Songs that you misunderstood the title or words....

excuse me while i kiss this guy - purple haze

In a gotta libido

Remember "Michael rowed the boat ashore"? Until I was like 12, I always thought it was "Michael robbed the butter store". :)

-Danny

In Manfred Mann's Blinded by the light, what the heck comes after "Blinded by the light ..........." 

Ah - a mondegreen thread
 
All Right Now by Free - Lets move before the raid the #$%* place (Lets move befor they raise the parking rate.)

Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love - You might as well face it you a dick with a glove.

Bob Dylan - All Along the Watch Tower - Business men they drink my wine, blind men dig my herbs (Plowmen dig my earth)

AC/DC - All Night Long -  She wants a fax machine (She was a fast machine)

ELP - Karn Evil 9. Guardians of a nuclear dawn (Guardians of a new clear dawn)

Old55


Hmmm... I always thought that All Along The Watchtower line was "dig my herb". I suspected it was a reference to pot.

Just played it to make sure - it's  "plowmen dig my earth" , for sure. I also played a version by Hendrix and he also sings "plowmen dig my earth"
 
It's probably like the "split up on a dark sad night" lyric in "Tangled up in Blue" so ofter heard as "split up on the docks that night" I read that Dylan often used the alternative line when playing live.

"Don't let your son go down on me" - Elton John

Part of a Stones song - What I thought I heard: "I laid her there for saying New York City"  - Real lyrics: "A late divorcee from New York City"

"Knights in White Satin" - Moody Blues

LJB


A mate of mine used to think it was "Everybody Wank John Tonight" - Wang Chung

Was his name John?

craigb


"Don't let your son go down on me" - Elton John
 

 
 
 
 

I am positive there's a line in the Starship song which does go "we built this city on cheesy rolls".

Beagle


"I can feel it coming in the air tonight...HOLD ON." Phil Collins

it's actually "Oh Lord"  - I didn't figure that one out until a couple of years ago!


(and the Manfred Mann one is actually "duece" but yes, they did say it like "douche")

Wow - I never knew the first one either (and have always agreed with the second!).

craigb


"Don't let your son go down on me" - Elton John

LMAO!!!!! Craig....lol....we used to do a skit with that years ago. Our singer used to come up to me in our cover band during the show and say "so Danny, what song you feel like doing next?" And of course I had to say the name of the song next on the set list. Well one time, the guys showed up early for practice and we put this whole thing together with that Elton John song and never said a word to him.
 
The next show, he comes up to me like he always does and says "so Danny, what song ya feel like doin' next?" And I say "how about that Elton John song" and he says "what Elton John song" and the drummer does a fill....babababababa splash....and we all sing in harmony "please let your so-o-on go down on me" and the drummer, who couldn't sing at all sings in in this funny voice answering "please let your son" and we had this whole skit of crazy words that went with it that I'll not repeat. LOL!
 
People totally lost it in the crowd. Like laughing until tears were streaming down their faces, dropping drinks on the floor...it was incredibly funny. All the while our singer is just sitting there in awe and didn't know what to say or do. At the end of it....he just looked at the crowd and says "well what do ya say to something like that....wow...you guys got me on that one!" And you know someone just had to yell out "FREEBIRD!" to which he responded "you can have all the free-bird you want in the mens bathroom." LOL! Needless to say he NEVER asked me what song I wanted to play again. LOL!!! :)
 
-Danny

craigb


"Don't let your son go down on me" - Elton John

From the same song; 'No more Augie Dogness'.

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