10 Most Misheard Song Lyrics

[Gail]

I don't know if Elton John ever had a thing for Tony Danza, but even I know that one wasn't right!

From Huffpost:

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Misheard song lyrics are the stuff of legend, with Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" being a canonical example of what happens when inflection doesn't go as planned (no, it's not "hold me closer, Tony Danza"). Spotify tried to lend a touch of science to our collective inability to hear certain lines as musicians intended them, and conducted a poll to identify the most misquoted song lyrics of all time.

Coming in at No. 1 on the list is Manfred Mann's Earth Band, who's "Blinded By the Light" is often mistaken as including the line "wrapped up like a douche when you're rollin' in the night." The actual line? "Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."

Take a look at the Spotify's Top 10 Misquoted Song Lyrics below and stream a playlist of the mistakenly catchy tracks. What lyrics do you struggle with the most?

1. Blinded by the light...wrapped up like a douche when you're rollin’ in the night / Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Blinded By the Light) – 52%

2. ’Scuse me, while I kiss this guy / ‘Scuse me, while I kiss the sky (Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze) – 19%

3. Rock the cat box / Rock the Casbah (The Clash, Rock The Casbah) – 14%

4. Hold me closer Tony Danza / Hold me closer tiny dancer (Elton John, Tiny Dancer) – 13%

5. There’s a bathroom on the right / There’s a bad moon on the rise (Credence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising) – 12%

6. Take me down to a very nice city / Take me down to paradise city (Guns N’ Roses, Paradise City) – 10%

7. Animal! / Panama! (Van Halen, Panama) – 9%

8. Like a cheese stick / Like a G6 (Far East Movement, Like a G6) – 8%

9. Don't go Jason waterfalls / Don’t go chasing waterfalls (TLC, Waterfalls) – 7%

10. I blow bubbles when you are not here / My world crumbles when you are not near (Macy Gray, I Try) – 4%

[cricket]

Blinded by the light is sure one of those songs that has a whole lot of weird lyrics. Can't even begin to tell you what I thought these words were, " And little early-pearly came by in his curly-whirly. And asked me ..."

[Gail]

ROFLOL-- So true!

[nuff sed]

I have never heard of a single one of those songs... Nuff Sed

[Hair]

Steve Miller Band - Big old jet Airliner - I used to think they were saying "If we go down in a line-up" - you know like a police line-up lol

Foreigner - I'm hot blooded, check it and see" - My friend use to argue that it said "Hot blooded chicken in the sea". lol

Cliff Richard - "Its so funny how we don't talk anymore" - Another friend used to sing it, "Disco parties, why we don't talk any more"

Rolling Stones "Angie" - for years I thought he was saying "Angel" - I just got that one like a few years ago. lol

Probably one of the most famous of all - Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - "In the Garden of Eden"

My friends and I at work laugh about these all the time. There's a million of them.

What about that Michael Jackson song? "Ima same momma sa ma mocusa" or something like that? lol

Cool post Gail

[Gail]

You must have been in Asia at the time... Either that or your age is showing!

[Bravus]

Blinded By The Light was written (and originally performed) by Bruce Springsteen, and yeah, the lyrics are (intentionally) pretty strange.

This one makes me smile:

[Bravus]

Half-tempted to... in fact, I think I can give in to this harmless temptation:

I'll post these 10 songs here, for the amusement of all, and Nuff Sed can repair the gap in his experience, if he so chooses...

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[Gail]

@ Hair-

Yes, I know, and the funny thing is that we weren't little kids getting it wrong, either, but all grown up!

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[Gail]

*GASP* Is that real footage of Sir Elton's REAL hair?

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[Bravus]

This is the only one that's new to me.

And, for this context, I feel like I should include a 'cleavage warning'.

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[Gail]

Sing, women, sing for the year

Sing for the love and sing for the tears/

Sing with me, sing for the years

Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears

[Bravus]

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Probably one of the most famous of all - Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - "In the Garden of Eden"

Wasn't there a legend that that was the original lyric but his diction was so bad that they ended up just embracing it and calling the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

In that case maybe it's mis-sung lyrics.

[Hair]

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Probably one of the most famous of all - Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - "In the Garden of Eden"

Wasn't there a legend that that was the original lyric but his diction was so bad that they ended up just embracing it and calling the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"?

In that case maybe it's mis-sung lyrics.

Yeah! - the reverse

[Hair]

Oh, I just thought of another one.

"he's a cold hearted snake" by Paula Abdul - had a buddy that thought it said "he's a cold hearted slave"

[Hair]

Sing, women, sing for the year

Sing for the love and sing for the tears/

Sing with me, sing for the years

Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears

Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away... la la la

Now you got secular music stuck in my head - shame on you!