Songs you misunderstood the lyrics to

[Turd Fergusson]

This has been on my mind for a while now. On the Thanksgiving show, the opening song was Cripple Creek, and for the first time in my life, I heard the words: "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."

I'm 33 years old and until that day I would have told you the words were "A TRUCKER'S dream....". Well, it's a little embarrassing when you discover the words to a song are completely different than you thought, and clearly I'm an idiot, but I thought it might spark some good discussion. What are some songs/lines you always thought were different than they turned out to be?

[west milly Tom]

In the song "brick house" I thought the chorus lyric "mighty mighty" was "she's high karate" for years. And it was embarrassing the way I found out the true lyric. The black gentlemen in my crew at work still laugh about it.

[instrument]

Sgt. Mary.

[moochcassidy]

farewell Rodrigo..Days whne the rain came

[bigtim666]

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57898&

[PapaBear]

It's like I told you, only the lonely get laid.
(Never understood how lonely people were getting laid all the time)



All the way a paperback was on my knee.
(I guess Paul needed something to read on the way to the USSR)


Down at the Sausage Grill.

[PapaBear]

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57898&
Yeah. I've more in that thread. Pork chop is my favorite.

[bigtim666]

i always laugh about sweet loreta martin

[PapaBear]

From what I've heard, Charles Manson had a slight misunderstanding with the lyrics to Helter Skelter. He probably just had dust on the stylus or something.

[Yosammity]

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.
Four hundred children and a crop in the field.

[underdog]

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[ChrisBrown]

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.
Four hundred children and a crop in the field.

What's the real lyrics then? that's what I thought it was.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i was driving somewhere with a friend and "Riders on the Storm" is on the radio and that idiot goes to me "I always wondered, whose Hector Alamone?" I'm like "what?" and he goes "the song lyrics, it says 'like a dog without a bone or Hector Alamone".

This asshole was dead serious too

[walking joint]

just about every song i've ever heard I can list here. i usually like my lyrics better anyway.

[west milly Tom]

i was driving somewhere with a friend and "Riders on the Storm" is on the radio and that idiot goes to me "I always wondered, whose Hector Alamone?" I'm like "what?" and he goes "the song lyrics, it says 'like a dog without a bone or Hector Alamone".

This asshole was dead serious too



I seriously saw a business man having a breakdown waiting for the C train @33rd St. He was screaming the lyrics to Riders on the Storm, and half of them were wrong. He's going "Into the house we go!" and other such misquotes. I wasn't about to tell him he was wrong.

[ANC]

Huey Lewis "Because the heart of Rock and Roll is in Cleveland..."

[realmenhatelife]

Winter Wonderland, I used to think "He'll say 'are you married' we'll say 'no, man. but you can do the job when you're in town'' I didnt realize she was talking to a traveling priest, I thought she was telling a guy that he could bang her like he has her husband when he was in town.

[Jujubees2]

Louie, Louie

[Hepcat22]

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.
Four hundred children and a crop in the field.

The exact lyric I was going to post when I saw this thread.

[ozzie]

Louie, Louie

http://videodetective.com/photos/029/00122208_.jpg

it"s a sea chanty.

[Jujubees2]

Louie, Louie

http://videodetective.com/photos/029/00122208_.jpg

it"s a sea chanty.

Thanks. That makes sense.

[drjoek]

Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street.

[Freitag]

"When I Grow Up" by the Pussycat Dolls. The less said, the better.

[ANC]

When I was young, I thought the first line to Iron Man were "Ozzy lost his mind, can he see or is he blind?"

[Liverspot]

A portly kid I went to high school with earned the name "thunder cheeks" after drunkenly singing "dirty deeds thunder cheeks"

[Snoogans]

This has been on my mind for a while now. On the Thanksgiving show, the opening song was Cripple Creek, and for the first time in my life, I heard the words: "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."

I'm 33 years old and until that day I would have told you the words were "A TRUCKER'S dream....". Well, it's a little embarrassing when you discover the words to a song are completely different than you thought, and clearly I'm an idiot, but I thought it might spark some good discussion. What are some songs/lines you always thought were different than they turned out to be?

I just want to commend you on the AWESOME screen name




Pick....pick swords

[Snoogans]

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[Turd Fergusson]

I just want to commend you on the AWESOME screen name




Pick....pick swords

Yeah that's right....Turd Fergusson....it's a funny name.

