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Sing the wrong lyrics?
Posted: Nov 10, 2007 in Music
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I am guilty of this all the time. Most recently someone I know was singing the lyrics to "Sexy back" incorrectly. Instead of "Go ahead be gone with it", he was singing "go heavy go." Way back when I was in college, a friend got the lyrics to "My kind of Lover" by Billy Squire wrong. She sang "My candelabra". Any other good ones out there?
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When I was little, we used to sing a song in Sunday School that's chorus went "A sunbeam, a sunbeam/Jesus wants me for a sunbeam/A sunbeam, sunbeam/I'll be a sunbeam for him." But, between my being deaf in one ear, and the others' lack of enunciation, I thought they were saying "zombie" instead of "sunbeam". So here I am with this big stupid grin on my face, doing all the hand motions, and singing "A zombie, a zombie/Jesus wants me for a zombie/A zombie, a zombie/I'll be a zombie for him."
When I was little, we used to sing a song in Sunday School that's chorus ...
Classic! I wish I would have learned that one in Sunday School :)
You guys know they have a book out (a couple I think) devoted to this phenomenon. It's called "Excuse Me, While I Kiss This Guy." Really. It's devoted to frequently-misquoted song lyrics.
Oh, and my sister, whose profile is located here (http://www.indy.com/people/jslicer), loved the song "Holding Back the Years" by Simply Red, whose chorus was "I keep holding on...I keep holding on..." She sang it "I keep odey-oh."
She'll love me for mentioning that here, but I already did it in an issue of INtake a few months back, so what harm is there in repeating it here?
I am completely guilty of the "Excuse Me, While I Kiss This Guy" one. I just recently learned it was the sky instead of a guy!
Joe you missed hearing your brother Justin singing (on the trip to Florida with Jill, Jamaica, Aunt Debbie and Uncle Bill ) as we all stood at the bathroom door and listened to him "Oh when the paints come marching in". I guess he was about 3 or 4 years old.
Growing up, I was real bad with the following two:
Thinking "Secret Agent Man" was actually "Secret Asian Man" and from CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" I used to think the chorus was "Don't go around tonight/Well, it's bound to take your life/There's a bath room on the right.".
Loved the commercial a few years ago with the guy singing, "Sugar fried honey butts." (i.e., Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).
There's a local Realtor, Kristy Smith, whose commercial jingle says "helping people on the move." Kids sing it as "helping people on the moon."