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Old 10-20-2020, 06:07 PM
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Ever get a little chuckle when you finally realize the vocalist is singing something different than what you thought you heard?

It's especially funny when someone else teases you for mangling words you've always had wrong, maybe for decades. It happens to all of us, especially some egocentric guitar players who regard the singer as an "extra" instrument in the band, like a triangle or tambourine.

A classic, especially to the ears of some shocked parents in 1970, was Jimi singing "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

Five years before that, I thought George Jones (the original) was singing "And the race is on, up the backstretch, hard eggs are comin' to the inside." Who knew? I was 10.

Share some of yours (no need to dig 'em up from the internet). Let's hear the real ones.
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There's the obvious "revved up like a deuce."

Until college, I pronounced the word "album" as "alblum". I don't know where that extra "L" came from...
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Dan’s Dairy Queen near my high school in Waco, Texas, had a jukebox with tubby bass, and for over a year in the mid-1960s, I thought Creedence Clearwater was singing: “...there’s a bathroom on the right” (instead of “bad moon on the rise”).

I later learned that others heard the same thing.

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Darn dirkronk, you beat my post by one minute!


My favorite from CCRs “Bad Moon Arisin:”

Quote:
Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bathroom on the right.
Sorry, now you’ll never hear the song in the same way, ever again. Blame this one on Phlash Phelps, morning DJ on XM Sixties on Six.

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Take your pick from one of my favorites.

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I always thought it was "put the lion in the coconut and shake it all up"
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Dan’s Dairy Queen near my high school in Waco, Texas, had a jukebox with tubby bass, and for over a year in the mid-1960s, I thought Creedence Clearwater was singing: “...there’s a bathroom on the right” (instead of “bad moon on the rise”).

I later learned that others heard the same thing.

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Whenever I surf into post-CCR John Fogarty on the tube or interweb, I always pause to see what he's been up to "recently" (past 10-20 years). In one interview, he reports that fans all sing about the "bathroom on the right," so that's pretty much what he does in concert now too.
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My oldest boy at age seven always sang "only women make good lovers".
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When my kids were little, I told them that “I Kissed a Girl” was “I Kissed a Squirrel”. It made for an easier conversation...not that there is anything wrong with that.
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...when Rickie Lee Jones hit the airwaves in 1979 I thought she was singing Junkies in Love...
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"Just like the Lone Ranger, sings a song sounds like he's singing Ooh Ooh Ooh"

The worst part is when I realized it was a dove, I first thought it was a "one winged dove". At least that made sense. I figured a one winged dove would be sad.

Never been about lyrics. I don't think I can sing all the words in many of my favorite songs.
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My favorite is, "the girl with colitis goes by" instead of "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes". From the song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

I started noticing these things when it became necessary to learn lyrics to when perform. There are often surprises in what you end up singing versus what you've always heard.
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Dan’s Dairy Queen near my high school in Waco, Texas, had a jukebox with tubby bass, and for over a year in the mid-1960s, I thought Creedence Clearwater was singing: “...there’s a bathroom on the right” (instead of “bad moon on the rise”).

I later learned that others heard the same thing.

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Ditto Ditto, and then the Bee Gees "More than a Woman", I heard in my teenage brain, "bald headed woman"! Well, they did sing falsetto, so give me a break! enjoy the topic
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My favorite misheard lyric of all time has (and always will be): “Kiss this Guy” by Jimmi Hendrix!
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