Misheard Song Lyrics

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victoriab

victoriaboyle.co.uk
Wookie's 'Funny Words' thread jogged my memory of some funny misheard song lyrics. My favourite example is my friend who thought that System of a Down (song: BYOB) say 'Why do we go to centre parks?' when the actual lyrics are 'Why do they always send the poor?'.
 
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MISS T

Forum user & abuser
"Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie"

"A young girl with eyes like potatoes" La Isla Bonita. Still don't know the correct lyrics.
 
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cookie_monster

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MISS T said:
"A young girl with eyes like potatoes" La Isla Bonita. Still don't know the correct lyrics.
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you know, we're good on here:

Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
Just like I'd never gone, I knew the song
A young girl with eyes like the desert
It all seems like yesterday, not far away

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

I fell in love with San Pedro
Warm wind carried on the sea, he called to me
Te dijo te amo
I prayed that the days would last
They went so fast

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

I want to be where the sun warms the sky
When it's time for siesta you can watch them go by
Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
Where a girl loves a boy, and a boy loves a girl

Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
It all seems like yesterday, not far away

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

La la la la la la la
Te dijo te amo
La la la la la la la
El dijo que te ama


enjoy!

x
 
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MISS T

Forum user & abuser
So close then! Cheers Cookie. Twenty years of happily singing potatoes finally comes to an end.
 
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Scuttlingb

Jacquie
Do you remember the song Camouflage in the early 80S, not sure now who it was by but a friend of mine used to sing "Camel Claws"..

Meat Loaf 2 out of 3 ain't bad I used to say "crying I s'pose in stead of tears" it should be "icicles"
 
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Doctor

Well-Known Forumite
There's a line in London Calling by the Clash that I miss heard for years as 'Into Stafford' and I try to not hear the real version now.
 
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cookie_monster

Well-Known Forumite
Doctor said:
There's a line in London Calling by the Clash that I miss heard for years as 'Into Stafford' and I try to not hear the real version now.
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skill point awarded for loyalty to the ford in the face of adversity! :up:


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Kharis

Kharis
Dirty Diana choras by the wako jacko....my sister thought he said "Pick up the answer phone" Instead of......."Dirty Diana, oh/no"

Still laugh about it now....easily pleased! :D
 
BBC

BBC

You knows it
The Police So lonely sounds like 'Sue lawley'

fall out boy.

Not misheard lyrics just don't understand a word they sing even though it's in english (apparently!)
 
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victoriab

victoriaboyle.co.uk
BBC said:
fall out boy.

Not misheard lyrics just don't understand a word they sing even though it's in english (apparently!)
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4068767512452275304&q=fall+out+boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10&mode=related&search=
 
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Doctor

Well-Known Forumite
noir2985 said:
BBC said:
fall out boy.

Not misheard lyrics just don't understand a word they sing even though it's in english (apparently!)
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4068767512452275304&q=fall+out+boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10&mode=related&search=
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:lol: :xd::buddy:

ps. thanks for the google vid cos I can't get youtube at work!
 
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Ecker

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The word coined for this concept is: Mondegreen

It is based on a poem the first four lines of which are:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

The fourth line should be: "And laid him on the green"

My favourite is based on a cowboy who had his boots eaten by a tiger:

"Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes...woo...woo..."
 
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