Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.
It’s far less hard core that way.
Like at least try to get one rock in during the afternoon
Don’t skip roll day though or you’ll regret it later.
I have to admit, getting a rock n roll nap in is pretty good.
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My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.
Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”
That’s such a popular one that there’s a misheard lyrics site named kissthisguy.com
Another popular one is There’s a bathroom on the right=There’s a bad moon on the rise.
You’re correct, he started occasionally singing “kiss this guy” live after someone pointed the mondegreen out to him and he found it really funny.
Billy Jean is not my lover
She’s just a girl that thinks that I am the one
But
The chair is not my size
Dirty deeds and the THUNDER CHIEF
Dirty deeds DONE WITH SHEEP
BAaaaaaaa means no.
BAaaaaaaa also means yes.
That was for the NZ market
& Welsh
You got a thing for ewes
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE. WE ARE BONDED BY FATE. Lmao
THUNDER CHEESE
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I love the Rolling Stones, but no one can understand a word Mick sings. I have alternate lyrics for all my favorite Stones songs - Gimme Shelter, Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women…
When I was about 10, instead of “smoke two joints”, I thought it was “spoke to Joyce”.
I spoke Joyce in the morning I spoke to Joyce at night I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon it makes me feel alright I spoke to Joyce in time of peace and too in time of war I spoke to Joyce before I spoke to Joyce and then I spoke some more I spoke to Joyce when I get up In the car I spoke to Joyce I spoke to Joyce when I play videogames and at every 10,000 points I spoke to Joyce!My mom laughed for 5 full minutes when I told her.
makes it sound more like a love song
When I was a kid I heard The Go-Go’s Our Lips Are Sealed as “Alex the seal”.
Doesn’t matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Alex the seal
I thought it was about a sad bullied seal.
Jeff Davis of Who’s Line is it Anyway has a story about a friend of his mishearing “reach down, ease the seat back” in Van Halen’s Panama as “reach down, ease the seed bag”, as in adjusting his nuts. Always cracks me up when I think of that or hear the song
What have I become my Swedish friend?
Chevelle - self destructor
*Go fight yourself" I somehow heard “go bite your tongue” Which is a form of suicide requiring extreme will. It made sense that the person in the song is so dead set they’d rather die than fail/admit they are wrong.
Probs a common one but when ever Blinded By The Light came on I only heard “woke up like a douche” instead of “revved up like a deuce”
I heard, “Wrapped up like a douche,” which always went well with misunderstanding the lyric after it, “Another rumor in the night.” (Correct line is “Another runner in the night.”)
I only knew about ‘deuce’ as a synonym for poop, when I first heard the song, which made it very confusing.
Turns out it’s a pretty versatile word.
Deuce = 2, or a “number 2”. Pretty sure that’s why we use it for poop
Yeah that’s what I found out. Figured Bruce Springsteen want writing songs about nighttime shitting.
Bruce’s version lyrics are “… cut loose like a deuce” which sounds wayyyyy more intentionally like taking a shit
I thought the velvet underground “run run run” was
Run run run run run take your jacket too
Instead of “take a drag or two”
Good advice when it’s cold out!
Well I know how I’m singing this song from now on.
FYi, these are called Mondegreens after a famous song that was mis-heard by pretty much everyone. I think it was Welsch.
Mine is England Dan and John Ford Coley’s I’d really love to see you tonight.
Thought he sang, “I’m not talkin bout my linen.”
Instead of, "I’m not talkin bout movin in "
Made up a whole story in my mind about how they met in a Laundromat.
Hendrix’s “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” is a pretty famous one
“Sharp dressed man” always heard it as “Shy best man” this may have had a minor counterproductive impact on my behavior when I was a teenager.
Every woman loves a shard glass man
What you thought it was a song about being popular with bridesmaids?
No, my stupidity went further than that, “best man” was just “good guy”
Not a mondegreen, but I like to sing it as “Shark dressed man.”
Ever since I was a kid I thought in Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive” he sang “on a stale horse I ride”. I figured he had been riding his horse out in the desert a long time, it’s all tired, no water… yeah it’s a stale horse. My partner will never let me live it down.
Also my niece and nephew thought Lady Gaga sang “I don’t want to be French” instead of “I don’t want to be friends” in Bad Romance. It fit too, as she sings in French right before that.
