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Song Titles or Lyrics that may be heard differently.....

michael hagerty said:
CTListener said:
"Why Don't We Get Drunk and SCREW?" ...
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If you're talking about the Jimmy Buffett tune, that is the lyric.
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I know. I was just coming up with a few titles for Invisible Tool Shed's debut album, which is what I thought the OP was doing. Two of the three were puns.

Invisible Tool Shed reminds me of an informal name the country singer, Kathy Mattea, came up with for her band for a couple of tours in the '90s: Monster Truck Pull, because she was booked at a county fair one night and the sign out front said
TONIGHT​
KATHY MATTEA​
and​
MONSTER TRUCK PULL​
 
Probably an obvious one here but I always thought Prince was saying "Get the f**k up" instead of "funk" in the song Batdance.

R
 
^ You could make out lyrics to Batdance? All I ever remembered in the song was "Bruce Wayne."

cd
 
Just heard the Buckingham's "Kind of a Drag" on the radio today and realized that 46 years after it was a hit, I still had no idea what the second line of the song is. "Kind of a drag / When you beh beh beh badoo"? Just looked it up on YouTube; those words never even crossed my mind!
 
CTListener said:
Just heard the Buckingham's "Kind of a Drag" on the radio today and realized that 46 years after it was a hit, I still had no idea what the second line of the song is. "Kind of a drag / When you beh beh beh badoo"? Just looked it up on YouTube; those words never even crossed my mind!
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The title lyric was misunderstood as "Canada Dry" by some, which I suppose would have made it a candidate for being banned by the BBC!
 
As to "Kind of a Drag," am I the only one who heard the last word as such:

I still love you
I'll always love you
Anywhere
Anywhere
Anywhere

(I know it's "anyway," but I never really gave it a thought until a while back.)

cd
 
If it hasn't already been mentioned, Eddie Money's "Two Tickets To Paradise" sounds more like "Two Chickens To Paralyze".

R
 
"Sway", Dean Martin: : "Other dancers may pee on the floor'.
 
cd637299 said:
More on "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight".....

Also in the chorus, I *always* had heard it as

but there's a warm wind blowin' the stars around

Of course, like I read on the Web, that isn't possible, and the line ends as "the stars are out." But if you really listen hard, the "t" sounds like an "n"; also they run the phrase together; there ought to be a slight pause between "blowin' " & "the". Anyone else heard it this way?

cd
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Lyrics on the intertubes are not always correct.

Yes, the wind, cold or warm, has no power to move the stars, but it makes it such a great line that if they weren't smart enough to write it that way, well, they should have, and they should pretend that they did.
 
My daughter, then only 5 or 6, somehow fell in love with And Then He Kissed Me. She had all the lyrics down pat. It was I who lampooned it by singing "and then he KICKED me...", making her and her little friends collapse on the floor with fits of giggly laughter. But 30-something years later my clowning with ...KISSED ME... yields little more that a nasty roll of her eyes. What's with these kids today?
 
Getting a little quiet on this thread, so let's kick start and get busy again...

Consider The Raspberries, Please Go All The Way. Only recently did I learn the correct title and hear the hook phrase correctly. Always thought Eric Carmen was singing "Please go AWAY..."

Go ahead and laugh. Then pull up this classic on YouTube. You will find at least one other soul in the comments section who made the same mistake. So there.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
Getting a little quiet on this thread, so let's kick start and get busy again...

Consider The Raspberries, Please Go All The Way. Only recently did I learn the correct title and hear the hook phrase correctly. Always thought Eric Carmen was singing "Please go AWAY..."

Go ahead and laugh. Then pull up this classic on YouTube. You will find at least one other soul in the comments section who made the same mistake. So there.
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That would make the song:

Baby please

Go away

it feels so right being with you here tonight

Baby please

Go away

Just hold me close

Don't ever let me go oh no


I mean, yeah, women can be confusing sometimes, but that'd be just schizo.
 
Re, Reply #96... a new McDonald's commercial played as I read your reply, Michael. Something about a new soft drink, "Mint Shamrock". A fellow comes home smelling like mint. Suspecting she detects the tell-tale aroma of the Mint Shamrock, the wife (presumptuous, I Know) sniffs around his neck. "I hate you," she snaps. That's when our hero whips his arm from around his back, revealing posession of a Mint Shamrock he brought home for her. "I love you," she declares. Don't you just love happy endings?
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
Re, Reply #96... a new McDonald's commercial played as I read your reply, Michael. Something about a new soft drink, "Mint Shamrock". A fellow comes home smelling like mint. Suspecting she detects the tell-tale aroma of the Mint Shamrock, the wife (presumptuous, I Know) sniffs around his neck. "I hate you," she snaps. That's when our hero whips his arm from around his back, revealing posession of a Mint Shamrock he brought home for her. "I love you," she declares. Don't you just love happy endings?
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You mean to tell me all I need is a Mint Shamrock shake and domestic bliss is assured?

Why didn't someone say something earlier?
 
michael hagerty said:
jfrancispastirchak said:
Re, Reply #96... a new McDonald's commercial played as I read your reply, Michael. Something about a new soft drink, "Mint Shamrock". A fellow comes home smelling like mint. Suspecting she detects the tell-tale aroma of the Mint Shamrock, the wife (presumptuous, I Know) sniffs around his neck. "I hate you," she snaps. That's when our hero whips his arm from around his back, revealing posession of a Mint Shamrock he brought home for her. "I love you," she declares. Don't you just love happy endings?
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You mean to tell me all I need is a Mint Shamrock shake and domestic bliss is assured?
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No, Just a happy ending. But you gotta supersize.
 
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