Elton John’s song Tiny Dancer
A friend of mine sang along with it:
“Hold me closer Tony Danza”
And now I can’t hear it any other way.
Eh. I prefer “Kingdom in the Sky”.
There was on old song, probalby a one hit wonder, by a band called Honeycomb.
It was called Want Ad
about a woman who puts a want ad in the paper for a guy!
This was a new idea back then (the 60’s).
Experience in love preferred
but we’ll accept if youre Chinese
I could never fiugre it out
YEARS later, I heard it and heard correctly for the first time it was
but we’ll accept if your trainees
Ah…
Dangit, someone beat me to it.
It’s off the album The Life and Times of Mike Fanning
Ya know…for the longest time I thought it was
“Burnin’ up the streets of Avalon”,m’self.
Only recently did I find out it was “Burning up a fuse out here alone.”
IDBB
Mrs. Bernse thought the exact same thing up until about a year ago, when I popped in a CCR CD and she asked me why they’d have lyrics like that. I laughed for about 15 minutes!
Strange love,
Strange eyes and strange nose
(actually: Strange highs and strange lows)
Depeche Mode
From Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets”"
“she’s got electirc boobs, a mohair suit”
and from “Red Skies at Night,” by the Fixx:
“Rick’s got a knife.”
Elton John’s Benny and the Jets:
She’s got Electric Boobs and Mohawk Shoes!
No, no, no, it’s Secret Cajun Man.
Here’s a few links guaranteed to screw up future hearings of the songs in question:
Paul McCartney sings about barnyard animals and Bronski Beat sing about Italian food abuse.
Madonna and Destiny’s Child sings about old UK television personalities.
And finally, a classical music example.
Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the wall Part 2
No dark stork has’em (should be No dark sarcasm)
And when I was in primary school and we sang God Save the Queen, I never could figure out why we wanted the Queen to rain on us (since we couldn’t play outdoors in the rain)
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Send her victorious, happy and glorious
Long may she rain over us.
Depeche Mode’s “Master and Servant” starts with Martin or Dave singing “it’s a lot/it’s a lot/it’s a lot like life” which of course, becomes “it’s a log/it’s a log” and spawns the drunken bawling of “it’s log, it’s log/it’s big it’s heavy it’s wood!”
ummm…
would it matter greatly if the actual line goes:
“Experience in love preferred,
But will accept a young trainee.” ?
and in the Golden Oldies category, when the song “Neanderthal” was popular, my mother couldn’t quite figure out what the line “bring on the other tall girl” was doing in there. Actual lyrics: “You’re a Neanderthal girl”. :rolleyes:
and thanks, dwmacg, for a great case of the giggles from Lucille.
lachesis
Brown Eyed Girl:
‘Going down on the old man
With a transistor radio’
Lunatic Fringe by Red Ryder.
I didn’t know the name of the song for a long time, and I thought the first line of the song, which is “Lunatic Fringe”, the damn title of the song, was actually “Let me take French.” I was so ashamed when I learned the truth.
Kissing the night away… Yup, I was sure the line was kissing the night away.
I don’t know what was wrong with me :smack:
Afterall, the rest of the song is all about drinking. I’m talking about Chumbawumba - Tubthumping.
Just call me :wally
Until I saw your post, I still thought it was pissing the night away.
As a matter of fact, I’m sticking by it. It makes more sense!
Hey…I remember a VH1 karaoke type program printing out the lyrics during the song; they say PISSING the night away as well!
I wonder how many people realize that “Judy In Disguise With Glasses” is a parody of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
Talk about weird coinidences I heard a DJ singing “There’s a bathroom on the right” after "Bad Moon Risin’ " just the other day.
One I heard on Darma and Greg:
What do you get when you fall in love?
You get enough germs to cause pnuemonia
My personal favorite from “Jesus Christ Superstar”
Jesus Christ Superstar
Who in the world do you think you are?
hehe…I thought the name of the song was “Awesome, shoot me under” No really. My husband has made fun of me for years. Sigh. :smack: