# misunderstood song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914 "2001-10-07T10:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/1 "2001-10-07T10:33:53Z")
Okay, it’s Thanksgiving weekend, my roommates are gone, and I’m bored. So I was listening to the radio, and they played Jet Airliner, by Steve Miller, and remembered that I used to think the lyrics were: _Big old Jed had a line-up Doug can’t be too far away_ Which aways made me wonder. What did big old Jed have that was good enough to line up for? Was it a long line up? How big and how old was this Jed? Who’s this Doug character? So many questions, so few answers. So who else has misunderstood song lyrics they want to share? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/2 "2001-10-07T10:47:34Z")
Good lord. [This.](http://www.kissthisguy.com/) And [this](http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml), referenced by [This](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/20/DD111264.DTL) and [this.](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/21/DD232572.DTL) And there’s a bathroom on the right. Besides, the classic SMB one is “Chug-A-Lug! It’s drivin me mad… It’s makin me crazy!” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/3 "2001-10-07T13:53:54Z")
“take the back right turn” -Paperback Writer, by the Beatles. For over a decade, I misheard the title. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/4 "2001-10-07T14:46:39Z")
I was extremely sad to finally hear the correct lyrics to All Along The Watchtower. It turns out the words are “But you and I we’ve been through that/and this is not our fate/so let us not talk falsely now/the hour’s getting late” I always hear: “so let us not talk falsely now/_that I was getting laid_” The second one lives on in my heart. ::sniff:: LC ---
**Author:** ![sandpiper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@sandpiper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandpiper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/5 "2001-10-07T14:49:45Z")
A few years ago I was trying to be nice to my niece by letting her play a country radio station (even though I’m not much of a country music fan) I stood it as long as I could and then announced that I couldn’t put up with another playing of ‘Lock me up Inside the Jukebox When I Die’ It took my niece at least 15 minutes to stop laughing and tell me the real lyrics. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/6 "2001-10-07T23:05:06Z")
I forgot this one, the Beatles _Get Back_: _Jo-jo was a man who thought he was an owner but he didn’t pay the tax Jo-jo loved his home in Tucson, Arizona, and bought some California grass_ This made some sense to me, as obviously, if you weren’t paying the tax, you couldn’t possibly be the owner. However, if you smoked enough California grass, I suppose you wouldn’t care. Thanks for the link, **White Lightning** , I just about killed myself laughing! ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-song-lyrics/85914/7 "2001-10-08T01:09:34Z")
When Carly Simon’s _ **You’re So Vain** _ first came out, I swear to God she sang **“Some underworld spy/Or the life of a clothespin”** at the end of the 3rd verse… And what the heck was Elton John talking about in _ **Levon** _ other than **“because this child Jesus”**??? 😕 I’ve always wondered about a lot of other lyrics, but right now my brain’s shutting down for the evening…