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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

So I was driving home from class and I heard this song (lyrics only) on the radio.

For the life of me, I thought they were singing, "We're the redneck kings of funk!"

I never get song lyrics right, but that doesn't stop me from singing. I usually can make up words with the right meter and rhyme scheme to fill in the gaps, but it leads to some interesting results.

What are some of your best mangled song lyrics?

Dagonee
P.S., I think my version is much funnier, by the way.

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

"Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.
Dirty deeds and the Thunder Chief"

"Good-bye, groovy Tuesday..."(sung in front of all my friends in high school)

Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :

When I was young, I thought the old song "From a Distance" was about a snoopy father and some paranoid kids.

"Daddy's watching us, Daddy's watching us, Daddy's watching us . . . from a distance."

[Big Grin]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I thought that Garth Brooks's "Fever" said:
"He's a deathbed priest with a boy scout deep inside."

It was actually:
"He's a different breed with a voice down deep inside."

I like mine better.

And of course, there's the ubiquitous CCR classic:
"There's the bathroom on the right"

Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :

I don't really listen to music, so I'm pretty safe from mangling lyrics.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

for the longest time I misheard REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling.

What I heard: "You're a candle in the the winter and a corndog when it's night"

Real lyrics: "You're a candle in the window
On a cold, dark winter's night.

Posted by pwiscombe (Member # 181) on :

From an LDS perspective:

Come, Come Ye Saints,
No toilet paper here.

I am a child of God
And he has sent me here.
Has given me an earthly home
With parent's kind of wierd.

(for those of you without the secret decoder rings, the original phrases are "no toil nor labor fear" and "with parents kind and dear")

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

One of my friends once made me try and sing The Star Spangled Banner. I figured I knew it, I mean, I watch a lot of hockey games.

Oh, man. Not pretty.

Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :

"Let's go to the movies" from Annie... there's a line that says "Fred and Ginger spinning madly"

For years I sang "Bread and Ginger Ale spending madly."

My parents told my stories of the depression and I thought that they had to eat bread at the movies instead of popcorn [Big Grin]

Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :

pwiscombe: In seminary we managed to mangle most of the hymns, occasionally with risque results. The teacher chewed us out and threatened to go to our parents.

The worst one I remember is:

Hark! The herald harelips sing:
ner ner ner ner ner ner ner

Not very P.C.; I know.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

"It's like I told you, only the lonely get laid."

Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :

[ROFL]

If only that were true.

I get all sorts mixed up. I just can't remember the specific lines. I get it from my mom. She can't sing (both lyrically and the notes) to save her life.

[ April 11, 2004, 01:53 AM: Message edited by: Stan the man ]

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

This is a great thread!! I know I'm not the only one that slaughtered the lyrics of really good songs.

The one I remember the most was Toto's Africa. It went something like this:
It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you.
There's nothin' that a hundred men on board will ever do!
I miss the rains down in Africa...

I figured that he SHOULD miss the rains if he's in Africa, right? [Smile]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

pajeba, great site. I think my favorite is that old CCR stand-by, "There's a bathroom on the right."

Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :

My tonedeaf husband always thought that "Rollercoaster of Love" was "cornecopia of love". I never get tired of giving him crap for that. [Evil Laugh]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

quote:
figured that he SHOULD miss the rains if he's in Africa, right?

That ISN'T how it goes!? [Eek!]

As for ones I've heard, my little sister, when she was little, used to sing:

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, good baaaaaaar.

[ROFL]

Considering my family's relationship with alcohol, that's even MORE amusing. [Big Grin]