h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

kissthisguy has been mentioned, but there's another super website for misheard lyrics: http://www.amiright.com

...which has the byline "making fun of music, one song at a time"

My mother always used to refer to her favourite misheard lyric being in the French National Anthem:

Allons enfants de la poitrine
(Come on children of the breast)
...to which she added
Le jour de boire est arrivé



Phil

How 'bout

Elton John's, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

Misheard Lyrics:
Goodbye yellow brick road,
where the dark clouds are starting to howl

Correct Lyrics:
Goodbye yellow brick road,
where the dogs of society howl

Oh Elton,

What amazing talent.



Later,

DQ

Israeli Men! Halleluyah!

Israeli Men! Amen!

A version of Its raining men by Gerry or Weather Girls.

Strange....

Ugh, I have a history of mishearing lyrics, but now I somehow can't remember any of the good ones Well, in 'Drive my car' by the Beatles, the text is of course,

"She said, 'Baby can't you see
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen'"

but I'm convinced and still hear:

"She said, 'Baby can't you see
I wanna be famous' and started to scream"

In Bewitched's song from a few years ago, 'C'est la vie' there's a line that goes:

"I'm the wolf today"

but I had to correct my friend as she was singing:

"On the roof today"!

my favorite has to be creedence clearwater revival and "theres a bad moon on the rise." for years, my little brother and i thought it was "there's a bathroom on the right".

Actually, Tacysa, my bro and I had that same arguement about "bathroom on the right", so I went and listened, and in one line they really DO seem to say that!

My personal fave misheard lyric: for the longest time, I thought Van Morrison was singing "It's a marvelous night for a bonedance", instead of a "moondance"

Forever in blue jeans,
The love of my life at one time sang"The reverend blue jeans"
and I think she still does sometimes.. when I can't really hear her above the volume of Neil Diamond!

Artisan

I didn't find out until I was about 15 that the words of the British national dirge weren't a request to post plums to the queen:

"Send her Victorias, happy and glorious"

And I only discovered this because I asked someone to define what made a plum happy and glorious!

last summer, a Bob Marley tracked was remixed ...

I was wondering for a longtime why he was telling us all "I'm a railroad too" ... turns out he was more more colourfully a rainbow

Do deliberately misheard lyrics count? There was a commercial on TV years ago for Maxell (I think) audio cassettes. It featured a Rasta listening to a tape he'd made of 'The Israelite' and he held up boards with what the lyrics sounded like. The one that sticks in my mind is the title of the song - "Me ears are alight". The ad wasn't shown very often - I only saw it once or twice - but it always made me smile.

I can remember them, but if I post them here they'll almost certainly be moderated.

That was dangerous -

I told my mum (83 years old) about the "Send her Victorias" and she nearly cracked up giggling about it. Weeping into the potato peelings she was with mirth

I've just discovered another one: The first line of On Mercury on the Chilli Pepper's album By the way goes "I've got myself in a masochistic hold" but it really REALLY sounds like "I've got my girlfriend - a masochistic ho"!

Could be very useful, a 'masochistic ho' depending on ones tastes!

Well!

There is a song I keep hearing on virgin radio atm that sounds like the hook is:

"the hardest bucket of mutton" (repeat).

I don't know who sings it but it has had a lot of air time - can anyone tell me what he is really saying? Or is that it? What is so hard about this particular bucket of mutton? Is it a bit off, or is there too much to eat or what? It is starting to bother me know because I caught myself singing it the other day and was getting some very odd looks