# Time for a new "Misheard lyrics" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380 "2006-07-20T19:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/41 "2006-07-21T23:26:51Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > This is an old one: In the Creedence song Bad Moon Risin’, the lyric “There’s a bad moon on the rise,” has often been nisinterpreted as “There’s a bathroom on the right.” > > So imagine my amusement when I watched John Fogerty performing this song on Live By Request. Fogerty is clearly heard at one point singing “There’s a bathroom on the right,” and conspicuously pointing offstage with his right hand. Then at the end of the song he adds, “And it really is on the right, too.” Nice to see he’s having fun with it. I’ve heard him do this joke twice so far and I’ll wager he does it again next week in Nashville. “'65 Love Affair” somehow turned into “six feet five lover man” in my fevered brain. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/42 "2006-07-21T23:47:55Z")
Here’s another lyric that probably everyone, myself included has misheard. Don’t bring me down, groos! Don’t bring me down, groos! From “Don’t Bring Me Down” by ELO. I’ve always heard the song as “Don’t bring me down, Bruce!” and wondered for a long time who the hell Bruce is. After looking it up on Wikipedia, I found out the word actually is “groos!” a word that Jeff Lynne apparently made up. [Don’t Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra song)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down_%28Electric_Light_Orchestra_song%29) “A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Jeff Lynne shouts “Bruce!”. However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word “Groos”. This is similar to a German word for “Greetings”, grüß.” ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/43 "2006-07-22T01:03:12Z")
In Elton John’s _Rocketman_: _Rocketmaaaaaaaaan… Burnin’ bag’o’douche on heaven’s lawn_ Apparently the real lyrics are “Burnin’ out his fuse up here alone”. I never would have guessed that in a million years. Then there was Edwin McCain’s _I’ll Be (Your Crying Shoulder)_ I thought it sounded a lot like “I’ll be your diet soda”. And now, a little John Fogerty trivia. Can anyone tell me what Credence Clearwater Revival hit features these lyrics? _Swedish a’ Hanukkah We can make music at the Krispy Kreme_ ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/44 "2006-07-22T01:13:55Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > _Swedish a’ Hanukkah > We can make music at the Krispy Kreme_ Sweet Hitchhiker! The song with the most mondegreens ever, I think. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/45 "2006-07-22T01:24:51Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Sweet Hitchhiker! The song with the most mondegreens ever, I think. Ooh, so close. Sorry, it was _Swedish a’ Hanukkah_, off 1972’s _Mardi Gras_, which also featured _Sunday Never Comes_. Better luck next time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/46 "2006-07-22T01:52:11Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > In Elton John’s _Rocketman_: > > _Rocketmaaaaaaaaan… > Burnin’ bag’o’douche on heaven’s lawn_ > > Apparently the real lyrics are “Burnin’ out his fuse up here alone”. I never would have guessed that in a million years. > > Then there was Edwin McCain’s _I’ll Be (Your Crying Shoulder)_ I thought it sounded a lot like “I’ll be your diet soda”. We laugh and sing it as _I’ll be fatter when I’m older I’ll have and entree with a side_ ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/47 "2006-07-22T01:56:30Z")
Hit submit by mistake. meant to add another one **Boston** _All I want is to have my piece of pie_ when if fact it is \*All I want is to have my peace of mind \* ---
**Author:** ![bloo-bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bloo-bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloo-bird)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/48 "2006-07-22T06:06:38Z")
all those parrot eyes almost paradise ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/49 "2006-07-22T06:09:23Z")
After having listened to the song “Money” by Pink Floyd hundreds of times it finally hit me. “_OH!_ They mean _that_ kind of football team.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/50 "2006-07-22T06:24:02Z")
Here’s an old one. When my daughter was about 5 or 6, watching re-runs of _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_, she turned and asked why Mary Tyler Moore was going naked. I admit, my ears perked up a bit, but of course, we asked what she meant and she told us it was from end of the theme song where they sing - “You’re going naked after all!” (You’re going to make it after all!) ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/51 "2006-07-22T12:17:50Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > I thought that the third line meant, to a teacher, having the kids thinking is a hazard. > > I still like my version better. What is the name of the song, and who sings it? ---
**Author:** ![Mnemonic\_Obstruction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@Mnemonic\_Obstruction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnemonic_Obstruction)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/52 "2006-07-22T14:30:45Z")
\*“Betcha, By Golly, Wow…”[/i] is NOT _“Catch a little polly-wog…”_ Only took me over thirty years to figure that one out. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/53 "2006-07-22T15:24:31Z")
“Precious and few are the moments we two can share” is not “Precious and few are the moments we toucans share.” Though I still hear it that way. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/54 "2006-07-22T15:27:54Z")
Luscious Jackson: _“With my naked asshole the falling rain coming down on me”_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/55 "2006-07-23T11:34:03Z")
I actually don’t think this is misheard. I actually believe that in Andy Gibb’s “Love Is Thicker Than Water” one of the times he says the line “You are. . . this dreamer’s only dream” that it actually comes out as “You are. . . the fish dreamer’s only dream” ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/56 "2006-09-07T12:55:07Z")
Yikes, I just realized I’d beeng singing “I’m the DJ” for 20 years. It’s “Hang the DJ” :smack: “I’m the DJ” makes no sense, and I should have realized this in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/57 "2006-09-07T13:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] I actually don’t think this is misheard. I actually believe that in Andy Gibb’s “Love Is Thicker Than Water” one of the times he says the line “You are. . . this dreamer’s only dream” that it actually comes out as “You are. . . the fish dreamer’s only dream” [/QUOTE] I really think the line is “Secret Asian Man”, too, once it was pointed out to me. How can it sound like that unless that’s what the singer was trying to sing? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/58 "2006-09-08T23:05:01Z")
I was wonderinf why Huey Lewis wanted a new truck. He wanted a new drug. hh ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/59 "2006-09-09T03:07:47Z")
I don’t actually know who the song is by, but you know that techno-y song that wails over and over again “I wanna be adored”? I’m still convinced he’s really saying “I wanna be your dog”. I just thought it was some freaky BDSM thing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380/60 "2006-09-09T03:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] Here’s another lyric that probably everyone, myself included has misheard. Don’t bring me down, groos! Don’t bring me down, groos! From “Don’t Bring Me Down” by ELO. I’ve always heard the song as “Don’t bring me down, Bruce!” and wondered for a long time who the hell Bruce is. After looking it up on Wikipedia, I found out the word actually is “groos!” a word that Jeff Lynne apparently made up. [Don’t Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra song)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down_%28Electric_Light_Orchestra_song%29) “A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Jeff Lynne shouts “Bruce!”. However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word “Groos”. This is similar to a German word for “Greetings”, grüß.” [/QUOTE] That’s not how I heard it. I heard he was singing “Don’t bring me down, Ruce.” And that Ruce was an ex-girlfriend’s name? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-new-misheard-lyrics-thread/365380.md?page=4)