# Name that tune Misheard Lyrics edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355 "2008-12-31T14:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/21 "2008-12-31T18:00:27Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Island Girl? that’s gotta be it. There’s another part of that song: _He wants to take her to the racquet club_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/22 "2008-12-31T18:02:48Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Island Girl? He wants to rape you but the balls are wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/23 "2008-12-31T18:04:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > He wants to rape you but the balls are wrong. Oddly, not the first time I’ve heard that addressed to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/24 "2008-12-31T18:04:24Z")
Here’s a YouTube of Games People Play: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TYPQMPO_oY0/hqdefault.jpg "Alan Parsons Project Live- "Games People Play"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPQMPO_oY0) You know it, Biggirl: _Where do we go from heeeere. Now that all of our children have grown up…_ Here’s a new misheard: _Medieval woman…_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/25 "2008-12-31T18:06:15Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Here’s a YouTube of Games People Play: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPQMPO\_oY0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPQMPO_oY0) > > You know it, Biggirl: _Where do we go from heeeere. Now that all of our children have grown up.._ > > Here’s a new misheard: > > _Medieval woman…_ It’s a different song than the Spinner’s one. I’d link but work blocks youtube. Is this one Evil Woman by, um, ELO? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/26 "2009-01-01T00:48:41Z")
_The Dukes of Hazzard are in the classroom…_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/27 "2009-01-01T01:49:39Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “You Shook Me All Night Long” - AC/DC That’s the song that starts out “She was a fax machine,” right? ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/28 "2009-01-01T02:31:17Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > That’s the song that starts out “She was a fax machine,” right? _She kept my modem clean, She was the best damn woman that I’d never seen. She had the sightless eyes Had me circumcised…_ SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/29 "2009-01-01T03:10:05Z")
[Kiss this Guy](http://www.kissthisguy.com/). Here are all the misheard lyrics anyone could want. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/30 "2009-01-01T03:30:13Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > [Kiss this Guy](http://www.kissthisguy.com/). Here are all the misheard lyrics anyone could want. Ah, but half the fun is people HERE posting lyrics that they have personally misheard! ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/31 "2009-01-01T03:31:15Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > _The Dukes of Hazzard are in the classroom…_ _The Wall_ by Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/32 "2009-01-01T03:36:41Z")
[The Spinner’s Games People Play.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tqfk0KZjrY) Which is actually named Just Can’t Stop It although I’ve never heard it called that, not even by radio DJs. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/33 "2009-01-01T03:40:11Z")
Sorry no one has one for me to guess, but I’ll start things off again with: _The dogs say “good night.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/34 "2009-01-01T03:41:27Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > “Just like the Wendigo > sings a song sounds like she’s singin’ > ooo, ooo, ooo!” The real wrong words are “Just like the wild wind blows. . .” ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/35 "2009-01-01T03:58:51Z")
Kaylasdad, I actually thought that is what he was saying in “What a Wonderful World.” When my sister and cousin were little they INSISTED the the singer was singing “Midnight Tennessee” in this cheesy mid 70s song. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/36 "2009-01-01T04:49:29Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > Kaylasdad, I actually thought that is what he was saying in “What a Wonderful World.” > > When my sister and cousin were little they INSISTED the the singer was singing “Midnight Tennessee” in this cheesy mid 70s song. Is it Undercover Angel by God knows who?\* \*Google says Alan O’Day. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/37 "2009-01-01T05:29:14Z")
Oh, oh, I got one! _Thirty thieves… and the thunder genie! Thirty thieves… and the thunder genie!_ I swear, that’s how I heard it. When I asked my roommate who the thunder genie was, he nearly died laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/38 "2009-01-01T05:35:52Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Oh, oh, I got one! > > _Thirty thieves… and the thunder genie! > Thirty thieves… and the thunder genie!_ > > I swear, that’s how I heard it. When I asked my roommate who the thunder genie was, he nearly died laughing. Dirty Deeds by AC/DC. I know this is right because thunder genie is what he really says according to my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/39 "2009-01-01T06:48:04Z")
“But let me tell you, it’s better than bein’ a bitch” ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355/40 "2009-01-01T07:18:54Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > “But let me tell you, it’s better than bein’ a bitch” Car Wash by Rose Royce? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-misheard-lyrics-edition/479355.md?page=3)