# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/121 "2012-05-05T12:04:56Z")
:::Hijack::: I just found a potential one. _Lunch Money_’s “Yes We Have Rhythm” has a line Do your eyes blink [yes we have rhythm] Do your shoes squeak [yes we have rhythm] I just realized that I was expecting a rhyme, in other words “Do your eyes blink, do your shoes stink?” ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/122 "2012-05-05T16:53:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > "Children roasting on an open fire, > “Jack Frost nipping at their toes…” Chester’s roasting on an open fire. Jack is stepping on his toes. > [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Don’t go out tonight, you’re bound to lose your life- there’s a bathroom on the right Ditto. > [@robardin](#): > > I cannot hear Lady Gaga’s song “Butterface” without thinking how much better the alternate lyrics are 🙂 Yeah, first time I heard “Pokerface” and then found out who sang it, I couldn’t help but sing butterface afterward. Happy to see someone made an actual parody. > [@Zsofia](#): > > “Hold me closer, Tony Danza!” I remember the first time I saw someone post that on a message board I moderate. I busted a gut laughing. > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I came here to post Secret Asian Man. Yep. It’s just funnier that way. Oddly enough, I never really noticed that it sounds like “Asian” until later in my life. My dad used to listen to the oldies station and I always new it was “agent”, until one day it hit me how bad the diction on that word really is. > [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Oh, the weather outside is frightful, > But your thighs are so delightful,… Speaking of thighs: In your thighs The light, the heat (In your thighs) I am complete (In your thighs) I see the doorway To a thousand Churches. (In your thighs) The resolution of all the fruitless searches. Oh I see the light and the heat. (In your thighs) Oh I wanna be that complete. I wanna touch the light, the heat I see in your thighs. Yes you’re all welcome for that one. Just try to hear that Peter Gabriel song in any other manner now. > [@Doug\_K](#): > > Later on, we’ll perspire as we roast by the fire. > To face, so afraid, the bills left unpaid. > Walking in a winter wonderland. I always sing perspire at that part as well. > [@notfrommensa](#): > > “Dirty Deeds, and they’re done with Sheep” > [@11811](#): > > That’s “walking wearing women’s underwear”😃 Yep. Bob River’s has done both, though I think I sang the sheep version before he made a recording of it. > [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I think this one may be far from widespread but- > > In the **Rush** song **Freewill** , instead of “path that’s clear” I always sing (and hear): > > \*♫ I will choose a \*\*bathysphere \*_♫_ > > I know it makes absolutely no sense, but that’s what my brain thought it heard way back when and it stuck! When I first heard the song, all I could here was “I will choose out of my sphere.” I knew that couldn’t be right, because it didn’t make much sense in the larger context of the song. Eventually I puzzled out what he really sings. > [@Jack\_Crazyquilt](#): > > Also, add me to the list of people who sing Weird Al lyrics while the original song is playing. Ditto. > [@panache45](#): > > The Beatles’ “The girl with colitis goes by.” My mother thought that was the way it originally went she was younger. Oh, and then, when my girlfriend was a kid, she always heard and sang this: She’s got a chicken to ride. She’s got a chicken to ri-i-ide. She’s got a chicken to ride But she don’t care. My girlfriend was of the opinion that having a chicken you could ride would be a wonderful thing, and could understand why someone would be lamenting the fact that someone didn’t appreciate it. She was disappointed to find out the real lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/123 "2012-05-05T17:21:50Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Smokey " …if you feel like giving me a lifetime of _servility_, I second that emotion…" “Although she may be cute, she’s just a prostitute…” > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I came here to post Secret Asian Man. [Da Vinci’s Notebook](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR34ilk4xaI) heard it that way too. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/124 "2012-05-05T17:24:26Z")
(From a very old Cheech and Chong movie, but I still find it amusing) da da DA DA da DA da DA da DA duh da da DA DA da DA My Ssscrotum! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/125 "2012-05-05T18:54:45Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > “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. “Leader Of The Landromat” By the Detergents. One of the greatest parody songs ever: https://www.youtube.com/embed/i4dEuqKAgn8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Carptracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Carptracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carptracker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/126 "2012-05-05T22:21:20Z")
Dylan: I seen a lot o’ women, I seen a lot o’ beHIND! (instead of “but she never 'scaped my MIND”) ---
