Mis-heard or just wrong song lyrics

[VaDirt]

OK, I'll try and start a new one. Song lyrics that are misheard, or lyrical content that is just wrong.


Credence Clearwater Revival (written by Ledbelly): Cotton Fields

It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana

Sorry, but the Louisiana border is over 20 miles from Texarcana.

 

[Benevolent One]

Modern Day Bonnie And Clyde

by Travis Tritt

I don't have personal knowledge of this, but I've heard that the following lines of the song are geographically incorrect.

Well It's a long way to Richmond, rollin' north on 95

&

We met at truck stop, Johnson City, Tennessee

 

[Greg]

Elton John

Hold me close tiny dancer
Heard as

Hold me closer Tony Danza

 

[Greg]

Keith Whitley 'don't close your eyes'

better

'Don't close your thighs'

 

[Greg]

Carly Simon 'your so vain they will probably do next song without you'

Better 'Kurt Cobain they will probably the next song without you'

 

[VaDirt]

Elton John

Hold me close tiny dancer
Heard as

Hold me closer Tony Danza

Bhahahahaha!

 

[VaDirt]

How about the most famous of them:

Jimi Hendrix:
Excuse me while I kiss this guy

 

[Greg]

Bhahahahaha!

It is not original, I have to admit that I read it from another person on the net.

 

[VaDirt]

Credence Clearwater Revival: There's a bathroom on the right

 

[Greg]

Credence Clearwater Revival: There's a bathroom on the right

Do do dodo looking out my backdoor

 

[kkfan91]

Modern Day Bonnie And Clyde

by Travis Tritt

I don't have personal knowledge of this, but I've heard that the following lines of the song are geographically incorrect.

Well It's a long way to Richmond, rollin' north on 95

&

We met at truck stop, Johnson City, Tennessee

Yeah 95 doesn't even go through Tennessee

 

[kkfan91]

Truck Yeah by Tim McGraw

"Friday Night Football, Saturday Last Call, Sunday Hallelujah"

I always heard it as Saturday NASCAR, which never made sense to me since most are on sunday.

 

[Benevolent One]

"On a lonely highway, stuck out in Lorain"

from George Strait's Carryin' Your Love With Me

Lorain is a city up in my neck of the woods. It's just outside of Cleveland

 

[Benevolent One]

Oh, and the ever popular

"Fred, don't take her she's all I got"

by the immortal Johnny Paycheck

 

[VaDirt]

From U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love) a song about Martin Luther King

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky

King was actually shot just after 6 PM.

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[BobbyFord]

Lovesick redneck song by Sinead O'Conner...
"Nothing Compares To Ewe"

 

[Clutch]

Lovesick redneck song by Sinead O'Conner...
"Nothing Compares To Ewe"

Thats how we've always interpereted the words down here.....

Just like that other song...Hey you, get off of my cloud.

We read that as ....Hey McLoud, Get off of my Ewe!

 

[Greg]

Manfred Manns Earth Band

... Blinding by the light,
wrapped up like a DOUCHE
another RUNNY one in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's going make it through the night
BUTT mama that's were the fun is

 

[Greg]

The Eagles


.. So put me on the highway and show me the sign
take it to the limit one more time

Heard as

***** on the highway and show me the sign, take it to the limit one more time

(by the way Randy Messiner sp? did the vocals, one their few big ones without Frey or Henley doing the lead vocals)

 

[VaDirt]

Manfred Manns Earth Band

... Blinding by the light,
wrapped up like a DOUCHE
another RUNNY one in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's going make it through the night
BUTT mama that's were the fun is

I knew better, but I've always sung it this way.

 

[Greg]

Jet city woman by Queensryche heard as
"Conceited Woman"

The first time I heard with freinds and was distracted, got it right later on.

 

[Tennessee Racing]

I'm Shameless by Garth Brooks but I heard it as I'm shaving.

Single White Female but I heard it as single wide female.

 

[Greg]

I'm Shameless by Garth Brooks but I heard it as I'm shaving.

Single White Female but I heard it as single wide female.

Well that's better than being a double wide female.

 

[be9ak7ts16]

Johnny Cash Ring of Fire as sung by my daughter, And the birds, birds, birds, they caught on fire./

 

[pjmolo]

Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers heard as Secret Asian Man

 

[aunty dive]

Well that's better than being a double wide female.

Apparently your member has been deleted.

Shouldn't you have that looked at?

 

[Magicmiler]

"Oh Tannembaum " heard as "Atomic bomb"...