Yeah, I always heard 'armor>
But back to "They call me Mellow Yellow- “I’m just mad about Fourteen, she’s just mad about me” (actually it appears Donovan is supposedly singing “Fontine”: according to some sources. Of course “Fourteen” sounds a little creepy.
Before my time. Never saw it. Never would have heard of it, except for Stand By Me (and previously seeing business cards).
I’ve always heard it as I’m just mad about Saffron, And she’s just mad about me, which is apparently correct.
That is true, but that is another verse entirely.
It is still on in reruns, and one of the best westerns on TV.
Seriously? Fontine? Today I learned…
I still think Stevie Nicks is singing about the one-winged dove.
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids
And man, I don’t need a hamster nursery
What is the one above?
My guess is Middle of the Road, by the Pretenders?
And man, I don’t mean a Hampstead nursery
Thank you! I knew it sounded familiar.
Yes, it would be helpful to identify the song, the actual lyric(s) and the misheard lyric(s). For example (from the OP):
Maybe people could post their misheard lyrics and below that “spoiler” the correct lyrics. That way we could try to guess them.
Sorry, yes that’s from The Pretenders. To be fair, all those years that I thought it was a scathing critique of capitalist excess in the face of abject poverty perfectly fits with the rest of the lyrics.
From the same song:
“I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me”
My brain tends to hear:
“I’m standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me”
Definitely “pants”.
Not misheard exactly, but I recently asked someone who knew better than me what was that happy opera song you hear a lot in commercials and stuff that starts ‘Don Donny Moby laid’?
I have no idea what song you’re talking about. The only ‘opera song’ that comes to mind is in the J.G. Wentworth commercials.
It’s La Donna e Mobile from Rigotello. After I found out the name I found a very young, yet still quite rotund, Pavarotti enjoying the heck out of singing it. I’d link but I’m on my very old notepad and I don’t know how.
Thanks!
Here for those who don’t know like me.
‘Lost stolen or slain’
James James Morrison’s mother
She seems to have been mislain.
The Chad Mitchell Trio’s “James James Morrison Morrison” – A A Milne’s poem “Disobedience” set to music. The correct words are strayed and mislaid.
Sixpence None The Richer, Kiss Me.
What I hear in that opening line (and anytime it repeats) is “Kiss Me, under the beans and barley”. Even when I first misheard that, I knew it was wrong but I had no idea what she was saying and there’s a local store called ‘beans and barley’ so my brain subbed in that instead. That song is pushing 30 years old (jesus christ that made me feel old) and it’s only in the last year or two that I finally got around to looking it up. I think even if I clearly heard her say “out on the bearded barley” I still would’ve assumed I misheard it. Bearded barley just isn’t a term I’d heard before I looked up the lyrics.
For those that don’t know:
Barley:
Bearded Barley:
