Is the AnneYPetey choir fictional? and other misheard lyrics

**Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:42 pm**

Billy Bragg used to do a spot in his live acts for his favourite mishearings of his lyrics. I always liked "a reggae band they called The Diggers" and "she's still got my donkey."

For quite a while I misheard a line in Oysterband's This Year, Next Year as "they guard their comfort like their garden gnomes" rather than "they guard their comfort like they're guarding gold." I mean, I knew it couldn't be right, but . . .

**Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:52 pm**

one of my favorites from memory is my grandmother thinking CCR's "Bad Moon On the Rise" was in reference to a nebulous "bathroom on the right"

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:53 am**

Billy Ocean.. Go and get stuffed

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:35 am**

Africa by Toto, "I left my brains down in Africa."

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:15 pm**

I must be a master of mishearing lyrics because most of the examples given here, I hear as well :oops:

**Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:24 pm**

A freind of mine sung

"If I should stumble, catch my phone" to Billy Idols Catch my fall.

Just wonder how he was thinking :lol:

**Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:41 pm**

The Stranglers song about Britain's new Prime Minister....Gordon Brown...

**Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:30 pm**

The Automatic - "what's that coming over the hill, is it a mazda?"

**Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:16 pm**

There's a really awful song by Shania Twain which has a line towards the end which genuinely sounds like "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night", which would of course have been a better lyric than any of her own...

**Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:20 pm**

nboldock wrote:There's a really awful song by Shania Twain which has a line towards the end which genuinely sounds like "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night", which would of course have been a better lyric than any of her own...

Yeahhh, now Car just feels starnge to sing :wink:

**Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:29 am**

The one Pogues lyric I first misheard comes from Fiesta. Instead of the bit about the doll decapitation, I heard:

"..As he balls her, he does it laughing,
And Maraud-O, He throws his body in the sea!"

I still like the "As he balls her he does it laughing..." and I intend to use it in some bit of writing or something somewhere. It wouldn't really be stealing, would it?

:lol:

**Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:07 pm**

For years I thought it was:

Transmetropolitan
In my eye!

Kinda makes sense, right?

**Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:25 pm**

meowhouse wrote:For years I thought it was:

Transmetropolitan
In my eye!

Kinda makes sense, right?

Makes a lot more sense than many of them.

**Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:41 pm**

It does! I just thought of it like there was a reflection (literal or figurative) of "transmetropolitian" (whatever that was) in his eye. Seemed logical.

**Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:21 pm**

Much much more logical than most mishearings! Like all the hours i spent thinking, for some reason, that at the end of Rain Street the words "brain freeze" are sung repeatedly. Don't ask me why. I have no idea. Isnt brainfreeze what you get from eating icecream to quickly?

Is the AnneYPetey choir fictional? and other misheard lyrics

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