Ever mistakenly sing the wrong lyrics to a song?

[CCdrums]

Have you ever been singing along to a song and find out later that you were singing lyrics that were totally wrong? I've done it several times.

Instead of "Get your motor runnin'" in the beginning of Born to be wild, I thought it said "Hitchin' on a runnin'".....DOHL!

A friend of mine thought that "Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" was "Dirty deeds and their thunder chief"!....lol

How about you?

[MoonManTom]

I remember back in the 80s that alot of bands played the Fastway song, "Say What You Will", I am not sure if anyone to this day knows the true lyrics! Every band i saw do it, had different words

[Trucula]

I had a few guys sing the 2nd verse first!

I use to work with a guy that sang on the way to work...it was never right!!...LOL....I think he did it allot to be funny...I was like , "Who's Kevin???" He say, "What?"...."Well you sang: Knock-Knock-Knock on Kevin's Door!!"

[CCdrums]

I had a few guys sing the 2nd verse first!

I use to work with a guy that sang on the way to work...it was never right!!...LOL....I think he did it allot to be funny...I was like , "Who's Kevin???" He say, "What?"...."Well you sang: Knock-Knock-Knock on Kevin's Door!!"

LOL that's too funny!

[VENTGtr]

Lord ya. I sang "Backwater" by the Meat Puppets wrong for years.

At some point I actually looked at the lyrics and thought "Hmm. Not
even close".

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Many times.

[DrumAndDestroy]

this one's for brian...

we are 138 by the misfits...."we are one dirty ape"

[CCdrums]

In the Front we were doing Rebel Yell and there's a part in the middle where it breaks down before the lead and it sounds like he says "It's so long..it's so long I'm gonna suck it's head...." The actual written lyrics are supposed to be "Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair". We didn't know any better at the time and that's not how it sounds on the record, so we sang the "suck it's head" version and we laughed about it everytime that part came up in the song.

[moxham123]

There are several songs that I sang for years thinking I sang the correct lyrics only to find out recently they were wrong. Back when we did not have lyric websites to get the words to songs or they were not printed on the album sleeve, we had to keep putting the needle on the record and listening as closly as possible with ours ears next to the stereo speakers to decipher what was being sung. Unfortunately, many times, what we ended up writing down and singing were wrong.

Another thing that has happened to me a few times is when I have had a total mental block right in the middle of a song that I have sung hundreds of times and know the lyrics in my sleep. Since I know it so well, I was not paying attention and either totally forgot the words and had to make something up (or worse yet, mumble) or I have sung the right verses in the wrong order.

I have heard some bands completely butcher the lyrics to some songs and they are not even close and I wonder where they got those words; especially, when they do not make any sense whatsoever.

A song that it seems every band that plays it does not sing it right. Twilight Zone by Golden Earring. The correct lyrics are:

Intro:
Somewhere, early morning in a hotel room
there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate
has turned it's back on him.

It's 2am....

1st Verse:

It's 2 am (it's 2 am)
The fear is gone (the fear is gone)
I'm sitting here waiting (sitting here waiting)
The gun's still warm (the gun's still warm)
Maybe my connection
Is tired of taking chances

Yeah, there's a storm on the loose
Sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence
All circuits are dead
Cannot decode
My whole life spins into a frenzy

Chorus:
(2 times)
Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon’s been moved
Under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

(2 times)
Soon, you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

2nd Verse:

I'm fallin' down a spiral
Destination unknown
Double-crossed messenger
All alone
Can't get no connection
Can't get through where are you?

Well, the night weighs heavy
On his guilty mind
This far from
The border line
When the hitman comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
And, he says

(chorus)

[J Michaels]

www.kissthisguy.com

As in, "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy."

Alot of these are made up, but the site started as a collection of commonly misheard lyrics. Last time I looked at it, there were a lot of things on there that were obviously BS (that is, there's no way someone thought that's what it said), but you can check it out anyway.

"We are one dirty ape" - that's just too funny...... ENUNCIATE, GLENN! DAMN!

[todd17063]

how bout the famous CCR lyric mistakes??
" Hey there s a bathroom on the right" ( Bad Moon Risin)..lol

Or people singing " Excuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of the correct way which is " Excuse me while I kiss the sky " Now I'm sure Purple Haze is not a gay rights song...lol

[moxham123]

how bout the famous CCR lyric mistakes??
" Hey there s a bathroom on the right" ( Bad Moon Risin)..lol

Or people singing " Excuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of the correct way which is " Excuse me while I kiss the sky " Now I'm sure Purple Haze is not a gay rights song...lol

When John Fogerty plays Bad Moon Risin' live now, He actually sings "There's a bathroom on the right" in the last chorus of the song just to be funny and he makes it very obvious by emphasizing the words. I guess he figureed he might as well make fun of it.

