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.
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)
“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.”
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
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.
We laugh and sing it as
I’ll be fatter when I’m older
I’ll have and entree with a side
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 *
all those parrot eyes
almost paradise
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.”
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!)
What is the name of the song, and who sings it?
*“Betcha, By Golly, Wow…”[/i ] is NOT “Catch a little polly-wog…”
Only took me over thirty years to figure that one out.
“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.
Luscious Jackson: “With my naked asshole the falling rain coming down on me”
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”
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.
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?
I was wonderinf why Huey Lewis wanted a new truck.
He wanted a new drug.
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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.
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?