ya got a great car . the dandy warhols bohemian like you , i thought it said ya got a great cock.
A mondegreen, in case you didn't know, is a misheard lyric (the origin of the word is too boring to relate).
One of the most famous is from Purple Haze; Hendrix sings 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky', but people thought, and continue to think, he was singing 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy'.
In Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke the chorus is 'You can feel it all over' which sounds a lot like 'Dick and Phyllis are lovers' on the record.
And for Nationwide fans (remember Frank Boff?) the chorus of The Police's 'So Lonely' sounds an awful lot like Sting is singing 'Sue Lawley'.
Gene Cotton had a minor seventies hit with 'Me and the elephants'; the opening line goes 'I remember the day we had nothing to do, so we went down to the city zoo, just to kill an hour or two....', but it sounds like he is singing '....just to kill an owl or two'.
And, I kid you not, I was once standing looking at a pub juke box, when the fella next to me said 'where's that Wings' song - you know, Mother Can't Iron'. For those not aware of Macca's 1977 masterpiece, it was entitled 'Mull of Kintyre'.
So, what's your favourite mondegreen?
ya got a great car . the dandy warhols bohemian like you , i thought it said ya got a great cock.
Oooooh ooohhhhh me.........
...... :D
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Everytime you go away
You take a piece of meat with you
-Paul Young
Originally Posted by magirus
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEe0qqPAC6E :D
A couple from me:
Bonnie Tyler - "It's a hard egg"
Heard it Through the Grapevine - "Between the two of the skies, you know I love you more"
...... :D
Kylie Minogue - In my arms, sounds like "In my arse"!
I will never look at Kylie in the same light again :twisted:
At the end of Queen's One Vision, the last line of the song is meant to be...One Vision...however when heard, the last line of the song is ...Fried Chicken...
I was told this years ago and still to this day, can't get 'One Vision' into these lyrics!
Madonna - Erotic: 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'
No, he meant fried chicken. :wink:Originally Posted by andyjay
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From my mother's youth -
'There are tears in my eyes because the man I'm with is a Jew' (isn't you)
Suburban Lawns - Janitor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuC-VpCXuM
Great song but it sounds like "oh my genitals" :lol:
Every Christmas out comes "Olive, the other reindeer"
jim
This is not strictly on topic, but what about the visual equivalent. I used to own a fleiger, with the usual triangle flanked by two dots at twelve. One day I looked at it and saw a duck....I had to sell it and still can't look at such a watch without seeing a bloody duck.
Errrrrr...... Of course. A duck, you say. Hmmmmm.......Originally Posted by Baz
Del Shannon's "Runaway"
"Tears a-falling and I feel a pain"
For ages I thought it was "'tis appalling and I feel a pain"
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Surely, it has to be Crystal Gayle's "Donuts make my brown eyes blue"!? ;)
Cheers,
Guy :)
Mondegreen in action - the famous Ken Lee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
Now that is funny!
Isn't there a common one from Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater revival?
Something like "There's a bathroom onthe right"?
I like Abba's song; "Chicken-Tikka".
What REALLY upsets my wife & Teenage daughter (both Abba fans) is my attempts to change the lyrics into a lament for the closure of Sweden's only Indian takeaway and the groups attempts to cook Chicken-Tikka at home.
My other is Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes singing; "No lift goes up where we belong" which is a really sad song about living in a high-rise council flat.
Mike.
PMSL! :lol: :lol: :lol:Originally Posted by quoll
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I had a great deal of difficulty at the time trying to fathom out the lyrics to "into the valley" by the Skids and in the past Maxell made an ad of just that ridiculous but great completely mondegreen track.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAsmf1LGcpA
Cheers,
Neil.
How I wish this was true, Queen did have a few random lyrics, but I (sadly) remember checking the lyrics and still trying to work out how One Vision could become Fried Chicken...Originally Posted by magirus
Wiki, should you chose to believe it, says that it is indeed "Fried Chicken":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Vision"Fried chicken"
The final line of the song (in both the studio and live versions) is "fried chicken", although the lyrics say "One vision". This was a result of a prank that Freddie Mercury did in the studio, as the band had fried chicken for tea. Jim Hutton, who knew Freddie Mercury, says in his book that wasn't sure he would include it in the final cut. Jim Hutton encouraged him saying "You are big enough" (to get away with it).
This is a song, to my ears at least, about a Native American tribe called 'Geraldine' -
YMMV!
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Jim.
Wow, thread resurrection!
But here's Peter Kay with some great mis-heard lyrics
Rihanna, want you to love me like im a hot pie.
I’m sure that Don’t Go by Yazoo opens with ‘Came in from the city, walked into a door’
And Rihanna is definitely singing Hot Pie, we never sing anything else.
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust . . . "Making love with his eagle".
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Tina Turner...
What's a glove got to do with it?
Living on the Kent coast as a teenage new romantic we were sure visage were ‘stepping out from a backstuck Folkestone’ in fade to grey
https://youtu.be/UMPC8QJF6sI
And of course Roberta flack and Peabo Briceon
Tonight I sellotape my glove to you
https://youtu.be/2GOLnWz_Osc
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