'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: Misheard Song Lyrics

[BurtWorm]

What are your stories?

[bif]

1. Here's a whole website devoted to this

http://www.kissthisguy.com/nav.html

My fave is "the girl with colitis goes by."

[IronLionZion]

31. let me light your chemicals "Hard to Handle"

Grateful Dean then covered by the Black Crowes

The real line is "Let me light your candle, cause"


edit: replied to wrong post

[foo_bar]

35. Grateful Dean?

Is that a freudian slip or an 80s punk act?

[IronLionZion]

38. It's a Freudian punk act

I meant Grateful Dead. n and d are pretty far apart on the keyboard. silly me!

[Anaxamander]

2. Mine is from MMMBop by Hanson:

The part where it goes

"When you get old and start losing hair"

I always thought said,

"When you get home it's a living hell."

[grannylib]

3. My late daughter was hilarious; she misheard not only lyrics but all sort

of other words...
The Who's "Eminence Front" was, to her, the "M & M Strut"

Nailclippers were "pincleepers"
Lawnmowers were backwards: "mowlawners"
And my favorite: Aunt Jemima was "Granny McKeena." Please don't ask; I have no idea where that came from!

[arwalden]

4. I Spent Four Lonely Days In A Brown NELLY Haze

[arwalden]

5. Suddenly It's Happened To Me ... MONKEY LIPS Can't Describe It

[BurtWorm]

7. Just curious: Did you think "What great lyrics!"

Or did you think, "What the hell is this woman singing about monkey lips for?"

[arwalden]

13. I Already KNEW That I Was Wrong... It Was Just Too Silly Sounding

But we all got such a laugh out of it that every time I hear CeeCee Penniston singing that song... we all sing the the words as "monkey lips".

-=Allen=-

[Az]

6. Well the thing is he did say that

Contract disputes had caused the band to be forced to accept a new member for part of their tour. During a recorded performance Jimmy turned around and sang "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" while glaring at the performer provided by the record label.

[BurtWorm]

8. Hellfire Up! (A song by the by Statler Brothers)

That song used to scare the shit out of me until I realized they were singing about a girl named Elvira.

Come to think of it, it still scares the hell out of me.

[Bertha Venation]

9. mealworms

My love
I'll never find the words, my love
To show you how I feel, my love
mealworms could not explain....

[Shopaholic]

10. The funny section on this website

has got to be the hymns. My favorite story--a little boy gets up in front of the church at Christmastime and sings "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" but he thinks the line goes, "Goddamn sinners reconciled"!

[gWbush is Mabus]

11. "Big Old Jet Had a Light On"

[Rowdyboy]

12. My old favorite "Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza"

[av8rdave]

27. There's more...

It's:

Hold me closer, Tony Danza

Count the headlice on the highway


av8rdave

[Rowdyboy]

32. LOL

I forgot that!

[Papa]

14. Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief

By ACDC. I was sitting in a movie theater years ago and my buddy was singing those lyrics. The actual lyrics I think are "Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap"

[jor_mama]

15. "Blue" (from the last year or two)

"I'm in need of a guy"

or

"I'm in need of a life"

[BurtWorm]

16. These are hilarious!

I don't know why, but I find myself absolutely defenseless against mondegreens (the official name of this phenomenon)! I'm at work and trying not to laugh out loud, and you're all making life very hard for me!

:D

[arwalden]

17. Rude Toilet Fifty-Cents

[BurtWorm]

25. I'll say!

[grannylib]

18. "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys always sounded like

'Bobber Ann' to me when I was little, and I could not figure out why anyone would name a kid that, or why anyone would want to sing a song about someone with such a dumb name...

[peekaloo]

20. went to a dance, looking for a man

saw Bobber Ann, so I had to take a chance....:dunce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. "Crystal" by New Order

"It was summer, now it's autumn" became "It was somewhere, now it's awesome". But I'm a foreigner, what's YOUR excuse? :spank:

By the way, is "awesome" really pronounced that way?

[BurtWorm]

22. I misheard a line in "Shadowplay" by Joy Division

The actual line is, "In a room with a window in the corner, I found truth."

For some reason I heard it as "In a room with a window and a toilet, I found truth."

I was actually disappointed to learn the real lyrics. I'd always thought that line (as I heard it) was perfect!

[FunBobbyMucha]

21. I fought the law

"Grapefruit rots in the hot sun!"

(Breakin' rocks in the hot sun...)

[peekaloo]

23. Looking for my dentures from 'Born to Be Wild'

[BurtWorm]

24. "Rip Her to Shreds" by Blondie

I misheard "she's so tall" as "she's so tough" and "You know her, Miss Groupie Supreme" as "You know her, Miss Groovie Supreme."

[scarlet_owl]

26. "There's a bathroom on the right".

I still sing "Bad Moon Risin'" that way.

[Burma Jones]

28. "I Had a Hard-On" and "Ted Weemer's City Thing"

which translate to:

I had a Hard Run - Bertha, The Grateful Dead

Did we miss anything? - Catapult, REM

[mitchum]

29. "A grape skin rots in the hot sun"...

As a kid, I thought this was the opening line of "I Fought The Law" I was familiar with "A Raisin In The Sun", so I just figured grapes in the sun was some kind of symbol for despair

[bmbmd]

30. Blinded by the light-

wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night.

[BurtWorm]

33. Me too! What is it really?

[bmbmd]

34. Blinded by the light

revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.

(I don't write 'em, just report 'em.)

[geniph]

36. Blinded by the Light is one of the most misheard songs

in history. "And little early gave her anus curly-whirly and asked if she needed a ride."

My personal misheard lyrics hall of fame includes the Go-Go's Our Lips are Sealed, which I thought for years was saying Honest Puppeile. I still don't know what Honest Puppiele means, but I thought it had something to do with juvenile dogs.

[NC_Nurse]

37. My son

thought that "the cross I bear" in that Alanis Morrisette song was "the cross-eyed bear" that you gave to me (You Oughtta Know).

Then there was "In Excelsis Deo" was "In eggshells they stay-o".

And of course, "She's gotta tick in her eye" by the Beatles.