**Author:** ![Jesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesta)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/127 "2012-05-06T05:27:16Z")
and continue to sing to myself… Guns n’ Roses - You’re Crazy Ow! I’ve been lookin’ for a plate Lookin’ for a (pop?)tart, Lookin’ for a oven in this house That’s much too dark Because you won’t cook my lunch, no, no You wanna, go onna vacation Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ow! You won’t cook my lunch You gonna find yourself in another Another place, another place of your own, yeah, ow yeah, look out See what i’m bakin’? What i’ve gotta stew? I’ve been cookin’ everything and I, I been washin’ for you Because you won’t cook my lunch, no, no You want me to, eat on location Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah You won’t make my lunch I’m gonna find yourself where another Another pizza, another pizza’s The main attraction You’re lazy, hey, hey You know you’re lazy, oh my! You’re fat n’ lazy, do-sile! You know you’re lazy Ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ah,ah,ah,ah, yeah! Woh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh na,no,na,no,na,no,na,no,na,no,no,no No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no No,no,no, no, no, no, no,no,no,no,no,no no,no,no! Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, Oh no, ow! -Woooh, yum! Hey boy, where ya comin’ from? Where’d ya find that Vac-a-Uum? When I was younger I had a housekeeper like you, and she said, ‘You don’t need my gloves, You wanna self-sanitasation,’ Bitch You don’t need my scrubs, You’ve got to claim yourself another Another seat, another seat in- Front of the action You’re lazy, hey, hey You know you’re lazy, oh my! You’re fat n’ lazy, oh-bese You know you’re lazy, Ay, ay, ay, ay, You know you’re lazy, Hey, hey, You’re fat n’ lazy, Oh Wow, You know you’re lazy, Ay, ay, ay, ay, You’re fu#@in’ lazy, Yeah You know you are! Sitting down! You’re fu#@in’ LAZY! Original Lyrics here: [http://www.lyrics007.com/Guns%20N’%20Roses%20Lyrics/You’re%20Crazy%20Lyrics.html](http://www.lyrics007.com/Guns%20N%27%20Roses%20Lyrics/You%27re%20Crazy%20Lyrics.html) Original Performance here: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2KI0Fs-fI) Dedicated to an ex-partner of mine! 😛 (Probably a good thing I don’t have an instrumental version of the song, nor a decent singing voice!) Oh, and Yes, Secret Asian Man, Tony Danza, Love\Drugs\Lunch, Wrapped up like a douche, all common from me too… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/128 "2012-05-06T05:56:59Z")
> [@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. Don McLean has said that when he goes to sing “American Pie” in concert, he will often find himself singing the lyrics to Weird Al’s parody, “The Saga Begins,” instead. As for me, when I hear Johnny Rivers’ “Secret Agent Man,” I can’t help singing “Secret Asian Man”. 😃 EDIT - And I thought I was the only one! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/129 "2012-05-07T13:38:49Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > Take me down to the Parasite City > Where the girls are green and the grass tastes shitty > Oh won’t you please take me home, yeaaah Take me down to Paradise City Where all the girls got great big titties Oh won’t you please take me home \*Hot-blooded \*by Foreigner: Cuz I’m Dimwitted, check it and see Got an IQ of seventy three Cmon baby, I cant’ chew gum and walk Cuz I’m dimwitted, DIMWITTED! I too sing “In Your Thighs” by Peter Gabriel. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/130 "2012-05-07T13:50:23Z")
I forgot my helpful tip: Just put “Tongue” in place of “love.” It rarely changes the meaning of the song but usually makes it clearer. Especially for AC/DC. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/131 "2012-05-07T16:14:00Z")
I might just mention Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” here… the lyrics we all know are not the original ones; they were rewritten by Dorothy LaBostrie. The song was originally dirty; AFAIK, no recorded version exists, and the original lyrics are mostly lost. So if you sing dirty lyrics to the song, you might actually be singing it _right._ ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/132 "2012-05-07T16:41:00Z")
Rage Against the Machine: Instead of “We’re the renegades of funk”, I usually sing “with a redneck case of funk” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/133 "2012-05-07T20:55:47Z")
A couple classics: _R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Takin’ PCP_ _I’d like to smoke with my baby tonight Have a toke with my baby tonight I’d like to smoke with my baby tonight Have a toke with my baby tonight But I’d be a joke with my baby tonight…_ ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/134 "2012-05-08T01:07:27Z")
From the Les Miserables sound track. The correct lyrics are “The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows if France.” My ten-year-old daughted innocently sang it “The blood of the Martians…” Now it’s Martians every time. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/135 "2012-05-08T01:19:55Z")
Just have to say this is one of the funniest threads ever! My husband came up with this one, to the disgust of our (female) offspring. To the tune of the Kris Kringle song from the old claymation Rudolph Christmas special: Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle Please don’t eat the yellow snow I had lots of coffee And I really had to go. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/136 "2012-05-08T14:14:42Z")
“And Then He Kissed Me” (old tune by The Crystals) is always “And Then He Kicked Me”. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/137 "2012-05-08T14:46:29Z")
“_Shout_” by Tears for Fears: Grout! Grout! Grout on the spout! The shower is the thing I’m talking about! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/138 "2012-05-08T14:56:12Z")
Winter’s here, the skies are gray Just last night I passed away Soon I’ll be under six feet of clay And I’ll never be lively any more. Because I’m… Goin’ to the chapel and I’m gonna get buried Goin’ to the chapel and I’m gonna get buried Gee I’m really dead now and I’m gonna get buried Goin’ to the **CHAPEL OF DEATH.** ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/139 "2012-05-08T15:34:39Z")
> [@limegreen](#): > > WHAT:eek::smack: Those aren’t the real words? I just googled it, and I’ve been singing it wrong all these years!! Me too, ours are better and I’d be happy to let England Dan know it. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/140 "2012-05-08T15:58:59Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I don’t care what anyone says, it’s “wrapped up like a douche.” Here, here! Agreed! And “Three young chickeetas in Omaha!” is actually “We were eating Cheetos in Omaha!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444.md?page=8)