misunderstood lyrics

[DZHBrown]

Originally posted by PiKA2001
Ha AH! I was at the bar with some of my buddies last week and Missy Elliot came on
" is it worth it, let me work it, put my thing down flip it and reverse it"
Well after that she starts mumbling in backwards, but my buddy was singing along like " and kitty works the pity when wet"

That's hilarious! It actually does sound like that, though! haha

[IheartAST129]

My favorite one is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"

"Hold me close young Tony Danza"

[ADPiSAI]

Originally posted by IheartAST129
My favorite one is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"

"Hold me close young Tony Danza"

the first time my best friend/roommate played that freshman year (it's her favourite song), I thought the same thing!!

[tinydancer]

Originally posted by IheartAST129
My favorite one is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"

"Hold me close young Tony Danza"

HAHAHAHA

Also, "Hold me close, I'm tryin' to dance, sir!"

[adpishan]

Originally posted by IheartAST129
My favorite one is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"

"Hold me close young Tony Danza"

Every time that song comes on, I think of the Friends episode where Pheobe says that... hehehehehe

[bafromkc]

One of the most misunderstood lyric has to be in Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze."

He sings: "Excuse me while I kiss the sky"

It sounds like: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"

Now it makes sense though because I'm pretty sure Jimi didn't play for that team.

[sigmagrrl]

Originally posted by IheartAST129
My favorite one is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"

"Hold me close young Tony Danza"

That's what Phoebe on "Friends" thought he was saying too!!LOL

[moe.ron]

For Scarlet Begonia by the Grateful Dead

I thought they wrote:
"In the thick of the evening when the dealer got robbed"
Instead it's:
"In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough"

[AlphaFrog]

What makes me go HUH? is when people mishear the NAME OF THE SONG!!! I guess that's why "Bad Moon on the Rise" and stuff like that drive me nuts...if you flip your CD case over, or listen to the little announcer dude on the radio, you'll have it right.....

[/stupid 8am rant]

[Senusret I]

On Fergie's new song London Bridge, she says "How come."

I thought she was saying "popcorn."

[carnation]

Y'all didn't know that these misheard lyrics are called mondegreens....

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


A mondegreen (also sometimes spelled "mondagreen") is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase, such that it acquires a new meaning.
Y'all didn't know that these misheard lyrics are called mondegreens....

The word "mondegreen" is itself a mondegreen. The American writer Sylvia Wright coined it in an essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", which was published in Harper's Magazine in Nov. 1954. She wrote

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques. One of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray, [sic]
And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual line is "And laid him on the green", from the anonymous 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray". Wright gives other examples of what she says, "I shall hereafter call mondegreens," such as:

* Surely Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life ("Surely goodness and mercy…" from Psalm 23)

* the "wild, strange battle cry Haffely, Gaffely, Gaffely, Gonward." ("Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward," from "The Charge of the Light Brigade")

The columnist Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle has long been a popularizer of the term and a collector of mondegreens. He may have been the chief link between Wright's work and the general popularity of the notion today.

While mondegreens are a common occurrence for children, many adults have their own collection, particularly with regard to popular music.

[kansas13]

My friend and I, when we were little, always thought the Janet Jackson song, "Miss You Much" said "I miss your nuts" instead of "I miss you much." I still laugh to this day about that mistake.

The same friends brother thought that Paul Youngs song "Everytime You Go Away" said "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you," when it really said, "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you." This one was on www.kisstheguy.com!

[JonInKC]

Originally Posted by LuaBlanca

i'm pretty good w/ lyric comprehension- but i have to include one that my friends 7-year-old sister was singing one day

It was Macy Gray's "I Try" and the REAL lyrics are:

"My world CRUMBLES when you are not near."

Well little Danielle was singing:

"I blow BUBBLES when you are not near."

I nearly DIED laughing.

I actually thought that was what it was saying too for a while, I thought what a stupid f'in song...

[whiteandblack]

In Guy's song, "you can have a piece of my love", in the intro it sounds like he's saying dumb bi***.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

...if you flip your CD case over, or listen to the little announcer dude on the radio, you'll have it right.....

Of course, many radio stations don't have the little announcer dude any more.

Remember "Saturday Night Fever"? For a while there, Ms. MysticCat was convinced that "More Than a Woman" was "Bald-Headed Woman."

I am not making that up.