carni 10,094 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 I have just found out after 30yrs of belting out Karma Chameleon at boozy woozy get togethers and any where it took my fancy,according to my 12yrs old granddaughter that the last two lines of the chorus is Red Gold and Green and not In Golden Dreams as i have been singing,I bet there have been a few nudges and nods in my direction.LOL Any one else had this embarrassment,Just do what i did and say,I knew really I was just testing.LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 SWMBO used to sing the line (from lay lady lay) that should have been ; lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed...........as; lay lady lay, lay across my big breasts bare!!.......not had the heart to tell her............................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 Listen to 'BIG LOVE' by Fleetwood Mac.....bet you hear 'Fishfinger love' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 HaHa,I'm not alone then, We never could tell what Procol Harem were singing in Whiter Shade of Pale,in the line after The Miller told his tale,so we sang That a face as Burs just coshie? now know it is That Her Face At First Just Ghostly You gotta Laugh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,690 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 The one I always got wrong was Hermans Hermits and She's a Must To Avoid . I thought they sang She's a Muscular Guy ! ( In my defence , there were a few trans-gender songs about at the time ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 The Girl is Mine by Michael Jackson, I thought the first line was 'Every time I wash my underpants' And in The Green Grass of Home, I thought Tom was singing Pair of golden lips like cherries, but it's Hair of gold, and lips like cherries. I could never work out how she had golden lips. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G.I.Rocheque 1 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 I could never understand why Hot Chocolate in "You Sexy Thing" started the song with "I believe in Milko". As well as this I must admit to not understanding any of the lyrics to "The Israelites" by Desmond Dekker at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,690 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 Agree with you on the Desmond Decker tune ! Another one for me was Gimme Shelter by the Stones . But it was the fabulous straining backing vocal of Merry Clayton who I always thought sang : " Poor Mick Taylor is just a shout away " instead of "War , children , is just a shot away" Well Mick Taylor was in the group ! Merry Clayton doing the whole song : Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 In the Sound of Music,The song titled The Lonely Goatherd,in the line High on a hill stood a lonely goatherd My husband has always sang High on a hill stood a lonely soldier (bless) Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Everlasting Love by Love Affair, first line' Hearts go astray' sounds totally different to me, possibly unprintable here for tender ears, and those who like myself have lead a sheltered life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 In "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, one of the lines is most definitely: "I know that the hot dogs go on"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 When the going gets Tough sounds like ' go and get stuffed ' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 In Shania Twain's "Feel Like a Woman" there is a line that sounds like "men in short, short skirts"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Gorranuthaunfaya BUMP My son, who is very much a heavy rock fan,gave me this for you rockers. In Ozzy Osbournes song Bark At The Moon,my laddo has always belted out.....Years spent in Torment Buried in a neighbors grave If you listen carefully it should be....Buried in a nameless grave HaHaHa how uncool is that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 In one of Jimmy Hendrix songs he sings "scuse me while i kiss the sky" i thought it was scuse me while i kiss this guy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 On around 2.50 of the Frankie Valli song "My eyes adored you" it sounds like he sings "I wont ever forget you My Chocolate friend" when it's actually "My Childhood Friend" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 I've got a list of 'mis-heard lyrics' somewhere. Mostly fairly rude, but all very funny. Do you remember the Maxell adverts - where they had people holding up what they thought were the lyrics to songs. Desmond Dekker's 'The Israelite' became 'Me ears are alight'. And 'Into The Valley' by The Skids (which you can't decipher at the best of times due to Richard Jobson's attempt at an american accent): Into the valleyPeas sure sound devineThat Sissy Suffered YouBut who can Viv IronThe Soldiers Go MarchingThere's masses of Lamb..... Worth having a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAsmf1LGcpA One I particularly like is 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash which becomes: 'I Can Deidrie now Lorraine has gone, I can see all lobsters in the bay'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 In a slightly different setting, a friend who worked at Derby Loco works said that when he was little, on Sunday afternoons his mother used to take him to a service at a local Methodist chapel. Well-heated chapel and roast beef and Yorkshire pudding would take their toll on concentration spans, but he enjoyed the hymn singing. There was a hymn that was often sung, containing the line "Weak and sinful though we be..." - which George always thought was "We can sing, full though we be." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 So after all these years of singing 'Lucy in Disguise with diamonds' i have just been told by my grand-daughter, once again, i have got it wrong, "Nannar its Lucy in the sky with diamonds" OK ner ner na ner ner smarty pants. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,514 Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Carni, #19 ........... has she told you what Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds means too? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Just Googled it for the first time and realised why its not disguise,"oops".Sounds like how i spent most of the 60's; "not really only kidding." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 When I was little and we learned God Save The Queen in the infants, I thought we were singing, Send her Victorias, as in plums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 WHAT? You mean I've been singing the wrong words all these years? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 Have a listen to Police singing Message in a Bottle. The first line of the second verse it sounds like Sting sings....A year has passed since i broke my nose. Really is............................................................................A year has passed since i wrote my note Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 Have a listen to Police singing Message in a Bottle. The first line of the second verse it sounds like Sting sings....A year has passed since i broke my nose. Really is............................................................................A year has passed since i wrote my note on another police related song i always hear them sing " sue lawley sue lawley" in the song so lonely! and now you will too! another long time wrong lyric with me is toto's "rosanna" which i thought was about mr spock because, instead of - " Not quite a year since she went away, Rosanna yeah" i always heard- "got pointed ears since she went away, Rosanna yeah"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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