Did You Ever Mis-Hear Lyrics in a Song?

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

Still love 50's & 60's music!
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There was 2 that I always misheard. In Sam Cooke's Twisting the Night Away, there's this line:
"He's dancing with the chick in slacks"

For years when I was singing along to the song, I sang this line: "He's dancing in chicken slacks". I always wondered what the heck is chicken slacks? Yellow and white trousers? When I was living in Syracuse, I heard the song on the radio, and I stopped singing for some reason, and for the first time, I heard Sam sing the actual line. Man, did I feel silly.

A British band called, Mungo Jerry had a song called In the Summertime. I could have sworn that the lead singer sang a rather naughty line:
"Sc_ _ w her along the lake, and be out a dollar twenty five. I always thought that was a rather cheap date.

The actual line that is sung in the song is: "Speed along the lane, do a turn, or return the twenty five." Being an American, when I finally found out the real lyrics, I didn't know what it meant. Doing a little research on line, I found 2 or 3 interpretations of what the line actually meant.
 

“Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”
Correct lyric from Robert Palmer’s ‘Addicted To Love’:
“Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love”

“It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not”
Correct lyric from Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer:'
“It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not”

“The girl with colitis goes by”
Correct lyric from The Beatles’
‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds:'
“The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
 
horseless carriage said:
“Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove”
Correct lyric from Robert Palmer’s ‘Addicted To Love’:
“Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love”

“It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not”
Correct lyric from Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer:'
“It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not”

“The girl with colitis goes by”
Correct lyric from The Beatles’
‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds:'
“The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
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Suddenly, Mungo Jerry doesn't seem so naughty.:ROFLMAO:
 

When my wife was a young girl she heard Bonnie Tyler sing "It's a Heartache" and said, "Why is this woman singing about a Hard Egg??"

:LOL:

I still get the giggles thinking about that whenever I hear the song!


(It's a Hard Egg...nothing but a Hard Egg) lol!
 
When my sisters and I were younger, my dad used to get us to entertain the visitors by singing "Irene Goodnight". We used to wonder why they started laughing, and they'd say, "Sing it again" and start laughing again. We said to Dad, we're not singing any more. It turned out I was singing the wrong words. Instead of "Sometimes I had a great notion, to jump in the river and drown", I was singing, "Sometimes I had a great motion, and jumped in the river to drown".
 
“I’ve got two chickens to paralise”
Correct lyric from Eddie Money’s ‘Two Tickets To Paradise”: “I’ve got two tickets to paradise”


“These ants are my friends, they’re blowin’ in the wind”
Correct lyric from Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’: “The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind”
 
I think the most famous misheard lyrics are...

Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
Sold out to every monk and beefhead
Oooooooh, me ears are alight!
Why find me kids, they buck up and a-leave me
Darling cheese head I was yards too greasy
Oooooooh! Me ears are alight!
or
Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
Sold out to every monk and beefhead
Oooooooh, me ears are alight!
Why find me kids, they buck up and a-leave me
'Darling', she said, 'I was yours to receive'
Oooooooh! Me ears are alight.

Original Lyrics...
Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Poor, poor me-Israelite.
My wife and ma kids dem pack up an' a leave me
'Darlin', she said, 'I was yours to be seen'
Poor, poor me-Israelite.


 
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