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I am so one of those people who sing songs for years without ever really knowing the words — basically humming, but with words of, evidently, my own choosing. Over the years I’ve amassed some favorites:
When you get caught
Between the world and new york city
I know it’s crazy but it’s true
If you get caught
Between the world and new york city
The best that you can do
The best that you can do
Is fall in love
or
The heart of rock and roll is Tibetan (Ti-beat-an)(I likely saw the word Tibetan somewhere before I knew about the country Tibet (or how to pronounce it) and how unlikely it is that rock ‘n’ roll’s heart would be there)
and of course,
Papa don’t preach, I’m in trouble please
Papa don’t preach, I’m in Loser Sea
But I made up my mind, I’m keeping my baby, oh
I’m gonna keep my baby, mmm…
Well, now I can add, the Boss:
I was uploading Springsteen’s greatest hits and I wondered what the song “Brilliant Disguise” was. Well, lo and behold I was very familiar with it, except I thought the words were:
“Is that youuuuu baby, or just a bridge in disguise?”
HAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHAH, I kill me.
December 31st, 1969 at 7:00 pm
And of course there’s always the classic, “Scuse me while I kiss this guy.”
February 23rd, 2005 at 8:07 pm
glad I’m not the only one … can’t think of my classics off the top of my head, but will add later if I do.
February 23rd, 2005 at 8:54 pm
I was always for “there’s a bathroom on the right.” And everyone made fun of me for hearing “Never gonna give you up; never gonna let you down” as “Then we’re gonna give you up; then we’re gonna let you down.” Which I actually preferred.
February 23rd, 2005 at 8:55 pm
hhahhahahahaah
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Uncle Kracker’s - “Follow Me”
Me singing:
“You don’t know how you met me
You don’t know why
You can’t turn around and say goodbye
All you know is when I’m with you
I make you free
And swim through your veins like piss in the sea”
My wife:
“FISH! It’s FISH in the sea!”
Me (not singing anymore):
“Yeah, that actually makes sense.”
Her:
“Your way was stupid.”
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:40 pm
Um, you mean it’s not:
“Between the world and new york city”?
So what is it?
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:46 pm
hhahahaahahahahahahah…supposedly it’s “between the moon and new york city” (there being no between the world and new york city and all…) but most of the time i still sing world.
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:59 pm
The malady you are all suffering from is known as lyricosis.
“One-winged dove” was mine.
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:23 pm
Oh shit. It’s not “one-winged dove”? Seriously?
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:29 pm
My personal favs are:
“Dirty jeans and your dungarees” (Dirty Deeds and they’re done dirt cheap by ACDC)
Simian the Whale
(Send me on my way by Rusted Root)
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:49 pm
what’s one-winged dove from? pearatty you crack me up! Drive up to Berkeley this weekend and hang out with me and rick.
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:53 pm
White winged dove, pearatty.
February 24th, 2005 at 12:29 am
That’s too bad. I always thought “one winged dove” was kind of poignant. “White winged dove” is just sappy. I feel taken in.
Apparently, there are no songs to which I actually know the words.
(I’d fly to Berkley, but I have to go to a baby shower on saturday.)
February 24th, 2005 at 2:40 am
eh, the baby won’t notice if you’re not there.
February 24th, 2005 at 9:32 am
Steve Miller wins it for me. “Big old Chad had a rhino…”
February 24th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
for me it was always “I like it like that, I like it like that… I can’t sew, I can’t sew!”
February 24th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
“the baby won’t notice if you’re not there.”
True, but his mean ol’ preggers mamma will.
February 24th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
cause im a cheerio… cause im a cheerio girl, hey, in a cheerio world… cheerio-oh-oh….
February 25th, 2005 at 1:51 am
One-winged dove? White Winged Dove? I thought it was Whirlwind Gull!
I love “Big old Chad had a rhino”.
But I think Ilsa wins it. She has always disliked the Who, because of their racist song — you know, the one about the def dumb black kid?
February 25th, 2005 at 4:40 am
“Of the Cross Eyed Bear that you gave to me”
You know it makes sense, a lover gives you a stuffed animal bear that happens to be cross eyed. Now that you broke up it’s a sad reminder type thing.
“Of the cross I bear that you gave to me”
February 25th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Ilsa wins it. For sure.
February 26th, 2005 at 2:39 am
Nah I think cross-eyed bear wins.
February 26th, 2005 at 3:16 am
I think Ilsa wins because she actually made a decision to dislike a whole band based on her lyricosis. Everyone else just had a funny misconception that had no real effect on thier lives.
February 26th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
Still, I’m voting for cross-eyed bear. Chad’s rhino is a very close second.
Pick your favorite mondegreen of all time from this site.
February 26th, 2005 at 8:36 pm
Wow, there are some great ones there. I particularly like “99 dead baboons” and “Hold me closer Tony Danza”.
And while we’re on the subject, am I the only one who thought “Our Lips Are Sealed” was “Arliss the Seal”?
February 26th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
Ilsa points out that “I got my first real sex dream” is even funnier when you think of the next line in the song, “bought it at the five and dime”.
February 26th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
oh, god, I just sang even more of the Brian Adams song. That one wins. For sure.
February 26th, 2005 at 10:56 pm
I can’t believe it’s not “free your lady marmalade” d’oh!