# 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:** 10
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/181 "2013-07-06T11:45:59Z")
Searching for that outlaw shaker of salt… mmm ---
**Author:** ![thicksantorum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@thicksantorum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thicksantorum)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/182 "2013-07-06T16:50:13Z")
Are you reelin’ in the yeast? Stewin’ away the crime? Are you gatherin’ up the cheese? Have you had enough o’ mine? ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/183 "2013-07-07T01:33:34Z")
Elton John: “Someone shaved my wife tonight, Sugar Bear” and… “Me and Susie had so much fun, holding hands and skipping stones, had an oboe shelly and a piss on my own…” For years I wondered what an oboe shelly was. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/184 "2013-07-07T02:58:48Z")
_Michelle, ma belle, Someday monkey won’t play piano song, Play piano song…_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/185 "2013-07-07T04:13:45Z")
When I sing “Mack the Knife” at karaoke, instead of “Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown,” I sing the following line: “Look out for lovely Miss Linda and old Lucy Brown.” Why? Well, years ago, when I was singing karaoke, two of the regulars were Jim and Linda. They were good friends, and were both tickled when I inserted Linda’s name into the song. It got to be a habit, and though I haven’t seen Jim and Linda in years, I still sing it that way. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/186 "2013-07-07T04:22:56Z")
My buddy Tom sings wrong lyrics to just about everything, and I’ve picked up a few over the years. Probably my favourite is Elton John’s “Sad Songs”: ‘Reach into your room, Woah oh oh oh Just feel their genitals…’ Give it a listen, it REALLY sounds like that’s what he’s sayings. Thanks, thwartme ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/187 "2013-07-07T23:09:45Z")
> [@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. Me, too. Whenever the [original of this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8) comes along, SWMBO tells me to shut up before the first verse starts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/188 "2013-07-08T00:10:37Z")
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed He killed the family pets to keep the family fed Shoved a skewer up the ass and out through the nose, And with the leftovers he made a casserole… ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/189 "2013-07-08T00:16:54Z")
Lyrics I made up to “Three Ravens” involving a dead gangbanger rather than a knight: Yonder comes the pregnant ho As great with young as she might go She bore him up upon her rump And threw him in the city dump (Insert a few down derrys) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/190 "2013-07-08T00:26:34Z")
[I’ve got two ticks and a pair of lice! Don’t you know that they’re just parasites! I’ve got two ticks and a pair of lice! I’ve got two ticks and a pair of lice!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXIJQ2kw3g) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/191 "2013-07-08T00:30:25Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > I tend to use “lunch”. > > All you eat is lunch > All you eat is lunch > All you eat is lunch, lunch > Lunch is all you eat. I don’t care too much for monkeys; monkeys can’t buy me lunch. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/192 "2013-07-08T00:50:42Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > The one I find most fun is The Beatles’ Lady Madonna – in the break where they sing “ba ba bah, ba ba ba bababah…” I do it as chickens bawking. I always picture Gonzo leading his chicken chorus on The Muppet Show.–Cliffy Me too!! Chickens, Muppets. (I wish I’d seen this when Cliffy posted it a year ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/193 "2013-07-08T01:12:50Z")
Not because I’m an insufferable hipster, but because it’s from 1931. _You Forgot Your Gloves_ is a song about a guy who swipes a woman’s gloves so he’ll see her again. Real version: _There’s a chance if you receive them, dear, that you’ll leave them, dear, again._ Doug’s version: _There’s a chance if you retrieve them, dear, that you’ll leave them here again._ ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/194 "2013-07-08T01:22:07Z")
I come to you with broken arms… ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/195 "2013-07-08T01:29:34Z")
From John Lennon’s “Woman.” _Woman, I can hardly express My mixed emotions as I peek down your dress._ ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/196 "2013-07-08T01:42:15Z")
I bumped into this one day on youtube and whoever did this was pretty clever. It never fails to make me laugh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwrgAnx6Q8 Crazy thing happening to link. If you’re interested go to youtube and search for cartoon version of “O Fortuna.” ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/197 "2013-07-08T02:55:06Z")
About 6 months ago, a friend and I were discussing how offensive and disgusting we found the porn-site related acronym LBFM. (If you don’t know it what it means, consider yourself lucky. Allow yourself to retain some hope for humanity and don’t look it up). On the way back from lunch, the Black Keys song “Little Black Submarines” came on the radio. Without saying a word, we both starting giggling. “Oh my god, it scans perfectly!!” “This song is ruined forever!” 6 months later, I still can’t not hear it that way. Thanks to chaperoning a middle school field trip, I now hear the opening line of Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat” as _Suck you off, tonight I wanna suck you off_ ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/198 "2013-07-08T03:37:13Z")
“I was born in a cross-eyed hurricane.” ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/199 "2013-07-08T04:12:26Z")
Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight Playing with his tool ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/200 "2013-07-08T11:52:39Z")
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