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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    The Unchained melody....."Oh my love, my darling , I hunger for your crutch!

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Swinging bee View Post
    Ever mistaken a song title for something else ? (as per an article in todays Daily mail) or indeed ,deliberately changed them in pure devilment...
    I have thought that Justin Timberlake's song 'sexy back' would be more appropriately named 'sweaty back' when it comes to ceroc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jhutch View Post
    I have thought that Justin Timberlake's song 'sexy back' would be more appropriately named 'sweaty back' when it comes to ceroc
    yes i like that hahaha instead of im bringing sexy back it should iv got a sweaty back lol

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Forgot what the songs called but it's a dance song and the main lyrics are:

    "S'gotta be big" and "Bring your body close to mine" "bring your body close to my lips yeah"

    I always thought " Bring your body close to mine" sounded like "A Holy British Toaster-Matic"..

    Don't ask...

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    When it first came out and got into the charts (and long before I was an actual Pink Floyd fan) I thought the line

    "No dark sarcasm in the classroom"

    was

    "No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom"

    (Defies imagination!)

    And Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal"

    it's SUPPOSED to be

    "He came into her apartment
    He left the bloodstains on the carpet "


    and not

    "He left her Blisteeze on the carpet"

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    I used to think it was "all I want is a big mantilla", until somone told me it was "… man to love"!

    And I used to think that the Red Dwarf theme song went:
    "goldfish roes nibbling at my toes"!

    there aren't enough songs about goldfish!

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Dance Demon View Post
    That'll be Norman Collier you're talking about....never heard of Norman Collins..........
    Did I write that? I had to check my post!

    How strange. I wrote 'Collins' but I was thinking 'Collier'. Oo-er, that's worrying.

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    And Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal"

    it's SUPPOSED to be

    "He came into her apartment
    He left the bloodstains on the carpet "

    and not

    "He left her Blisteeze on the carpet"
    That's a terrible one in general anyway. I don't even know the proper lyrics....

    "Annie are you walking?"

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    Either way I'm intrigued to know what the devil it means: can you explain your interpretation of: "has a devil put aside for me"?


    PS There is the biggest archive of misheard lyrics at The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
    I see a little silhouette-o of a man

    Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango?

    Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me!

    Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro!

    Magnifico-o-o!

    I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me!

    He's just a poor boy, from a poor family - spare him his life from this monstrosity!

    Easy come, easy go - will you let me go?

    Bismillah! No!

    Will you let me go?

    Bismillah! No!

    Let me go!

    No, No, No, No, No, No, No!

    O mama mia, mama mia! Mama mia let me go! Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!

    In so far as that magnficent nonsense means anything at all, 'Beelzebub' is one of the gods worshipped in the countries around pre-christian Israel who was later considered as a demon of post Roman christianity. Beelzebub means Lord of the Flies (thankyou, William Golding) and he is one of the Lords of Hell. He has a devil - a hell-imp whose job was to torture the souls in torment - put aside specifically for our hero, as opposed to just lumping him with the run-of-the-mill offenders in general population.

    That's why 'has the devil' put aside doesn't make any sense.

    (I am available for weddings and bar-mitzvahs.)

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Jamie View Post
    I always thought " Bring your body close to mine" sounded like "A Holy British Toaster-Matic"..
    To quote the psychiatrist in Fawlty Towers: "There's enough there for a whole conference!"

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Bismillah! No!
    And of course, Bismillah is "In the name of Allah"

    "In the Name of Allah No !!"

    I suppose Loosely translates as "Please for Gods sake spare me!"

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Swinging bee View Post
    Ever mistaken a song title for something else ? (as per an article in todays Daily mail) or indeed ,deliberately changed them in pure devilment...

    One of mine is.. The Beatles " I wanna hold your gland....."
    What's yours?
    IWhen i was young and used to listen to EJ i thought a line from Benny and the jets went, "he`s got electric boobs and mohab zoobs, you know i read it in a magaziiiiiiiiine whoa oohh bbbbbbbbbbbbb benny and the jets .......someone explained to me electric boobs didn`t exist and neithe did Mohab zoobs!!!!!!!!!!!!! i later found out it was in fact.......he`s got electric boots and a mohair suit, you know i read it in a magazine.......and so on.....

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyFunkster View Post
    mohab zoobs
    isn't he a character from Dune? Paul Atreides , later known as the Kwisatz haderach but at one point known as Paul mohab zoobs

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post

    He's just a poor boy, from a poor family - spare him his life from this monstrosity!
    Lol! I used to think that line went 'spare him his life from his mum's sausages'

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    There's the famous Desmond Decker one

    "Gets up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
    So that every mouth can be fed
    Oh-oh, the Israelites"

    often misheard as "My ears are alight!"

    personally whenever I hear the chorus of "MmmBop" by Hanson

    "MMMBop, ba duba dop ba do bop,
    Ba duba dop ba do bop,
    Ba duba dop ba do. Oh yeah,
    MMMBop ba duba dop ba do bop,
    Ba duba dop ba do bop,
    Ba duba dop ba do"

    I always mishear it as

    "Hanson are evil
    Hanson must die.
    rip them limb from limb
    strip the meat from their bones
    and feed it to the wolves
    Then grind their bones to dust
    Hanson burn in hell for all eternity"

    Odd that .. ain't it

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Last night...... my eldest child and my mini me... went round the house singing.....


















    wait for it.....







    Oh I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mezzosoprano View Post
    Oh I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair....

    superb!

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    He's just a poor boy, from a poor family - spare him his life from this monstrosity!
    Quote Originally Posted by Jhutch View Post
    Lol! I used to think that line went 'spare him his life from his mum's sausages'
    And I used to think it was "spare him his life from his bornsosity" - though I had no idea what that might mean Some sort of right to life

    Is this one of the most mis-heard lyrics/songs?

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Due to the poor handwriting of one of my sisters/poor eyesight of mine, i always thought that jimmy somerville had a song out called 'smalltown bay' and due to me not listening to the words properly i thought it was it all about him moaning about how running away or somethingboring it was - 'wind and rain on a saturday night.' (actually 'wind and rain on a sad and lonely face,' having just checked on t'internet). Had a bit of a shock when i saw it on a music channel a few years ago

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    Re: Mis- heard song titles

    Until I hit double figures (or thereabouts) I was convinced that Rolf Harris was singing about "Jake the Pig" (deedle-eedle-eedle-um, with an extra leg, deedle-eedle-eedle-um). I often wondered if it was "peg" rather than "pig" (to rhyme properly with "leg" - that'll be the pedant in me), but a clothes peg with an extra leg just didn't make sense, so pig it was!

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