What song lyrics did you "mis hear" as a kid?

Mine was I'm your Venus (Penis)

"by the dawn's early light"

she was 11 before she learned that a Donzer Lee Light was not a special kind of lamp.

"....stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from a BULB."

I thought the last line was not "Life is just a dream" but "Life is down the drain"...needless to say thats appropriate for someone who has always been a glass is half empty type person....:)

I thought "donzerly light " was a description of the light just before dawn.

Probably it was part of the curriculum of the time; we had to write down the lyrics when I was 5th grade, and that's where I got "donzerly."

:donut:

Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy - kids eat ivy too wouldn't you.

Yeah, that's a good one.

we all fall down (which is actually achoo achoo we all fall down cause the original was about the black death or something).

we all have a cold and will die from it.... I think.

the "sneezing sound" origins of "ashes ashes".

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

It doesn't ring as complete to me, what they are saying is that because it wasn't recorded in writing it couldn't have originated during the plague; most language went unrecorded for many centuries before it was written down but it certainly existed. They really don't seem to be taking into account that for much of that period only the upper classes were literate and the last things to be written down, in terms of importance, would have been children's limericks and jingles. Another thing they assert that is patently ridiculous is that it springs from nowhere in particular and refers to nothing in particular, if you know anything about language at all that is just not true, every idiom in just about every language no matter how non-sensical, at one time made perfect sense in the context of the chronological period and culture it arose in. I've always had an interest in the whole sub-cultural canon of rhymes that is passed from one child to another, it's like a whole other sub-set of literature operating right under our noses, and we forget about it because the work is passed from one child to another year after year orally and doesn't involve adults; when we grow up we forget all about this little world. A lot of the songs and limericks I learned as a child seem pretty archaic now, and even though at some point someone wrote them down in a book, I didn't learn them from a book, I learned them from other children. I'm really interested in the hand-clap songs that little girls teach each other in particular.

plague. Seems an event like that would carry a long memory - it was so huge for its time and affected everyone around the known world. But thanks. I'll take it as a grain of salt.

everyday!

I thought Tom Petty was singing about a real person, this Miss. Jane


/headslap

:shrug: :shrug: :hi:

"He just pissed all on the floor"

instead of "He Just Passed out on the floor"

....a '32 Ford?
anyway, not a douche..

"cut loose like a deuce" that would have been pretty obvious.

I was reading a singer's blog this week (Christine Kane) and she talked about always having thought that "After Midnight" had a lyric about "tall can suspicion" which I thought was funny; she was mis-hearing "talk and suspicion".

I always thought the lyric from "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers that says "4 hungry children and a crop in the field" said "four hundred children and a crop in the field". I didn't understand the logistics of it back then, I thought he was just stretching the truth.

What the hell was that about?!

Didn't find out the real lyrics until I was 21.

You know I read it in a magazine

Venus - Shocking Blue

as I'm deaf! ;-)


Can't one make fun of one's own disability?

:shrug:

On Edit: Yup, it is. http://www.lyricsdepot.com/dobie-gray/drift-away.html

I honestly thought they kicked Chuck Connors out of the cavalry for something he did with a cow

"What can you do when you're Branded?
Can you live witih a lie"

poor Chuck Connors! a coward! after his successful run as "The Rifleman" all those years....

"Branded" is an especially strange when you re-watch it as an adult. When I was in college, I used to catch it on late night broadcasts. Many of the episodes feature
Connors being stripped to the waist and horsewhipped
Connors reluctantly accepting a kiss from a grateful female
and, of course, there's that whole walking around with a broken sword thing...

Sometimes I wonder if Tennessee Williams moonlighted as a writer for the show just as a hoot

Goodnight, Bowzer!

Goodnight, Ginger!

How embarrassing.

:yoiks:

"there's a bathroom on the right"

"Just call me angel of the morning, angel,
Just pack my Jeep before you leave me, baby.."

"Feel a Whole Lot Better"

Well, let's just leave it at that.

CCR's "There's a bad moon on the rise".

It broke the crowd up!

"Jose can you see" (I know - shameless)

What about dat Doors song with "Stronger Than Dirt" the last three notes.

That's really what they said. Comes right after the sax solo. Darn my memory. Name of the tune on the tip of my tongue. What is it?

"Touch Me"

don't fear the reaper

:shrug:

Carly

they fucked servants too...Outside in the cold distance

:rofl: I misheard those lyrics from The Christmas Song when I was 7 or 8. It was so funny at the time that it's STILL the family joke at Christmas! :P Also, from Winter Wonderland, "In the meadow we will build a snowman...and pretend that he is Orson Welles..." :rofl: :hi: That's another running family joke!

purple haze all in my brain
lately things don't seem the same
actin funny and I dont know why
excuse me while I piss in the sky

All along the watchtower:
Business men they drank my wine
they come and take my herb
:hippie: :smoke:

Carly