s a miracle A true blue testicle A miracle come true Original: You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille With four hungry children and a crop in the field Revised: You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel With four hundred children and a’coppin’ a feel Original: He don’t love you (and he never will) like I love you Revised: He don’t love you (and he can go to hell) like I love you And of course, the original was Blinded by the light; revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/86 "2022-01-14T23:22:08Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > It’s a miracle That reminds me (and I believe I posted it in the YOUR mis-heard lyrics thread). When I was a kid there was a song they played all the time called ‘You Sexy Thing’. Being a kid, with an AM radio, I heard the lyrics as, and still think of them as: I believe in Milk-Os It’s a kind of law You sense the pain… (The actual lyrics are: I believe in miracles / Since you came along / you sexy thing) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/87 "2022-01-15T04:19:56Z")
Two from my childhood: I doubt that it was a hit in the US and anybody of you knows the song, but “Zabadak” was a one hit wonder by the Saragossa Band in Germany in the late seventies. We always used to sing it as “Schlabbersack”, which roughly means wiggly scrotum. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fNQV0mboKg8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHeAoACiAKKAgwIABABGHIgaygUMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDwv8pKYhJe-1H52v0nriUtXj3-Uw "Saragossa Band - Zabadak") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQV0mboKg8) The other is Boney M’s Rasputin (which more people will know), in which we sang instead of Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen Ra-Ra-Rasputin, scheißen ohne abzuziehen which means Ra-Ra-Rasputin, shitting without flushing Yeah, we were silly as children. Of course I still sing them that way when they are played on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/88 "2022-01-15T17:34:37Z")
One just came up in rotation and I started singing it wrong before I even remembered this thread Strangers, racin’ Up and down the boulevard Their tires Turnin’ in the night Streetlights turn green Hopin’ just to find some traction Runnin’ somewhere in the night Bruce’s got nuttin’ on Journey for car songs. 🙂 (but yet, I insist on calling the song “Don’t Stop Breeding”. go figure) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/89 "2022-01-16T16:26:18Z")
♬ At the Buca Buca di Beppo Pinocchio lied to Geppetto And his nose grew A give-away clue…! If he tells another lie He’ll put out someone’s eye At the Buca Buca di Beppo… ♬ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/90 "2022-01-17T06:09:02Z")
Neat. I’ve always done this part: Music and pacifism Always ran counter to fascism at the Cooo-paaaa ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/91 "2022-01-17T09:06:27Z")
In _One Week_ by BareNaked Ladies, there’s a line where they sing “like Harrison Ford, I’m getting ‘Frantic,’ like Sting, I’m tantric, like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy.” My tongue just cannot do the gymnastics needed to ever sing that line correctly. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/92 "2022-01-22T01:42:05Z")
Gray skies are gonna clear up…sit on a happy face ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/93 "2022-01-28T21:29:53Z")
I had a friend at college who could, seemingly spontaneously, make up dirty lyrics to whatever song was playing on the radio. One example was “The Game of Love” by the Mindbenders, was it? In his version the purpose of a man _wasn’t_ to love a woman, at least not exactly. “Lucky Man” by ELP, it wasn’t “he” who had white horses, but she who had white horses, at least not exactly. And when “Help Me, Rhonda” played it became “Eat Me, Lisa”. Folks found this quite amusing, except for Lisa. And as for “Loves me like a Rock”, it wasn’t “my momma” , it was “YOUR momma”. And given that the next line was “She gets down on her knees”, you can kind of figure out where things went from there. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/94 "2022-01-28T22:04:35Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > One example was “The Game of Love” by the Mindbenders, was it? In his version the purpose of a man _wasn’t_ to love a woman, at least not exactly. Oh, my God, I do that too. I make “There’s a Kind of Hush” by Herman’s Hermits dirty, too. _There’s a kind of hush all over the world tonight All over the world, you can hear the sounds of lovers in love…_ OH, AHHHHH, YESSSSS! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/95 "2022-01-29T15:09:04Z")
God didn’t make little grey oysters And nuns don’t hang around in cloisters in the Summertime… ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/96 "2022-01-29T15:34:46Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > When the moon hits your eye > Like a big piece of pie, that’s amore! When an eel bites your toe And it tickles your nose, that’s a moray! ———— D-I-N-G-O D-I-N-G-O D-I-N-G-O A dingo ate your baby! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/97 "2022-01-29T15:56:14Z")
Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days. Me: Think I’ll go down to the well tonight, and drink until I get my bill. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/98 "2022-01-29T21:23:20Z")
We used to sing “We had joy, we had fun, rabbit raisins the sun.” A childhood friend changed it from “Torn between two lovers” to “Born between two lovers.” A friend in college changed it from “Oh yeah, life goes on; long after the thrill of living is gone” to “Oh yeah, life goes on; long after the thrill of Thanksgiving is gone.” Instead of “Stuck in the middle with you,” make it “Suckin’ the middle with you.” Jose can you see by the dawn’s early light… Not a song, but: I led the pigeons to the flag of the United States of America …one naked…individual…with liberty and justice for all. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/99 "2022-01-29T21:24:19Z")
Once there was a way…to get back homework… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/100 "2022-01-29T21:24:20Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > “Torn between two lovers” I won’t tell you the image that line brings up. 😲 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352.md?page=6)