Misheard Lyrics

[Bomber]

We've all heard songs on the radio, and thought to ourselves, 'what the heck where they saying?'. We've even sung them out loud and suffered acute embarrasment as others laugh at our flawed lines. I'm talking about misheard lyrics, people. List a few below so we can all have a few belly laughs.

Advance Australia Fair
<u>Proper Words:</u>Our land is girt by sea
<u>My Words:</u> Our land is dirt by sea

Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> Who's going to save me?
<u>My Words:</u> Who's going to shave me?

Sell My Soul - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> I just want to celebrate
<u>My Words:</u>I want to be celibate

Arctic World - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u>I want to meet the president of a country without sense
<u>My Words</u>: I want to be the president of a country without sex

 

[Bomber]

Here's a few more.....

Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
<u>Proper Words:</u>Pissing the night away...
<u>My Words:</u> Piss in the microwave....

Khe Sahn - Cold Chisel
<u>Proper Words:</u>The legal pads were yellow, hours long, pay packets lean
<u>My Words:</u> The legal crap raged on, I was some place packing meat

Suicide Blonde - INXS
<u>Proper Words:</u>....Suicide Blonde
<u>My Words:</u> ....Soup and Salad Bar

 

[legend]

Mate I have had heps of those. I'll try and remember some. Yours are funny though.

 

[imported_Roopy4246]

My father was in the Kings choir when he was a boy in Cambridge, England in the late 1930's. He used to tell the story of how the boys would amuse themselves during long hours of practice by making up subsitute phrases for the songs they were singing and they would often drop some really smutty lines into songs during concerts. People would hear the line but think they must have been mistaken - the little angels in the choir couldn't do that, could they?

 

[mud n blood]

In Our Lips Are Sealed by the Go-go's,
I always thought the line was "Alex the seal" .....

When I first heard Back in Black by ACDC,
I thought it said "'Coz I got hairstyle that'll never die" ....

will think of some more !!!

 

[G@v]

When I was about 2 or 3 like most tweenies I was famous for singing the wrong lyrics.

<u>Cliff Richard - The Young One's</u>
Proper lyrics: Oh my darling can't you see-ee-ee-ee
Mine: Old Macdonald can't you see-ee-ee-ee............hee hee
Well it was around the same time as Old Macdonald had a farm on all that.

 

[Johnsy]

I am sure I am not the only one to sing these words to this song.

Skin deep by the saints

Real words
Better watch out for the skin deep.

My words
Better watch out for the schoolies.

Johnsy

 

[El Duque]

I have no idea what the frig James Reyne says and I just make up sounds that pass for words(maybe that's what he's doing?)
I can't type his lyrics(don't know them)or mine(because they aren't actually words).

 

[Bomber]

Trugaini - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> I see Namijira in custody, I see Turgainini in chains
<u>My Words:</u> I see Namijira in Tuscany, I see Trugainini in France

 

[El Duque]

This isn't really misheard but changed round(sounds better)

Lets Hang On!-Barry Manilow
Real Words-Let's hang on to what we got Don't let go girl, we got a lot

My Words-Let's hang on to what we got,two big balls and a hairy cock.

We used to sing this on the bus when I was at primary school and it would piss the driver off to the max.

 

[Bomber]

Some more Oils....

Burnie- Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> The tide forever beckons you to leave
<u>My Words:</u> The typhoid ever beckons you to bleed

Hercules- Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> Here comes the Hercules, here comes the submarines
<u>My Words:</u> Here comes the herpes, here comes the vaccines.

Brave Faces - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> They're all talking shit to me
<u>My Words:</u> They all smell like shit to me

Tin Legs and Tin Mines - Midnight Oil
<u>Proper Words:</u> I'm going to wait till we all stop from running
<u>My Words:</u> I'm going to wait till the Austrians start running


And the Dog sat on the tuckerbox...
<u>Proper Words:</u> And the dog sat on the tuckerbox five miles from Gundagai
<u>My Words:</u> And the dog shat on the tuckerbox five miles from Gundagai

 

[Hass]

This one's not mine, it was my goofy uncle's. We ridiculed him about it for ages....

Devil Inside- INXS
<u>Proper Words:</u>The devil inside, the devil inside, every single one of us the devil inside
<u>Rob'sWords:</u> Seven-a-Side, Seven-a-Side, every single one of us plays Seven-a-Side

A classic if ever I've seen one.

P.S. How many people get the words to Khe Sanh wrong?

<u>Proper Words:</u>The last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
<u>WrongWords:</u> The last train out of Sydney's almost gone


You wouldn't believe how many people took me to task when I said it was plane!

Cheers.

 

[Hass]

Oh, just remembered one of my own gaffes.....

Psycho Killer- TALKING HEADS
<u>Proper Words:</u>Psycho Killer Qu'est Que C'est
<u>MyWords:</u> Pscycho Killer, here to stay

which I followed up with

<u>Proper Words:</u>Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better, run run run run run run run away
<u>MyWords:</u> Boom boom ba boom boom boom ba boom, Psycho Killer run my way

Cheers

 

[imported_eels fan...]

Hass...
I've had the same argument many times. The bit I find really stupid is the (first time its said) next line after that is " Only 7 flying hours, &amp; I'll be landing in Hong Kong". Call me stupid but last I knew, trains DONT fly!

 

[imported_footy2k]

lol bomber, you are imaginative.

I remember The Chilli Peppers " Scar Tissue " had everyone guessing at the chorus: " With the birds I share this lonley view "

I thought it was " I shed with birds in the afternoon "

Theres heaps more I, but I'm just not thinking at the moment. Dammit