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  • Mondegreens: Stop the Cat Box?

    everyone's misheard lyrics and i just thought i'd ask which lyrics you misheard. the song i always remember is CCR's down on the corner. it goes

    Down on the corner, out in the street
    Willy and the Poorboys are playin'
    Bring a nickel; tap your feet

    but i swear i heard

    Down on the corner, haoles in the street...

    of course, there's the fairly wellknown site
    http://www.kissthisguy.com/

    in case you wanna see what others have heard....
    525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?

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    Re: wax in da ears

    Wrapped up like a "duece" in the middle of the night. Lyrical line from a song that I definitely misheard.
    Life is either an adventure... or you're not doing it right!!!

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    • #3
      Re: wax in da ears

      yeah, that song is probably the MOST misheard song ever!

      http://manfred-manns-earth-band.lyri.../lyrics/24218/

      i don't know if you're right and they're wrong or vice versa. they have it thus:

      Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

      whatever the case may be, i have some clothes to douch!
      525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?

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      • #4
        Re: wax in da ears

        When I was five or so, my older sisters had the 45 of the Beatles "Ticket to Ride". Me and my friends would sing "She's gotta chicken to ride, she's gotta chicken to rah- ah- ide..." for days walking home from school. We thought it was the coolest song.

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        • #5
          Re: wax in da ears

          Some wahine I had a crush on back late 60's early 70's or so, Leila Clifton used to sing;

          "Christmas is over, over and over..."

          We asked her who sang that and she said:
          Tommy James and the Shondells...
          then we knew which song she meant...

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          • #6
            Re: wax in da ears

            How about England Dan and John Ford Coley's I really like to see you tonight,
            I always thought the line was "I'm not talking about millenium" instead of "I'm not talking about moving in"
            Whoa, Mista Buss Driva, eh, you can stop the buss o wat?

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            • #7
              Re: wax in da ears

              I knew a guy in high school who thought Men At Work's "It's a mistake" was "Midsummer's Day" and Billy Squire's "Stroke me Stroke me" was "Strong man Strong man"!
              Listen to KEITH AND THE GIRLsigpic

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              • #8
                Re: wax in da ears

                Our love is like a ship on the ocean
                Spinning in a tidal pool of love and devotion...


                What, you mean that's not it?

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                • #9
                  Re: wax in da ears

                  "And you come to me on a submarine..." How Deep Is Your Love-- BeeGees ... supposed to be "and you come to me on a summer breeze" (I think) ... but it used to bug the crap out of the disco geeks in highschool when I would "ruin" the song.

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                  • #10
                    Re: wax in da ears

                    Yes it was ninety-six degrees in the shade
                    Ten thousand soldiers on parade
                    Drinking iodine to see the sour wine
                    Sent from overseas the Queen and I


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                    • #11
                      Re: wax in da ears

                      Anyone see the end of Bad Boys 2? The two are cruising in the pool singing the too familiar "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, whacha gonna do?..." etc. Then Martin Lawrence sings the main verse all messed up... that cracked me up because that's how I sing that part too.

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                      • #12
                        Re: wax in da ears

                        I thought Bachman Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care of Business" was "Take a Caribbean Trip." But only for about six years.

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                        • #13
                          Re: wax in da ears

                          When I was a kid, I thought that when the Clash were singing "Rock the Casbah", they were saying "Rock the Cat-box."

                          Another one that immediately comes to mind is Van Halen's "Panama." For some stupid reason, I always thought they were singing "Twenty-One" during the chorus, instead of "Pa-na-ma!"

                          I guess that even way back then, I must have thought local radio DJ's to be so inane that I didn't even pay attention to them when they'd blabber off the songs that they just played!

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                          • #14
                            Re: wax in da ears

                            Another Credence song:
                            My hubby sings "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise."

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                            • #15
                              Re: wax in da ears

                              Originally posted by Moto
                              How about England Dan and John Ford Coley's I really like to see you tonight,
                              I always thought the line was "I'm not talking about millenium" instead of "I'm not talking about moving in"
                              I thought it was "I'm not talking about a living." Like he wants to live off his girlfriend instead of making a living, I guess?

                              I've got a million of these!

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