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Songs We THOUGHT We Knew The Lyrics To!

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#32 04-09-2014 02:07PM

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LexieOnRale wrote: »

I can see Deirdre now Lorraine is gone

This one

Billie Myers, Kiss the rain

I thought it was Kiss Lorraine

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#33 04-09-2014 02:59PM

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The Clash were actually singing about cats in Rock the Casbah:

"Siamese don't like it
What do cats know?
What do cats know?"

:pac:

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#34 04-09-2014 03:09PM

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I thought "Turning Japanese" was "Tony Japanese." Sounds like a character from Only Fools and Horses

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#35 04-09-2014 03:17PM

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You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,
Four hungry children and a tropical eel.

Don't go out tonight,
They're bound to take your life,
There's a bathroom on the right.

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#36 04-09-2014 03:20PM

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She's got Better days aside (Betty Davis Eyes)
After the poison summer has gone (Boys of summer)

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#37 04-09-2014 03:26PM

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cml387 wrote: »

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,
Four hungry children and a tropical eel.

Four hundred children

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#38 04-09-2014 03:29PM

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Its worth youtubing "Peter Kay misheard lyrics"
Duffy Mercy-"You got me begging you for bird seed" and Celine Dion- "The hotdogs go on"

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#39 04-09-2014 05:13PM

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Paddy me boy......is that the Chatanooga choo choo

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#40 04-09-2014 05:21PM

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pulps song can't remember name "with wood chip on the wall " always thought it was " with birdsh*t on the wall "

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#41 04-09-2014 07:45PM

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The Master wrote: »

It's actually supposed to be "No Woman Nuh Cry"
"Nuh" being a Jamaican phrase meaning "Don't"
So the song is telling a woman that living a life in the ghetto will get better
"No Woman Don't Cry"...

Wow, got it wrong on two levels ... will listen to that song again tonight... but what an artist... I still love his music after all these years

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#42 04-09-2014 07:49PM

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Someone please tell me that I misheard that Irish hit(?). That had the lyrics 'wheres my jumper' dancin' in the disco etc etc and that the actual lyrics were more meaningful?! Fond memories !!

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#43 04-09-2014 08:03PM

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Britney Spears - Boys
Actual lyrics : What would it take for you to just leave with me?

What I hear: What would it take for for you to just sleep with me?

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#44 04-09-2014 08:07PM

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green_screen wrote: »

I used to think that the lyrics to a song I can't even remember the name of was 'a train full of knackers on the 45'

Brimful of asha

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#45 04-09-2014 08:10PM

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pookiesboo wrote: »

Its worth youtubing "Peter Kay misheard lyrics"
Duffy Mercy-"You got me begging you for bird seed" and Celine Dion- "The hotdogs go on"

Love that one. It really does sound as if that's what shes saying.

"Beat me up with your lettuce" - Squeeze - Is That Love"

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#46 04-09-2014 08:16PM

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Not2Good wrote: »

Just heard 'The Smiths' with the lyrics in one of their songs (?) "Hang the DJ, hang the DJ" but today I guess it could be "Im the DJ, Im the DJ". Anyone else out there as bad as me....??!!

It IS "Hang the DJ"

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#47 04-09-2014 08:30PM

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SuperGrover wrote: »

It IS "Hang the DJ"

Thank God! Thanks for that, Im not going that mad! Cheers

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#48 04-09-2014 08:42PM

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T-Rex: Metal Guru, is it you....

Me: Millie the Loop, is it you...

I was always sh!te at picking up words of songs.

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#49 04-09-2014 09:08PM

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What was it exactly that Errol believed in in the Hot Chocolate song "You sexy thing"?

"I believe in milko"

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#50 04-09-2014 09:09PM

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I LOVE A KICKIINNNNNNNNNN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI

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#51 04-09-2014 09:36PM

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An oldie but a goodie.........1997 to be exact.

Wes is actually singing in the Duala language of Cameroon....but if you listen to the opening lyrics you'd swear he is singing............
Tall Man in Tallaght....Meet me somewhere...........

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#52 04-09-2014 09:43PM

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cml387 wrote: »

What was it exactly that Errol believed in in the Hot Chocolate song "You sexy thing"?

"I believe in milko"

Miracles..

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#53 04-09-2014 10:05PM

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The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored:

"I don't have Marcel Marceau, he's already in me"

but it's actually

"I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me

The Breeders - Safari

"He couldn't leave to f*ck, he couldn't leave"

is really

"He couldn't leave the flock, he couldn't leave"

Madonna - Erotica

"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body"

but she's just singing

"Erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body"

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#54 04-09-2014 10:14PM

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Not2Good wrote: »

Someone please tell me that I misheard that Irish hit(?). That had the lyrics 'wheres my jumper' dancin' in the disco etc etc and that the actual lyrics were more meaningful?! Fond memories !!

Nope, not misheard:

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

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#55 04-09-2014 10:16PM

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Good God.....

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#56 04-09-2014 10:19PM

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Prefab sprouts song.
Hot dog, jumping frog, I want gherkins.
Used to sing that for years.
the real word is Alberquerqe.

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#57 04-09-2014 10:20PM

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cython wrote: »

Nope, not misheard:

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

It's all right to say things can only get better
If you haven't just lost your brand new sweater
Pure new wool and perfect stitches
Not the type of jumper that makes you itch, oh no
Dancing in the disco, go go go
Dancing in the disco, oh no, oh no
And my mother will be so, so angry
And my brother will be so, so angry
And my girlfriend will be so, so angry......

LEGEND!!!

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#58 04-09-2014 10:22PM

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Queen

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme fried chicken.....

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#59 04-09-2014 10:27PM

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And now, to honour America, here's Krusty The Klown...

"Oh say can you... see,
La, da, da, da, da,... Light...
What so proudly we..err...ya... aye-ya-ya..."

Ohhhhhhhh...

I shouldn't have turned down those cue cards...

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#60 04-09-2014 10:35PM

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deise08 wrote: »

Prefab sprouts song.
Hot dog, jumping frog, I want gherkins.
Used to sing that for years.
the real word is Alberquerqe.

Up to reading this post I thought it was,
hot dog, jumping frog, I want cookie.

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#61 04-09-2014 11:07PM

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The band Rush has a song called Armor and Sword, which features the line:
The battle flags are flown at the feet of a garden gnome ... :cool:
(god unknown)

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.
— Grover Cleveland

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