Song lyrics

My first wife thought it went "Cheese got a chicken to ride"...

I love the line in Lucy in the sky with diamonds about
'the girl with colitus goes by'!!

I remember someone singing Beelzebub has the Devil for a sideboard which means I can never hear Bohemian Rhapsody any other way.

And there's always Me ears are alight! Much better than Desmond's version We once had Desmond Dekker doing a concert for us and DH spent all evening dragging him out of the pub and back onto the stage!

We have always sung "Another one bites the duster" by Queen. We also sing "Mitch Miller, had a brother for a sideboard, yes", not a clue what it should be. We also think that the song referred to by Starling is, "sharing his life with a monstrosity".

Brilliant, much better than the intended lyrics!

Reverend in blue jeans - I feel so embarrassed - Neil Diamond

Thank you, Starling, I feel I've been vindicated. I shall make up a meaning for it.

OK have just listened to Golden Brown on Youtube - he definitely sings mancheroes...!!

The Stranglers Golden Brown, texture like sun....I always thought the next line was Lays me down with my mancheros. Never questioned what a manchero was. Then a friend pointed out that it was Lays me down, with my mind she runs. I like my version better.

And when I was 3, I fitted my little pal's name into a Sunday School hymn. Apparently I used to sing Ronnie Molar, Ronnie Molar, my cup's full of Ronnie Molar.

Peter Kay does a great sketch on misheard lyrics. Ever since I heard it, I can only hear the line in We Are Family - Just let me say for the record - as Just let me staple the vicar. And Duffy begging me for birdseed.

^Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night^

I'm assuming that a deuce is some kind of car in America (remember the Beach Boys did 'little deuce coupe, you know what I'm like). A runner - maybe a race? A delivery?

I once asked a friend what a certain song was and started singing it: cherry pie, cherry pie, no he can't see my (then had no idea at all); it turned out to be Pokerface by Lady Gaga and should have been 'Can't read my, can't read my, no he can't read my poker face'

I got it wrong on every level and not even a mention of cherry pies anywhere

Oh yes, and the Bee Gees "Ah, ah, ah, ah steak and a knife, steak and a knife."

Of course, there's always Credence Clearwater's "bathroom on the right".

Apparently:

Misheard Lyrics:

He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his pork sausages.

Original Lyrics:

He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his monstrosity.

suebailey I'm going through Bohemian Rhapsody in my head, can't think which lines you mean.

Does anyone remember a song about a Muhammed Ali fight in Zaire? Part of the lyric was 'in Zai in Zaire'. My friend's little girl used to sing ' inside, inside 'ere'. Grannyknot you have just enlightened me. I too thought it was 'like the corners of my mind' until now

I recently discovered that the Janis Ian song "At Seventeen" does not contain the phrase "those of us with rabbit faces". (Apparently it's "ravaged faces.")

Grannyknot I still thought it was "like" until I read your post!

So it's

^Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night^

- but what does it mean?

I always thought that too, Grannyknot! Now I'm wondering why...

I only just discovered (because my choir sang it), that Barbra Streisand sings "Memories, light the corners of my mind ...' I have for years wondered why the memories are like the corners of her mind.

My son always sang "I don't want no freedent,I don't want to pay a pound, I don't want no hard on lady ,......... to Wham.

Ah the world of the 'mondegreen' - the misheard words. With the lousy diction and sloppy word writing of the post-1950s song it comes as no surprise...

When DD2 was small she sang 'look at me I'm Sandra Dee, lousy whisper ginity . Even when we asked her to sing it again howling with laughter, she obliged, word for word.

Just looked it up - seems like we're both wrong, roses!

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Heehee! It's 'no time for breakfast' Ana though I like your version best.

Isn't that the same song that begins 'Wake up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast'?

Nobody knows the Blinded by the Light lyrics! Rugged up like a dushan?
Years ago when DD was about 5/6 she insisted that the Desmond Dekka song The Israelites was The Ears are alive. She sang it all the time and refused to believe me [at that age!] Should have known there would be trouble ahead.

I agree re Blinded by The Light. Sounds like 'wrapped up like a deuce you know a roaner in the night' Lots of the Bee Gees stuff too - I love the music but have no clue what they are saying half the time.