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Mis-heard lyrics

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Mine: Bowie ?Major tongue to ground control? instead of ?Major Tom to ground control?.

But my mother-in-law takes the cake: Prodigy she was hearing ?take my picture? when it was ?smack my bitch up? I heard her singing this in the car and when I told her what she was mishearing the look was priceless.
 
My friend thought the chorus to Beck's "Loser" was "Soy in humidor, I'm a lizard baby, so why don't you kill me."

I thought David Bowie's "Suffragette City" was saying "She don't need only man cause she can't afford a ticket, she's somewhat conceited."
 
:music: I'm blue I believe I was dyed
I believe I've been dyed
I believe I was dyed
I believe I was dyed
I believe I've been dyed:music:
 
"Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names..."

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Heard on the radio the other day they are putting a new word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary this year for misheard lyrics - "mondegreens".

The term was first coined in 1954(!) by a writer in Harper's Magazine. Her essay described how when she was young, she misheard a line in the first part of an old ballad.

She remembered it this way:

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

The last line was actually "And laid him on the green".
 
Originally posted by: Drako
"Don't let your son go down on me"
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That's the version Elton did with George Michael for an anti-AIDS campaign...




FWIW, the technical term for mis-heard lyrics is Mondegreen
 
My coworker thought that AC/DC Dirty Deeds said "Thunder Cheese" instead of Done Dirt Cheap.

His name is Richard. I started calling him Thundercheese. My wife heard me call him that and thought I said his diminutive first name + cheese. That's me and my wife's nickname for him.
 
My friend thought Dave Matthews was singing "hike up your skirt little boy" instead of "hike up you skirt a little more" in his song "Crash Into Me"
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
I was listening to radio the other day a discussion on mis-heard lyrics and I thought most are pretty funny. I'm just listening to Nirvana.

Nirvana

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Where's the Lysol?
It just stings us!
Here we are now
Entertain us
I'm just stupid
And contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
I'm mulatto
I'm Albino
I'm a Skittle
Jalepeno
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Well to be honest that makes about as much sense as the actual song does.
 
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