# Misheard lyrics redux **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084 "2005-06-20T17:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/41 "2005-06-27T19:51:57Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > My personal mis-hearing was Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville, where he’s “Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt.” When I first heard it - on AM radio, no less - I thought he was searching for his lost Chippewa Squaw. I was 9 years old, fer chrissakes - what did I know about margarita drinking procedure? I always heard him searching for his “Salt shaker of love.” ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/42 "2005-06-27T21:56:43Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > When Stevie Nicks sang, “Just like a white-winged dove”, a friend of mine in college thought she was singing… “Just like a park ranger” > > - shakes head sadly \* Don’t feel too badly. Until just recently\* I thought she was singing _“Just like a one-winged dove”_. :smack: \*[SIZE=1]when I read this thread [/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/43 "2005-06-27T22:15:35Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > You’ll never convince me that The Who is singing anything but ‘Everythings Fucked’ in the song Eminance Front. > > > [@Dung Beetle](#): > > > > When my daughter was about five years old, she called that song, “Eleven O’Clock”. I once heard someone on a ‘listener request weekend" ask the Classic Rock DJ to play that Who song, _‘Livin’ in the Bronx_’ > [@Crandolph](#): > > I wondered for months about the '80s hit “Honest to See Ya.” Made no sense at all… > “Our Lips Are Sealed,” now that’s better… > > > [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > > > I always thought the Go-Gos were singing about a friendly sea mammal, “Alex the Seal.” And when I 1st heard it, I thought it was _‘I Love Cecile’_ Two Princes - Spin Doctors, to this day, I still hear: If you wanna buy me flowers, Just go ahead, now And if you’d like to cum for hours, Just go ahead, now ---
**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:** [June 28, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/44 "2005-06-28T00:47:28Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I have heard of other people having this specifc mis-hearing, but not many: > > From Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” - > “No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom” > > I know now that it’s “No dark sarcasm in the classroom” but I swear I was hearing it the other way & wondering what the boys had to do with this song… I thought it was “No rock star has 'em in the classroom”. In Queen’s _We Will Rock You_, instead of, \* You got blood on your face You big disgrace Wavin’ your banner all over the place. \* I heard, "Wavin’ your bladder all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/45 "2005-06-28T00:52:05Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > I thought it was “No rock star has 'em in the classroom”. Me, too! For like twenty-five years or so. How embarrassin’. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/46 "2005-06-28T01:06:59Z")
“…is baby, be president!” Q ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/47 "2005-06-28T01:25:26Z")
For years I thought that the line from Elton John’s “Don’t let the sun go down on me” “I can’t light no more of your darkness” was “Mumble, no more Augie Dog days” Elton as a classic cartoon fan, I guess. A friend of mine told me that she thought that Corey Hart’s “I Wear My Sunglasses at Night”'s line: “Don’t mess around with the guy in shades of …” was really “Don’t masturbate with the guy in shade of…” Not that I was ever a Corey Hart fan, but on the two or three occasions that I’ve heard the song since, guess which version I remember? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/48 "2005-06-28T02:03:38Z")
…Gonna tell everyone to light one up!" Q ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/49 "2005-06-30T04:58:05Z")
Apparently in “Blinded by the Light,” he’s “revved up like Deuce” not “Wrapped up like a douche” ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/50 "2005-07-01T02:11:43Z")
As a teenager I taught myself Creedence Clearwater Revival’s **Green River** on guitar, but had to warble these lyrics that I guessed at: _Well, take me on down the boo-ya boneyard Let me remember things I love Come and walk along the catfish vine Rollin’ along the river road at night Catfish girl, dancin’ on the moon with you_ You get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/51 "2005-07-01T02:19:54Z")
My favourite was not my mishearing, but my younger sister’s. She’d sing loudly along to the classic Aerosmith tune, “Love is an Alligator”. And to echo **ChoosyChips** , that’s \*not \* what Smashmouth was singing? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/52 "2005-07-01T04:28:28Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > And to echo **ChoosyChips** , that’s \*not \* what Smashmouth was singing? Relate. When your baby’s old enough to relate. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/53 "2005-07-01T04:52:02Z")
When I was little, I enjoyed ABC by the Jackson 5. I’d heard a lyric as Jesus gonna show you-how to get an A. I think now its teahcers gonna show you. Also, I still wonder who Bob Faroouk is. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/54 "2005-07-01T12:49:37Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#): > > For years I thought that the line from Elton John’s “Don’t let the sun go down on me” > > “I can’t light no more of your darkness” > > was > > “Mumble, no more Augie Dog days” I think Elton John’s [“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”](http://www.eltonography.com/songs/goodbye_yellow_brick_road.html) had the most lines I just never got the right version of. The way he stresses different syllables makes it really difficult. On the flip side though, I just knew I was wrong when I thought it was “the horny-back toad” but not so! ---
**Author:** ![corncobpipe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@corncobpipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corncobpipe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/55 "2005-07-01T15:29:17Z")
> [@Ender\_Will](#): > > Apparently in “Blinded by the Light,” he’s “revved up like Deuce” not “Wrapped up like a douche” In the original Springsteen clearly sings duece. In the remake, Manfred Mann clearly sings douche. I don’t think it matters what the lyrics sheet says. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/56 "2005-07-02T04:11:59Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#): > > For years I thought that the line from Elton John’s “Don’t let the sun go down on me” > > “I can’t light no more of your darkness” > > was > > “Mumble, no more Augie Dog days” Pretty much the same here, only I thought it was “…no more Augie darkness.” 😃 And **Ender\_Will** , based on what I’ve been told by someone who would know, Springsteen sang it “revved”, while Mannfred Mann sang it “wrapped” or, more likely, “rapped”, which meant revved back in the hot-rod and muscle-car days. When you gunned your engine to very high revolutions, you "rapped it out."I was told also that both were saying “deuce” – a type of hot-rod – but Mannfred Mann pronounced it in such a way that it sounded like douche. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/57 "2005-07-02T04:34:36Z")
Lucky there’s a family guy. Lucky there’s a man who positively can do all the things that makes us effin’ cry. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/58 "2005-07-02T04:42:01Z")
Does anyone have the lyrics to ABC? It sounds like Bob Farouk! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/59 "2005-07-02T05:22:59Z")
I heard the GoGos tune as **Honest I See You** for about 6 months, then a crack of lightning hit me and I heard it correctly… it was a Mountain Dew-meets-nostrils moment, I can tell ya. At about the same time, Eddie Money’s **Shakin’** was on the radio. To this day when he sings the chorus line “snappin’ her fingers” I hear “slappin’ her big ass”. The video certainly didn’t help me to self-correct this, either. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084/60 "2005-07-02T05:35:15Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > Does anyone have the lyrics to ABC? It sounds like Bob Farouk! Here are [the lyrics.](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jackson-5,-the/68457.html) Apparently you’re mishearing “gotta do”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics-redux/309084.md?page=4)