'Paper Lace', cried a voice in the crowd; Mondegreen Thread

[Graham Murakami]

Gonna use my style; gonna use my sausage
Brass in Pocket

From memory, the real lyrics don't make much more sense.

[trans-chigley express]

One I posted recently in another thread regarding Barclay James Harvest's song Hymn about the crucifixion of Christ. For many years I heard:

"For this we killed him and made him a pie"

and then a revelation when I finally saw a lyric sheet:

"For this we killed him, nailed him up high"

[Corporate whore]

La Isla Bonita (Madonna)

Just like I'd never gone, I
knew the song
A young girl with eyes like potatoes
It all seems like yesterday,
not far away

That's also got Chop the goolies / Wild and free

And, 'last night I slept with some dago'

Which I thought was a bit risqué at the time.

[Charlie O.]

She's a muscular boy / A complete impossibility...

[Six String]

Robert Palmer - My anus in your face because you're addicted to love.

[eelpie62]

When the rainbow shares your dream you'll know.
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac.
Didn't know what she was really singing until recently.

[Quaco]

When the rainbow shares your dream you'll know.
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac.
Didn't know what she was really singing until recently.

Somebody else thought that was the lyrics too because the LP I had, which I got used, had that written onto the lyric sheet over the correct lyrics!

[Quaco]

Gonna use my style; gonna use my sausage
Brass in Pocket

From memory, the real lyrics don't make much more sense.

I think it's "gonna use my soft sell", which I think makes a good deal of sense. She's going to use everything, including subtle methods. But the lyrics that are on all the lyric sites say "gonna use my sidestep", which is strange. I have a friend who's in a cover band and recorded this song, and I guess they got it off one of the sites because that's what she sings, which is a bit sad.

[ConnyOlivetti]

There's the famous story of the Faust fan who heard J'ai mal aux dents/J'ai mal aux pieds aussi as Shempal Buddha/Ship on a better sea...

not only fans
http://www.lyricstime.com/faust-j-ai-ma ... yrics.html

[Charlie O.]

Gonna use my style; gonna use my sausage
Brass in Pocket

From memory, the real lyrics don't make much more sense.

I think it's "gonna use my soft sell", which I think makes a good deal of sense. She's going to use everything, including subtle methods. But the lyrics that are on all the lyric sites say "gonna use my sidestep", which is strange. I have a friend who's in a cover band and recorded this song, and I guess they got it off one of the sites because that's what she sings, which is a bit sad.

I always thought it was Gonna use my sassy...

[Thesiger]

I always thought it was Gonna use my sassy...

My thoughts too.

[eelpie62]

A pal of mine recently told me he always thought it went
"I'd rather see you in bed with a girl than to see you with another man."

Yet another mondegreen that (imho) is better than the real lyric.

[Charlie O.]

From David Thomas' The Book Of Hieroglyphs (p. 32):

I was bowled over the first time I heard the song by Tammy Wynette. "Stand by, Earthman," she sang. I couldn't believe it! Here, this country bimbo - as I perceived her then - had taken a standard tale of men and women in and out of love and transformed it across one simple chorus into a global indictment, a Fortean prophetic warning. My mind reeled. I thought, 'These country bumpkins have achieved postmodern while the rest of us are still wallowing in pre-industrial.'

In the way of these things, cover versions appeared. Subsequent iterations changed the chorus to 'Stand by your man.' I didn't understand and I was disappointed. I felt sorry for the woman - that her great accomplishment had been so deprecated.

Years later I discovered, in a very embarrassing incident, that the lyric had always been 'Stand by your man' and had never been 'Stand by, Earthman.'

[Billybob Dylan]

Gonna use my style; gonna use my sausage
Brass in Pocket

From memory, the real lyrics don't make much more sense.

I think it's "gonna use my soft sell"

I believe it's "gonna use my sidestep", not that that's any better.

[Snarfyguy]

When the rainbow shares your dream you'll know.
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac.
Didn't know what she was really singing until recently.

Somebody else thought that was the lyrics too because the LP I had, which I got used, had that written onto the lyric sheet over the correct lyrics!

I love secondhand albums that have been personalized by their former owner.

My copy of King Crimson's USA LP has somebody's weird liner notes written out on the paper sleeve along the lines of "Greeting, fans. Here's another one for you (etc. etc.)" as though it was a published piece. Eccentric spelling and grammar suggested a rather druggy author.

Kind of message in a bottle stuff.

[Captain Jazzmag]

I must confess
that night on the nest
is killing me now

Britney Spears, Baby One More Time

[Graham Murakami]

Gonna use my style; gonna use my sausage
Brass in Pocket

From memory, the real lyrics don't make much more sense.

I think it's "gonna use my soft sell"

I believe it's "gonna use my sidestep", not that that's any better.

Sausage is definitely the best then?

[Arthur Crud]

God save history God save your mad parade
Lord God have mercy - oh crumbs, I've paid!

....I'd forgotten how I used to think that's what it was

[bobzilla77]

Soundgarden: "I'm gonna drink my rustic Caaaaa-jun rum."

[Charlie O.]

Soundgarden: "I'm gonna drink my rustic Caaaaa-jun rum."

That's fabulous.