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Saturday, February 4. 2012

Excuse me while I kiss this guy: The Mondegreen Files

A re-post:

I must confess I always thought the Rascal's Groovin said "You and me and Lesley" - figured Lesley was either a dog, or a reference to a menage a trois, or his little sister. Neo's "Sugar fried honey butt" for "Sugar pie, honey bunch" (Four Tops) gave me a giggle. There is a website devoted to mondegreens: Kiss this guy.com. Also, "A girl with colitis walked by" was a pretty good one, too, Sippican: a good nose for them gastro-intestinal mondegreens.

My favorites from my own ears are "Lead us not into Penn Station, but deliver us from evil," and "Rain, rain, go away. Come again on Mother's Day."

And the Stones' "Hey, hey. You, you - get off of my cow."

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the cow. beer out my nose, onto my keyboard. thanks a lot.

#1 Alan on 2006-06-25 17:51 (Reply)

I just recently learned that ABBA was NOT singing:

Olly oxen free
Take a chance on me

#2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2008-07-06 12:27 (Reply)

Get out my cloud baby. heh.

THE ROLLING STONES - LIVE IN 1967 - GET OUT MY CLOUD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss02sfQinxI&feature=related

#3 Patina on 2008-07-06 12:43 (Reply)

To get the full impact you need the entire refrain.

England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies ride bicycles two by two
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben
The rosy red checks of the little green men.

#4 Alan Kellogg (Link) on 2008-07-06 13:22 (Reply)

"Everyone's got toothpaste on the demons." (Third Eye Blind)

Link whoring: I posted on this two months ago, with special reference to Incense and Peppermints. Steven Pinker draws some interesting conclusions about language and thought from the phenomenon.

Your anti-spam measurements rejects my "blogspot," so I will say that the link is from April 29.

#5 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2008-07-06 14:11 (Reply)

Whore all you want!

#5.1 Bird Dog on 2008-07-06 19:16 (Reply)

One time after I complained about Maggies Farm’s anti-spam rejecting posts with links, some helpful commenter pointed out that he had solved the problem of a link being rejected by the anti-spam machine by adding text after the link.

AVI's link gets by the spam-o-meter.

Link at the end of a post: rejected
Verbiage/text added after a link: not rejected.

Verbiage: it's not just for frustrated drama/medieval lit majors. It's also for combating overly stringent spam-o-meters. [Though a sentence or two should suffice.]

Regarding misunderstood lyrics, I am reminded of the time in South America when I was requested to translate the lyrics of some US rock song. My reply: I have no idea what they are saying in English. Louie, Louie is not the only such song.

#5.2 Gringo on 2012-02-04 16:29 (Reply)

Don't forget the republic, for Richard Stanns.

#6 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2008-07-06 17:53 (Reply)

"...From sea to Chinese sea."

#6.1 Elizabeth on 2008-07-07 10:26 (Reply)

Related:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/05/as-fuel-prices-soar.html

(Scroll down to photo, which declares, "Oh the huge manatee!")

#7 Jephnol (Link) on 2008-07-06 18:38 (Reply)

Our Father, Who art in heaven, Harold be thy name.

Amen.

#8 Jephnol (Link) on 2008-07-06 18:40 (Reply)

...Blessed art thou a monk swimming...

#8.1 Will B. Dunn on 2012-02-04 13:21 (Reply)

Here is another site of Mondogreens.

But the antispam thing won't let me post it.

popculturemadness dot com slash Music slash Misunderstood

#9 geoffb on 2008-07-06 22:31 (Reply)

Don't go out tonight..
There's bound to be a fight
There's a bathroom on the right..

#9.1 LibraRising on 2008-07-07 11:10 (Reply)

My siblings never let me live down my mentioning Cat Stevens'
"G String" I thought he was singing about his guitar.

#10 Mark on 2012-02-04 13:27 (Reply)

That's a great site for misheard lyrics. However...

The first concert I ever went to was Jimi Hendrix in the City Park Stadium in New Orleans (it had to be 1967 or 1968). Of course, they played "Purple Haze", and when they came to the place where it says "Excuse me while I kiss the sky", Jimi turned to Noel Redding and Noel turned to look at Jimi and Jimi did sang:

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy!"

Maybe he was poking fun at the people who misheard the lyrics, but I wonder because it wasn't that long after "Are You Experienced" came out so I wonder if there were that many people who misheard the lyrics. Maybe he was just tweaking the crowd. Who knows, but at least that one time, he DID sing it that way.

#11 mudbug on 2012-02-04 13:39 (Reply)

I'm the author of a book on Jimi, and I can confirm there's nothing wrong with your memory, Mudhog. He did that with Noel many times as arunning gag/ Bet it was a good show too. I'm too young to have seen Jimi live.

#11.1 Jude (Link) on 2012-02-05 11:19 (Reply)

"Love Meat Tender"
--Elvis

#12 buddy larsen on 2012-02-04 14:56 (Reply)

--that was the first line. The last line,
"...just remember I love you, and I all weigh swill."

#12.1 buddy larsen on 2012-02-04 21:31 (Reply)

I thought the refrain of John Mellencamp's "Authority Song" was:

I'll find Dodie, Dodie always will

rather than

I fight Authority, Authority always wins

#13 david foster (Link) on 2012-02-04 16:21 (Reply)

From IMDB : Zooey Deschanel personal quotes...[interview in "In Style" magazine, 9/06] The first album I ever got was "Like a Virgin". It was during the Iran Contra conflict-I thought she was saying, "Like a Persian".
Too funny.

#14 Cornbread on 2012-02-04 16:45 (Reply)

And then there's Gladly, the cross-eyed bear...

Jose, can you see?

#15 Sam L. on 2012-02-04 23:33 (Reply)

Thirty thieves and their thunder chief (ac/dc)

#16 model_1066 on 2012-02-04 23:54 (Reply)

two of my personal faves: The Eagles' 'Life in the Vaseline', and from Journey, "Here I am with broken arms..."

#17 LilAnnie on 2012-02-06 00:12 (Reply)

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