[5stringlowb]

done dirt cheap or alla wierd al done with sheep
try it next time you do this classic song and see howmany drunk patrons notice !!!!!also at the end throw in do any euwe you want me too instead of do anything you want me too heheh!!

[YankeeRose]

Out of my three children, my youngest son's mishearance of lyrics has been the funniest. A few years ago, I was driving him and a friend of his somewhere and on the radio was "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray. Out of the back seat I hear this part of the chorus: "Give me the Beach Boys and free my Soul."



Most recent, "Night Moves", by Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. My son was singing at the top of his lungs to yet another chorus (Haven't we always been too, when we had the lyrics totally wrong? ), and I didn't believe it sounded quite right, so I asked him what he was singing. "Night Moose!" (It does kinda, sorta sound like that's what they're saying. )

The first one was cute, the latter had me LMAO, and I have LOL every time I've heard that tune since.)

[DirtySanchez]

Out of my three children, my youngest son's mishearance of lyrics has been the funniest. A few years ago, I was driving him and a friend of his somewhere and on the radio was "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray. Out of the back seat I hear this part of the chorus: "Give me the Beach Boys and free my Soul."

I thought that's how the song went for years. haha!

[bassist_25]

The chorus of Creep by Stone Temple Pilots goes...

I'm half the man I use to be
(This as I feel dawn fades to gray)

When I was younger, I use to think it went..

I'm half the man I use to be
(Lorena Bobbitt got to me)

And I figured the lyric "Bobby's got a gun," was "Bobbitt's got a gun."

I was using what cognitive psychologists call top-down processing.

[Plastered Bastards]

It happens every show

[Naga]

Heh... I think I butchered the Hell out of Sober the first time I was on stage singing with a band. It started sounding so bad even in my own half drunk head that I had to get down off stage at the end of the first chorus!

[BDR]

In the Front we were doing Rebel Yell and there's a part in the middle where it breaks down before the lead and it sounds like he says "It's so long..it's so long I'm gonna suck it's head...." The actual written lyrics are supposed to be "Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair". We didn't know any better at the time and that's not how it sounds on the record, so we sang the "suck it's head" version and we laughed about it everytime that part came up in the song.

Even if the words were actually "suck its head," I'd have to sing something different. That's one of my rules: Never sing about sucking a head.

r:>)

[DirtySanchez]

In the Front we were doing Rebel Yell and there's a part in the middle where it breaks down before the lead and it sounds like he says "It's so long..it's so long I'm gonna suck it's head...." The actual written lyrics are supposed to be "Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair". We didn't know any better at the time and that's not how it sounds on the record, so we sang the "suck it's head" version and we laughed about it everytime that part came up in the song.

Even if the words were actually "suck its head," I'd have to sing something different. That's one of my rules: Never sing about sucking a head.

r:>)

Yes Kids, RULE #1- Never mix business with pleasure.

[BDR]

In the Front we were doing Rebel Yell and there's a part in the middle where it breaks down before the lead and it sounds like he says "It's so long..it's so long I'm gonna suck it's head...." The actual written lyrics are supposed to be "Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair". We didn't know any better at the time and that's not how it sounds on the record, so we sang the "suck it's head" version and we laughed about it everytime that part came up in the song.

Even if the words were actually "suck its head," I'd have to sing something different. That's one of my rules: Never sing about sucking a head.

r:>)

Yes Kids, RULE #1- Never mix business with pleasure.

classic.

r:>)

[JackANSI]

Secret... asian man...

haha

[EyesOfAnguishbassist]

Yeah, then I realized nobody understood a damn thing I was screaming anyways

[CrossfireRadio]

Heres a Fun one... Can't say that I have actually heard anyone do it yet.. But .. It could happen...

Metallica - Sad But True

Misheard Lyrics:
Im your dream, make you real
Im your eyes when you must steal
Im your pain when you cant feel
Sand Patrol

Actual Lyrics:

Im your dream, make you real
Im your eyes when you must steal
Im your pain when you cant feel
Sad but true

[Ron]

"Jet City Woman" -> "Checks and appointments".