Everyone knows some one that stands by a lyric that they think is right. My friend Darcee used to say: “Well, that’s how I say it” Used to drive me BATS!!
Her best one (of many) was Aerosmiths Walk This Way:
“Born to sway
Born to sway…”
Kristin was convinced that Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was
Dirty deeds THUNDER JEEP…
And the link to the Mailbag Answer is: What is Aretha singing is “Respect”?
I’m personally getting a kick out of the link to a Copyright violating page after Manhattan reprimanded me (called me a jerk) and locked the thread after my linking to a page which described the extraction of LSA (a level III controlled substance!) from Morning Glory seeds.
Course, posting instructions on such a subject is hardly illegal, lyrics sites, on the other hand, get pulled down all the time.
Ah well, I’ll get over it.
I like my wife’s version of the Beatle’s lyric; “When I’m six feet four”.
And the archetype Jimi Hendrix misinterpretation: “'Scuse me while I kiss this guy”.
Speaking of which, http://www.kissthisguy.com/
I often though a great trivia challenge was “name a song with ‘rhododendron’ in it.” The answer, of course…
Pearl Jam’s Daughter…
After several months, I realized it was “center of her own attention.”
The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll periodically publishes a column on the subject of ‘Mondegreens’ or misheard lyrics. They are often screamingly funny.
Check out his Mondegreen page at http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml
Rick
A great one from Musical theatre:
Send in the Clown’s has the lyrice:
Don’t you love farce/My fault I fear.
Heard as
Don’t you love farts/My fart I fear.
Kyberneticist, maybe because there’s a big difference between a site that lists the complete lyrics of a song and a site that says:
I randomly clicked on at least 50 of the links available on that page and all but 1 of them had less than 10 words of actual lyrics. The one exception had 19 words.