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Post by Pistol Pete on Aug 13, 2014 14:04:10 GMT -5
Inspired by the above video I thought it might be fun to have a thread to share some of our most hilarious/embarrassing misheard lyrics. Technically if the 'wrong' lyric is better than the original it becomes a mondegreen - a term coined by author Sylvia Wright after she spent years believing the last line of a folk ditty was " they hath slain the Earl O'Moray and Lady Mondegreen" when in fact it was "they hath slain the Earl O'Moray and laid him on the green".
I must admit I've been known to throw in "there's a bathroom on the right" when covering Creedence, just to see if the audience are still awake.
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Post by Pistol Pete on Aug 13, 2014 14:08:42 GMT -5
Ok here's one of mine. Myself and a school friend spent years appreciating what a clever line "all I can do is read a book to stay awake and enrich my life away", from No Rain by Blind Melon was, before being discovering maybe ten years later the line is actually "it rips my life away".
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Post by Steven B on Aug 20, 2014 3:35:38 GMT -5
A misheard lyric from my most hated song of all time.....The Lion Sleeps Tonight.....
............."my wiener's wet, my wiener's wet, my wiener's wet.........."
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