music

i had seen many old musicals when i was a kid and i thought that people randomly made up a song at any time.
i had heard stuff about the 'good old days' and i thought that over time people were getting less creative so they cant judt make up songs like that anymore.

I used to think the Dexys Midnight Runners song "Come on Eileen" was "Mohamed Ali" and I always wondered why they sang about it but I couldn't find out because I didn't know the title or who the band was...
So I just added it on my itunes as "Mohamed Ali" by "Watchamacallit" until I saw the show "100 greatest 1 hit wonders", I was so happy to finally find out what they were saying.

I used to believe…

The song 'Sway' by Bic Runga, goes like this

"Indeed, its time I tell you why, I say it's infinitely True..."

For years I was singing,

"Indeed, its time I tell your why, I say its in from the kitchen."

I used to believe…

AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirty Cheap)" -- I always thought it was "Dirty Ds and the Thunder Chief".

Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" -- for some reason I thought Bob was singing, "The ants, my friend, the ants are blowing in the wind". Hmm..

I used to believe…

When i was verry little i used 2 think that when i had a song in my head that i was really hearing it and that it was cos the band was practicing 2 loud
i would actualy complain 2 my mom that the backsteat boys wer practicn 2 lout
the bad part is i b-lvd this till i was like 9 lol

I used to watch a kids game show called Fun House when I was little, I though the theme went; "If you want it and you know it and you wanna play the game."
The words actually were; "Use your body and your brain if you wanna play the game."

I used to believe…

Part of the UK National Anthem goes:
'Send her victorious, happy and glorious'
I thought it said:
'Send her Victoria, happy and Laura'
As there were some twins in my class called Laura and Victoria, this sort of made sense, though I wondered how on earth they had made it to the national anthem.

I once heard some lyrics from The Human League's best known song "Don't You Want Me" as "Swish your legs to find" instead of "It's much too late to find". Listening to that song today I still have trouble hearing the proper lyrics at that spot.

I also heard the first line to their later song "Soundtrack to a Generation" as "First melody can only be be that way" when it's "The smell of trees".

I used to believe…

I was just reminded of my version of the Bohemian Rhapsody passage that goes:

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me

here´s my one:

Beelzebub, as the devil, bought a cycle for me

I used to believe…

My dad told me he was in a contest to see who got the lyrics right for 'Blue' by Eiffel 65. My dad told me that his friends said stuff like 'if I were green I would die' and 'i'm so very high' and other stuff! =D LOL!!!!

I used to believe…

for the song cotton eyed joe i thought the lyrics were
" bed im for knee cotton eyed jo ive been mary a long time agowhere did u come gum where do you mow"
the real lyrics are
"If it had't been for Cotton Eye Joe
2x + 2x I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe "

I used to believe…

My boyfriend had another song by the spice girls that he did his own rendition of, this time it was "2 Become 1" and instead of the real lyrics that were..

"I had a little love, now i'm back for more"

He kept on singing....

"I had a little dove, now he's splattered on the floor "

I used to believe…

My boyfriend is always making up his own silly versions of songs, but the best one I've heard so far was his rendition of 'Wannabe' by the spice girls because instead of the real lyrics, which are.

If you wanna be me lover
ya gotta get with my friends
Make it last forever
Friendship never ends

He sang....(wait for it)

If you wanna be my plumber
Ya gotta have a monkey wrench
Fixin pipes forever
Flooding never ends

This he followed up with....

Send your buddies down and buy us all a round.

And the Zig a Zig ah bit he sang as...

I wanna, I wanna really, really.........big fat cigar!

I used to believe…

We were at a family party and well it was my sister (honest).because she was warbling away to the song by WHAM called "wake me up before you go-go" the thing is tho is that she was singing it as "wake me up and give me cocoa"

She sang it like this for years. it was only when we were much older and at another family party did she eventually realise (cause everyone was in tears) that she had misheard it. The conviction and feeling in the words really triggered us all off big style!!

I used to believe…

Knights in White Satin - what a beautiful song! I imagined many knights and their ladies, all dressed in white satin, of course, dancing to its tune. When I learned the song was called Nights in White Satin, though, the lyrics made a lot more sense to me.

I used to believe…

Don't let the sun go down on me'

but I heard them as

Don't let your son go down on me'

Around the time that he (CAME OUT - I guess is the politically correct terminology) admitted how gay he was, I was talking to a crazy friend of mine (Elton came out, not my friend) who knew all the Elton John lyrics from back then, and I mentioned that it was no wonder that he sang about somebody's son going down on him, and how prophetic that was, when my friend laughed hysterically and corrected my mistake. I had been happily singing along for years, thinking all the time how gay Elton John must be, Oh, well.