music

I used to believe…

There's a (horrible) song by a band that my daughter listens to, and I thought went:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not forty

and the real lyrics are:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not horny

I thought maybe he thought that it was illegal to get those kinds of emails unless he was forty. I told my daughter, and she started laughing.

Hey, it's not like you can understand songs these days anyway.

I thought the Beach Boys song went 'Wouldn't it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn't have to wear a thong.' I sang it once while showering at a hotel and a whole line of people told me in the breakfast room the right lyrics. I still think mine are better.

I used to believe…

When I was about 5, I misheard the Frankie Vallie song "My Eyes Adored You" as "My Eyes of Gerogia" That was much too funny to my mother and she never let me forget my error. A few years later when Neil Diamond did the song "Forever In Blue Jeans" she thought she could trick me by singing it as "For Reverand Blue Jeans" but I never fell for it. I'm 38yo now and she still occasionally reminds me of it and she told my husband the story so he does it too. He's a dj so you can imagine the fun he has with misheard lyrics.

I used to believe…

My sister and I heard an old track of our dad's in which we assumed it was 'Love slap, la la, love slap, love slap.' We couldn't figure out why people were slapping each other in a loving way.

I used to believe…

When I was about 7 or 8 I was sitting in the back of the car singing along to a Blondie song and casually said to my mom, "Don't I just sound just like Debbie Harry". I think my mom spluttered something in the negative, although to this day I still think I sound just like Debbie Harry and put it down to jealously of my singing prowess on my mom's part

I used to believe…

When I was little, I used to sing along to the Paul Simon song, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover :
"Slip out the back Jack
Make a new bandstand
Don't need to be cordroy
Just just listen to me"
How was I to know that he said,
"Make a new plan Stan
Don't need to be coy Roy",
and that the whole song was about splitting up... although the title should have given it away. I just liked the idea of building a bandstand and not having to wear cordoy

I used to believe…

In 1963, an album came out called SUNNY SIDE, by The Kingston Trio. It included the group's last top-40 hit, "Desert Pete". Like many of their albums, it also included one rousing spiritual-type song, in that case a song called "Sing Out". One verse of "Sing Out" sounded, I thought, Like this:

Wake up to the trumpet sound.
I'm from the Great Shellai,
To see the chap with the glory crown
Uphill from flaming sky.

Years later, thanks to internet lyrics sites, I've been able to determine that the real lyrics are:

Wake up to the trumpet sound.
I from the grave shall rise
To see the judge with the glory crown,
A view from flaming sky.

I grew up in a not-so-religious family, so I generally expected to hear unfamiliar concepts in hymns and spirituals. I thought that "the Great Shellai" must be some religious concept that I didn't know due to my lack of much formal religious upbringing. It seemed intriguingly romantic and I hoped to learn what it was someday. I grew to be one of those kids who, in difficult situations would pray sometimes, even though I had formally learned little about prayer. I actually sometimes prayed to "God in the Great Shellai". I hope that never gave offense to anyone! As I grew up and learned more about religious matters I guess I was a bit disappointed to have to accept that "the Great Shellai", for all its intriguing sound, is probably utterly meningless!

I used to believe…

For years I 'misheard' Madonna's 'Erotic'and thought she was begging 'Hey Roddy, hey Roddy, put your hands all over my body'. Lucky guy that Roddy.

i used to think that the song "santa baby", had the lyrics "be an afful good girl santa baby" insted of "iv been an afful good girl"
you can imagin how red i was wen my friend told me the real words to the song. the most cringin thing about it is that i only found out last chirtsmas (2004) so all the times i sung it before i guess people wer just been nice.

I used to believe…

One of the "granny's" living on my street heard my transistor radio playing "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky". She wanted to know why anyone would write a song about "My Baby Has a Dirty Hanky!"

I used to believe…

When my uncle was very young he suddenly stopped singing in the middle of "My Country Tis of Thee", looked at his mother and asked,"So just where IS Tis of Thee anyway?"

I used to believe…

When my daughter was a pre-teen the song "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers was popular. She always thought the line, "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille - four hungry children and a crop in my fields." was "four hundred children ....."! She used to say, "That's really dumb - NOBODY has 400 children!"

I used to believe…

On pink's song God Is A DJ, I thought that it said 'God is a DJ, life is an a**hole' until i read this site and found out it's actually 'god is a DJ, life is a dancefloor', oops!

I used to believe…

This wasn't that long ago, but at a sleepover my friends and I were singing Just Lose It by Eminem and the part where he goes "Ahh, Dre, beer goggles blind" I thought it was "Ahh, Drake, beer bottles go flying!" We still crack up to that today.

I took my little 8 year old cousin to watch that Romeo and Juliet movie with Leonardo Di Caprio. When we came back home, we were watching MTV and then this Smashing Pumpkins video, "Tonight tonight" came on, and she thought Billy Corgan was Leonardo Di Caprio for some odd reason!

I used to believe…

My friend told me that for a long time she thought that the Rolling Stones song "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" was really "I Can't Get No Bitch in Action". Her version of it is actually better than the real one, it sounds more rock and roll.