Song Lyrics Online

[dr_mabeuse]

Just curious as to how many people have had to resort to looking up song lyrics on line to understand what was being said in a particular tune.

I had to look up Steve Miller's "the Joker". If you've heard the song you probably know why. I also looked up Elton John's "Levon", after like 20 years of not knowing what the hell he was singing about. And now I still don't know.

---dr.M.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Ever see a Karaoke singer get pissed off because the lyrics provided were different from the words he knew?

 

[English Lady]

I look up lyrics all the time online, usually to find out the title or the artist of the song or to check I am actually quioting part of it right *chuckles*

 

[shereads]

WARNING: EARWORM

I had to print this out for someone to prove I hadn't made it up. They don't write lyrics like this anymore.*

See the tree
How big it's grown
You know it hasn't been too long
It wasnt' big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it
It was just a twig.



*Thanks to new, harsher sentencing guidelines

 

[sincerely_helene]

I used to think "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" was actually "Big Old Jedd and Lynol" until I stumbled upon the lyrics by accident.

It makes much more sense now.

 

[English Lady]

oh now that reminds me.


My sister was adamant that the shaggy song "jump and prance" was actually "jumbo Bras"


oh yes indeed. So if i ever hear that song it cracks me up *L*

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Quoting Honey can get you into a jam, but its sweet to sing . . .


Honey Pie
by The Beatles


She was a working girl
North of England way
Now she's hit the big time
In the U.S.A.
And if she could only hear me
This is what I'd say.

Honey pie you are making me crazy
I'm in love but I'm lazy
So won't you please come home.
Oh honey pie my position is tragic
Come and show me the magic of your Hollywood song.

You became a legend of the silver creen
And now the thought of meeting you
Makes me weak in the knee.
Oh honey pie you are driving me frantic
Sail across the Atlantic
To be where you belong.

Will the wind that blew her boat across the sea
Kindly send her sailing back to me.
Honey pie you are making me crazy
I'm in love but I'm lazy
So won't you please come home.




Wild Honey Pie
by The Beatles


Honey pie, honey pie
Honey pie, honey pie
Honey pie, honey pie
Honey pie, honey pie
I love you honey pie


sincerely_helene you should check out KISSTHISGUY.COM The Archive of Misheard Lyrics

 

[sincerely_helene]

sincerely_helene you should check out KISSTHISGUY.COM The Archive of Misheard Lyrics

Darlin', you are quickly becoming a favorite resource of mine! I positively ADORE fractured lyrics (possibly linked to my peculiar pun obsession? Hmmmm...) Thanks for the heads up!

Now... 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

 

[doormouse]

Yes!!!

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen comes to mind.

Heh, funny you started this thread... for the audio thread, I've been looking up song lyrics of typically Aussie songs just to stir up ABS

 

[patrick1]

There was a lovely radio play (yes we still have them over this side of the pond) by a guy who's now dead, Stewart Parker, from the north of Ireland, which hinged on someone hearing 'I'm a dreamer, aren't we all?' as 'I'm a dreamer Montreal' - the title of the play...and it's true isn't it? Somehow we put our own dreams into the lyrics we mishear. The words we mistakenly believe we know are a sort of distorting mirror.

'scuse me while I too kiss this guy.

patrick

 

[impressive]

Oh, yeah! More often than not it's to settle a bet.

 

[Guest]

Have been forced to look them up several times. One of my personal favorites is when I thought Beast of Burden by the Stones said: "I never seen your pizza burnin'"

 

[cloudy]

I think my favorite twisted lyric is from "Bad Moon Rising," by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The last line of the chorus says, "There's a bad moon on the rise."

A friend of mine liked her version better: "There's a bathroom on the right."

And, a song by the Kentucky Headhunters called Dumas Walker - the first line of the chorus is "Let's all go down to Dumas Walker's," but righteous people called into our local country music station, outraged by what they thought it said....

"Let's all go down to do Miss Walker."

 

[carsonshepherd]

what about that AC/DC song, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap? I always thought it was something about dirty deeds and the thunder chief, or something. I still sing it that way when it comes on the radio.

That is an awesome link, thanks! I laughed, I cried.

 

[ferociouskittycat]

what about that AC/DC song, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap? I always thought it was something about dirty deeds and the thunder chief, or something. I still sing it that way when it comes on the radio.

That is an awesome link, thanks! I laughed, I cried.

LOL

Trust you to have a shepherd nick, I have the 'Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep' version

Good 'ol weird El

 

[matriarch]

Shania Twain..............That don't impress me much.....

First time I heard this song, I was gobsmacked, I was quite positive that one line was.................I can't believe you kiss your cock at night.......!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, for a long, long time, I was convinced that's what she sang!!! (such an innocent aren't I?)

What she actually says is........

I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight.

If you don't believe me............listen to it !!

 

[sincerely_helene]

There was a lovely radio play (yes we still have them over this side of the pond) by a guy who's now dead, Stewart Parker, from the north of Ireland, which hinged on someone hearing 'I'm a dreamer, aren't we all?' as 'I'm a dreamer Montreal' - the title of the play...and it's true isn't it? Somehow we put our own dreams into the lyrics we mishear. The words we mistakenly believe we know are a sort of distorting mirror.

'scuse me while I too kiss this guy.

patrick

I think You're a doorbell.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Here's another one. That song "I Want You to Want Me" by Cheap Trick. Where it says, "didn't I, didn't I, didn't I", when I was a kid I thought it said "Tiddleye, tiddleye, tiddleye". I had no idea what a tiddleye was. My uncle finally told me what it really said, but in my family we still call it the Tiddleye song.

 

[patrick1]

Helene

Bjorn so booty full.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Here. This is verse one from Steve Miller's "The Joker"

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

"Pompitous" was the word I couldn't understand and couldn't find in the dictionary. It turns out that Miller just made the word up, which earned him a lot of points in my book.

---dr.M.

 

[English Lady]

I always thought it was "properties" of love...kinda pronounced a bit sloppily*L*

 

[Guest]

Here. This is verse one from Steve Miller's "The Joker"

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

"Pompitous" was the word I couldn't understand and couldn't find in the dictionary. It turns out that Miller just made the word up, which earned him a lot of points in my book.

---dr.M.

I love the Steve Miller Band.

I also love the little wolf whistle lick done with guitars after they say "Maurice."

 

[oggbashan]

How about the hymn line:

Gladly, my cross-eyed bear.

Og

 

[dr_mabeuse]

How about the hymn line:

Gladly, my cross-eyed bear.

Og

Or "Bringing in the Cheese"?

---dr.M.

 

[impressive]

"I got the moose egg in me."

(My brother will NEVER live this one down!)