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    Re: Misunderstood lyrics

    There is a term for this phenomenon, and it is a 'Ladymondegreen', after someone thought that was the line when it actually said 'laid him on the green'.

    For years as a kid I sang 'Bumbading Badonna' to the opening line of UB40's Ivory Madonna

    I also made up a word to fit the Stranglers classic 'Golden Brown' with the line 'with my mansheerun'. A relative of Ed Sheeran perhaps? I looked up the real lyric a few years ago.

    A more recent one I had debunked by my GF was my decades long belief that Feargal Sharkey sang 'A good heart it says is hard to find'.

    Although revenge was mine the other day when I explained that Wham sang 'Fun and sunshine, there's enough for everyone, all that's missing is the sea' but she had always just mumbled nonsense to fill that last bit.

  2. #27

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian gibson View Post
    Elton John - candle in the wind, "goodbye aubergine"
    You must have been posh. We'd never even seen an aubergine in 1972.

  3. #28

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric The Blue View Post
    You must have been posh. We'd never even seen an aubergine in 1972.
    They were plain old eggplants back then, before the divisive rebrand.

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    Re: Misunderstood lyrics

    Another ABBA one - I remember thinking the first line from verse one of Super Trouper was:
    I was sick and tired of everything
    when I called you last night from Tesco

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric The Blue View Post
    You must have been posh. We'd never even seen an aubergine in 1972.
    They were sold on the outdoor market on the Hayes in the late sixties/1970. My brother was amused by them and brought one home. He told me that it was an 'ormagee' (as he understood it from the stall holder) and included images of it in his cartoons.
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  6. #31

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arfur Europe View Post
    They were plain old eggplants back then, before the divisive rebrand.
    See my post above.

  7. #32

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    So I would like to know where you got the( nose from) notion

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    Re: Misunderstood lyrics

    Quote Originally Posted by jeepster View Post
    Purple Haze,
    excuse me while i kiss this guy.
    You mean they're not the right words??? Bugger!

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    The marbles that you ate. (are standing in the hall) Elvis

  10. #35

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    Taylor Swift sings in one of her songs about 'Starbucks lovers', in Blank Space. Don't know what the real lyric is, it's not Starbucks though.

  11. #36

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario Miethig View Post
    Taylor Swift sings in one of her songs about 'Starbucks lovers', in Blank Space. Don't know what the real lyric is, it's not Starbucks though.
    I thought the same when I first heard it and had to Google to find out what it was on about. Turns out that it's very common to hear Starbucks lovers.

    It's really something like a big list of ex lovers, but she changes the vowel sound in 'of' to 'are-v'.

  12. #37

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vimana. View Post
    Another ABBA one - I remember thinking the first line from verse one of Super Trouper was:
    I was sick and tired of everything
    when I called you last night from Tesco
    The very first line was "Super trouper beans are gonna bind me"

  13. #38

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vimana. View Post
    Some posts in the 'SOS' thread got me thinking..

    Misunderstood lyrics that you (or somebody you know) has actually sung - aloud or just in your head.

    Got any howlers that you want to admit to?!

    I always though the operatic bit in Bohemian Rhapsody went: "Beelzebub's put a telephone aside for me"

    Go on - post your worst mistakes
    kenny rogers,you picked a fine time to leave me loose heel,also I'm just a half stoned cowboy

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    Re: Misunderstood lyrics

    Another one came to me -
    I remember having a holiday job in a hotel kitchen as a lad and one of the chefs used to like to sing very theatrically and loudly in a laaahd cockney voice while he worked.
    A particular favourite of his being Bowie.

    Ziggy Stardust developed some kind of Attenborough-esque theme:
    "Like a Leopard Messiah" ' and "makin' luv to his eagle", "while the flies tried to break our bowls"

    Most lines delivered with a pwopah Cockney flourish-aaaah at the end.
    Happy times ;)

  15. #40

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    R.E.M. song "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"

    I thought the lyrics
    "Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her" were

    "Calling Cheryl Baker, calling Cheryl Baker"

  16. #41

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    Beach boys:

    "And she'll have fun fun fun til her daddy takes her teapot away"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHErN3dOkc

    Kenny Rogers:

    "400 children and a crop in the field"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JgdxaS3sU

  17. #42

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    A couple of Queen ones -

    Down in the dungeon with Peters and Lee (Now I'm here)

    She keeps a mower and shotgun in a pretty cabinet (Killer Queen)

    I like this one

    There's a bathroom on the right (Bad Moon Rising)

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