Huh! TIL something.
There is a story, probably apocryphal, that when Sir Christopher Wren was overseeing the construction of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the late 1600s he took the monarch, supposedly King James II on a tour of the cathedral. His Highness supposedly described the work as “awful, amusing, and artificial,” by which he meant that it was amazing and designed very artfully, and that it filled him with awe.
My favorite kid-related entry is one that a friend’s young daughter used to sing many years ago:
Accurate lyric: “Don’t it make my brown eyes blue”.
Kid version: “Don’t it make my brownies smooth”.
As I recall, she was very young, very cute, and sang it very sincerely.
mmm
When I was younger, when listening to the Van Morrison song “Brown-Eyed Girl,” I thought that the line “Are you my brown-eyed girl?” was “Are you mad, brown-eyed girl?”
We recently watched the super fantastic British series The Split. I use subtitles to assist with accent issues. During one scene people are doing karaoke to Blondie’s Dreaming*. Oh, that’s how that line goes. And that one two. And that one. Gee, I’ve only listened to the song several thousand times. :smack:
E.g.,
“I’ve been in love before …”
is really
“I’d build a road in gold …”
I like my version better. A lot better.
(During the series they also played another Blondie song, and a Pretenders one, etc. And it’s all set in the present day. Cool, cool, cool, cool.)
One of my young nephews was heard to sing
Gloria, I think they got your number.
I think they got the area code you’re living under.
I made your nephew’s mistake until today. 
(Well, I didn’t insert the word “code”, but I implied it.)
There are numerous versions of the story. Some include *terrible *as in inspiring terror, and *pompous *but in a good sense.
I thought everybody knew about it, but for those of you who actually have a life, and are not aware of this link:
There is a classic site that began in the earliest days of the web (1995 or so), called
Named, of course, for Jimi Hendrix’s famous line “excuse me, while I kiss the sky”.
Always had trouble with AC/DC. Misinterpreted “Dirty deeds and they’re done dirt cheap” as “Thirty thieves and the thunder genie.” My version is more interesting, IMHO.
I still wonder about what disco number it was, thirty-odd years ago, where I’m sure I heard the line (admittedly, I’d had a few) -“I’m addicted to your one-legged charms” (no, not Addicted To Love)
Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann.
Correct:
What I hear:
Blinded by the light
Wrapped like a douche
AFAIK, that is very common.
What the actual lyrics are supposed to be:
Another runner in the night
What I hear:
Another rumor in the night
Aretha Franklin’s ‘You make me feel like a mental old woman’.
I heard what everyone else heard, of course, but then reading this message someone also pointed out that
And little early-pearly
Came by in his curly-wurly
sounds like
little early birdy gave my anus curly whirly
and wondered what act “curly whirly” could be. Now whenever I think of the song I can’t help but think of those alternate lyrics, and also wonder what the heck doing “curly whirly” could consist of.
Well it is a type of Cadbury’s chocolate bar, if that helps?
It still sounds like “racked up like a douche” to me.
Yep, it’s always sounded like douche in the night.
That singer needs to learn how to enunciate.
Could have sworn Johnny Five in “Short Circuit” was singing about a Bald-headed woman instead of more than a woman
I heard once that the recording studio didn’t have a windscreen (I think that’s what it’s called) for the mike. How that would make runner sound like rumor, I don’t know.