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What did they sing - misheard lyrics

  • 27-12-2004 10:29PM
    #1
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭


    Many of us have over the years have misheard or misunderstood lyrics. So what were they ?

    One that comes back to me was
    Huey Lewis - The Power of Love - still convinced that "rich like cream" was "pricks like cream"


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  • #2
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Hahaaa. A mates g/f (American) used to think that the chorus in Sisqo's The Thong song went like "Let me hear that phoooone, that phon-phon-pho-pho-phoone" :D

    It took my mate, me and a copy of the video to correct her...


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Not exactly misheard, but a fun alternative when you're drunk...

    "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
    The greatest gift they'll get this year is lunch"


  • #4
    shelly04
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭shelly04


    i went around thinkin it was 'gimmie gimmie gimie a man and a free house' as abbas song.. oops.


  • #5
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    shelly04 wrote:
    i went around thinkin it was 'gimmie gimmie gimie a man and a free house' as abbas song.. oops.
    A case of wishful thinking? :p

    BTW that's by the A-Teens not ABBA...


  • #6
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    http://www.kissthisguy.com/


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  • #7
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    TimAy wrote:
    http://www.kissthisguy.com/
    Ah yes, the complete masterclass of how not to design a website...


  • #8
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    its all about content.


  • #9
    Ro: maaan!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"...

    Actual line: "Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a play"
    Heard: "Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a negro in a cage"


  • #10
    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    doodle_sketch wrote:
    Ah yes, the complete masterclass of how not to design a website...
    Jesus that site's horrible!


  • #11
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    I can see deirdre now loraine is gone


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  • #12
    Dar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭Dar


    One of my brothers mates:

    Real Lyrics: "Got my first six string, bought it at the five and dime."

    What he thought it was: "Got my first sex dream, bought it at the five and dime."


  • #13
    Tha Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    Until i heard the remake i always thought the band aid song went "We knooow,wo ho,let them now its christmas time". When i heard them clearly saying "feed tha,worlllld" on the new one i was like "wonder why they changed the lyrics?

    Theres an ad,i think its for Lenore washing powder,with some country western singer on it. I cant remember the line now,but if you are half listening it sounds like hes saying "work them n1ggers" or something in the line. It must be the southern redneck accent that had me thinkin it



    Also i always thought that song went
    "Oooh baby do ya know what thats worth
    Oooh heaven is a place called love"

    I thought it didnt make much sense


  • #14
    Ro: maaan!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    Actually I used to think it was "Feed them, Whoa oh oh oh." Still sh*te either way.


  • #15
    shelly04
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭shelly04


    BTW that's by the A-Teens not ABBA...[/QUOTE]
    I thought that abba did gimmie gimmie gimmie?? :(


  • #16
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    I heard that shapeshifters song lolas theme for the first time ages ago and couldnt work out the line that goes "i'm a different person" and so convinced myself she was singing "i'm a dancing toaster"..... still not sure...


  • #17
    Captain Trips
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Captain Trips


    Jimi Hendrix, Purple Rain: "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" / "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky".


  • #18
    VaGodiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭VaGodiva


    Eiffel 64's song Blue-

    Actual Line: "I'm blue, aba de aba da"
    What we heard: "I'm blue, gotta pee I'm a guy"


  • #19
    cujimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭cujimmy


    Years ago Ian Dempsey and zig and Zag on the radio did a bit every morning where they changed the words of songs around. My fav was fine young canibals "she drives me crazy" which Z&Z sang as "she dries meat gravy"


  • #20
    finlma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭finlma


    The best one ever was when my mate asked me if I'd heard the song "It's My English Accent". When I said no he sang it for me and it turned out to be "Sorry, Miss Jackson"


  • #21
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    yes - on the one hand this is almost a record breaking BUMP, but hey - a misheard lyric is a misheard lyric...

    any of you who happen to have access to Bob Dylans 'Changing of The Guards', can you just fast forward to around 2:05 seconds into it...

    it sounds, for all the world, like he sings

    "She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo/And Mr Gerry Ryan"


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  • #22
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    This made sense so it took years before I realised what they really said.

    Really "Our lips are sealed"
    Heard "I love Cecile"


  • #23
    Dizzyblabla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭Dizzyblabla


    not exactly the same.. but I couldn't stop laughing when I heard it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8gtrD4_C4&mode=related&search
    you have to read the subtitles, cause it's definitely a case of misheard lyrics!


  • #24
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLDLyeepVs

    :)


  • #25
    Dun laoire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    Geri Halliwell sang that "Its raining men" song a couple years back. This line made me hungry



    Actual line: According to all sources, the street's the place to go

    My line: A Doner and all sauces, it's the way to go.


    mmmmmm kebab.


  • #26
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Dizzyblabla wrote:
    not exactly the same.. but I couldn't stop laughing when I heard it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8gtrD4_C4&mode=related&search
    you have to read the subtitles, cause it's definitely a case of misheard lyrics!

    Oh sweet Jesus, that's brilliant.

    (Please move if better in the youtube thread...)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ


  • #27
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Going back a while now.

    Hey Ronnie,
    Hey Ronnie,
    Put your hands all over my body

    'Erotic' by Madonna


  • #28
    TheWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭TheWolf


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10&eurl=

    :rolleyes:


  • #29
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    I found this old thread on this

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054944718&referrerid=&highlight=cant+stand+gravy

    The Police Spirits in a material world'

    I thought it was spirits in a machine whirl (made no sence!)


  • #30
    Feral Mutant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle
    Real words: "You've gotta rub me the right way"
    I heard: "You've gotta rub me to ride me"


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  • #31
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Captain Trips wrote:
    Jimi Hendrix, Purple Rain: "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" / "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky".
    That's a quote from either a movie or tv show.
    My addled brain cannot remember which right now though.
    VaGodiva wrote:
    Eiffel 64's song Blue-

    Actual Line: "I'm blue, aba de aba da"
    What we heard: "I'm blue, gotta pee I'm a guy"
    According to a friend of mine, it was:
    "I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy"


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