[Sky Albino]

i was driving somewhere with a friend and "Riders on the Storm" is on the radio and that idiot goes to me "I always wondered, whose Hector Alamone?" I'm like "what?" and he goes "the song lyrics, it says 'like a dog without a bone or Hector Alamone".

This asshole was dead serious too

I always thought they said "If you give this man a ride sweet mammal he will die" instead of sweet memory will die LOL.

[blakesnake00]

Its four HUNGRY children and the crops in the field,not four hundred.When I was a young kid the beach boys 'help me rhonda' I thought they were saying "debbie rogers,dep deb debbie rogers" hahaaaaaa .Sing it and see how much of a dumb young dufuss I was.Merry Christmas kids !!!!

[patrick187]

reved up like a douche.

[Coach]

Chocolate Chip City-Suffraget City
How's about a Date- Eyes without a Face

[denko]

nin terrible lie... i thought he was saying "turn out the light"

[lleeder]

I thought Suffragette City was whatsupwiturcity.

[GreatAmericanZero]

reved up like a douche.

yeah i still think they say that!

[TheGameHHH]

farewell Rodrigo..Days whne the rain came

i always thought i had it right with 'hey there amigo.....days when the rain came'

[No1Throwdown]

Lay Low, got me on my knees, Lay Low

its Leighla... whoops :sleep:

[CHUCKWAGONCOOK]

In Elton Johns song "Tiny Dancer" I always thought he said "Hold me closer Tony Danza"

Yeah, I know.

[Coach]

Bad moon on the rise- Bathroom on the right
Doctor Feelgood-I don't feel good

[RoseBlood]

lotta evedder talk tonight..
Pearl Jam - "Black"
thought he said "her legs spread out before me"

[hedges]

Did it ever get resolved if the lyrics are "Take a load off Fannie..." or "Take a load off Annie..." I always thought it was Fannie.

[Dr Steve]

Did it ever get resolved if the lyrics are "Take a load off Fannie..." or "Take a load off Annie..." I always thought it was Fannie.

Please someone resolve this one...every time I hear that song it drives me crazy. I always thought it was "Take a load off Manny"

[BlackSpider]

Please someone resolve this one...every time I hear that song it drives me crazy. I always thought it was "Take a load off Manny"

Frannie...

[hedges]

It's Fanny. Well I'm glad that's over with.

[Coach]

Please someone resolve this one...every time I hear that song it drives me crazy. I always thought it was "Take a load off Manny"
Mammie?

[Slumbag]

Lay Low, got me on my knees, Lay Low

its Leighla... whoops :sleep:

I always thought it was "Hey Love, you got me on my knees", when I was a kid.

A couple of Tool lyrics have gotten me.
I misheard "Sober" a lot when I was younger. And me and a friend eventually had to look up "The Pot" lyrics online so we could quit arguing about it

[donnie_darko]

White Stripes Hello Operator

"tell me oscillator"

line is

"Turn the oscillator"

[smiler grogan]

As a kid the Pointer sisters sang "He's so Shy" I thought it was "Keystone Dodge". A car dealership in PA logical to a ten yr. old

[hedges]

"wrapped up like a douche" is really "revved up like a deuce" referring to the 1932 Ford deuce coupe

[hedges]

Mammie?

Fanny. I saw it on the internet so it's true. This isn't Al Jolson.

[patrick187]

excuse me while I kiss this guy.

[midwestjeff]

Breathe. Spit. Walk.

What did you say?

Re...Spect. Walk.

Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?


As a young boy my friends made big fun of me for yelling out the first line as we walked down the street. I still bare the emotional scars.
And they still bare the physical ones for trying to take me down a peg. I used to be an Alpha male. Now, I'm just a sissy.

[A.J.]

"When I Grow Up" by the Pussycat Dolls. The less said, the better.

I heard that song all the time in Doha on the English-language station. Are you referring to the "I wanna have groupies" line?

[britneypablo]

i havent seen if anyone posted this...but i love it....i die when it spoofs "also into cats"

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[cougarjake13]

anything by nirvana

[meanmrbill]

When it came out 150 years ago I thought "Little Red Corvette" was "Little babe come on back"

[hedges]

Jack and Diane

"Dribble off those Bobby brooks, let me do what I please."

I never had a misconception of these lyrics, I guess I never thought about it much. Now that I know what the lyrics are, I can honestly say I don't what they mean. Some item of clothing
maybe?

[jojogun357]

In West End towns, with denim walls................West End Girls.