Favourite misheard opening line from a song

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The real lyrics are "Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet, boy", y'see...

Rob M, Friday, 27 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten months pass...
The most disappoint for me is Arab Strap's "The Shy Retirer."

I thought the first line was "Another blow-head disco," but their online lyrics say "another bloated disco."

I like my version better.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 28 July 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

dictators - "two tub man" - "i'm a pilgrim lookin for danger" - i thought it was "i'm too good looking for danger" which is a pretty great line in its own right.

duane, Monday, 28 July 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

I always heard "I'm gonna kill myself trying to stay in your life" in Blur's 'No Distance Left To Run', which is, er, the exact opposite of the real lyric. When I was a little I always wondered why Madonna was singing about a "young girl with eyes like potatoes" in 'La Isla Bonita', too.

The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 28 July 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

I just discovered that the opening line to H-Town's "Knockin Boots" isn't

"Last night I chawed tobacco
When we made gooood loooove"

but rather a much more uninteresting
"Last night I thought to back to
When we made gooood loooove"

OH WELL.

phil-two, Saturday, 19 April 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought David Sylvian sang "Oh Satan" repeatedly in the Nine Horses song Snow borne sorrow, but it was "Oh save them". I was very disappointed, thought it was a rather refreshing line.

ConnieXX, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

"Oss soss a soss soss chuck a budgie"

Dave Davies' "Susannah's still alive"

Mark G, Sunday, 20 April 2008 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link

six years pass...

"When you were on the phone, couldn't look you in the eye.."

Mark G, Sunday, 24 August 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

"Promised you a miracle, guinea pig's a beauty thing..."

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 8 September 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Midnight rockers
City slickers
Gunmen in Maine

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link

I went down to Miami, I let a girl name a salmon.

CRVTCHΞS (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

there's an obscure song by Ween based on a misheard opening line in an Aerosmith song (Last Child) - "take me back to a south pappy flappy"

frogbs, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link


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