# Song lyrics you deliberately sing wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444 "2012-04-30T20:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/1 "2012-04-30T20:12:42Z")
I have some songs where I sing the wrong words because it’s funnier that way. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More. The actual lyric is “Man is a giddy thing”, which I sing as “Man is a guinea pig”. Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me, instead of “pockets full of stones” I sing “pockets full of scones”. I feel like there are probably some of these where a certain group of people has a modification to the lyrics, like singing “Root, root, root for the [insert your team name here]” in Take Me Out to the Ball Game - but probably more creative than that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/2 "2012-04-30T20:26:04Z")
“Hold me closer, Tony Danza!” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/3 "2012-04-30T20:35:41Z")
Whiskey you’re the devil, you’re leading me astray Over hills and mountains and to a Mary Kay. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/4 "2012-04-30T20:40:25Z")
Are you reeling in the years? Stowin’ away the time? Are you gathering up the cheese? Have you had enough wine? ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/5 "2012-04-30T20:43:42Z")
Adele - “Rolling in the sheep” instead of “Rolling in the deep.” I play a lot of Settlers of Catan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/6 "2012-04-30T20:59:18Z")
Smokey " …if you feel like giving me a lifetime of _servility_, I second that emotion…" ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/7 "2012-04-30T22:35:35Z")
“Don’t cry for me Ike and Tina…” ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/8 "2012-04-30T22:38:36Z")
“I’ll never dance with her mother (ewww!) Since I saw her standing there.” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/9 "2012-04-30T22:39:51Z")
“All you need is blah” ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/10 "2012-04-30T22:40:36Z")
AC/DC “And she was faking it with you” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/11 "2012-04-30T22:45:44Z")
I don’t care what anyone says, it’s “wrapped up like a douche.” ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/12 "2012-04-30T22:53:08Z")
Billy Joel – She’s Got Oy Vey About Her ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/13 "2012-04-30T22:59:08Z")
Johnny Cash singing NIN’s ‘Hurt’ “What have I become, my Swedish friend?” ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/14 "2012-04-30T22:59:45Z")
The Doors - “Come on Baby bite my wire…” ---
**Author:** ![Odaran09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Odaran09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odaran09)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/15 "2012-04-30T23:04:02Z")
Anything that has been done Weird Al. I cannot hear the original without the parody version rattling around in my head. I usually end up singing the Al version loudly over the original one. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/16 "2012-04-30T23:07:45Z")
One-ton tomato! I eat a one-ton tomato. One-ton tomaaaaaatoooo . . . ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/17 "2012-04-30T23:12:32Z")
> [@Odaran09](#): > > Anything that has been done Weird Al. I cannot hear the original without the parody version rattling around in my head. I usually end up singing the Al version loudly over the original one. The recent car commercial with Gangster Paradise playing in the background is the ONLY time I have EVER heard the original song. Amish Paradise was what I heard first, and what I will hear forever, no matter what’s actually playing. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/18 "2012-04-30T23:15:17Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > One-ton tomato! > I eat a one-ton tomato. > One-ton tomaaaaaatoooo . . . One ton of mayo… Why not eat one ton of mayo… Also, when J Geils’ Freeze Frame song came out, a Chicago station was big on parody songs, so when I hear it I sing “Faulklands!!” followed by sheep noises. Same reason I think of firefighters when I hear Starship’s “Jane”. Poor Mayor Byrne; between that and Cabrini Green, she didn’t stand a chance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/19 "2012-04-30T23:16:48Z")
Other fellas call me up for a date But I just sit and wait I’d rather masturbate for Johnny Angel… ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/20 "2012-04-30T23:17:01Z")
“You are like a hurricane./ There’s cum in your eyes” — Neil Young - Like a Hurricane “Dye! Dye my hair!/ A darker shade of brown! It’s too light for me!” — Metallica - Creeping Death There’s a parody version of The Doors’ Riders on the Storm, done by Bob Rivers, which is quite brilliant. It’s called ‘Burgers on the Grill’ ([youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DSeP3N4hg4)) and its lyrics in their entirety are better than the original. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444.md?page=2)