As suggested by KHS68, let’s do a music time blog about Mistaken Lyrics.
With the internet we can simply look up the lyrics to most popular songs (not that all the lyrics found are correct). But in the olden days, we had to listen good. And if you were listening to the song on the radio – you had one chance to catch the words.
Whenever I bought a new album, the first thing I looked for was the lyrics printed on the record sleeve. The Japanese albums had all the lyrics printed right inside the album cover – although it was printed in Japanese. See, Japanese school did come in handy. Too bad I never learned how to read kanji.
But small kid time, we didn’t have the internet to look up the lyrics. I pretty much just sang what I heard.
For example, it wasn’t until I got married and Paula told me the correct words for this KGMB clip. I used to sing it as:
“Waaa naaa kuku-iiiiiii,
Above Hawaaaaiiiiiii,
Is wonderful KGMB”
Of course, now I know it’s:
“One of the good things,
About Hawaii,
Is wonderful KGMB”
On a previous blog, I had posted in the comments of another song that I never got the words right – Blinded By The Light:
“Blinded by the light, Wrapped up like a douche you know the roller in the night”
and
“…and little early burly gave my anus curly wurly and asked me if I needed a ride“.
How about On and On by Stephen Bishop:
“So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky,
Puts on some natural and starts to cry…”
Okay, obviously it’s “Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry”. Another one that Paula told me.
Here’s a popular one – Rocket Man by Elton John
“Rocket man, burning all the fuel over everyone”
“Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone”
But this one takes the case – the epitome of Mistaken Lyrics
I know there’s a whole lot more – just can’t think of them right now. What are some of your Mistaken Lyrics songs?
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Busy Friday coming up (10/5) – Take you pick:
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