I just listened to Downtown Train on The Very Best Of Rod Stewart by Rod Stewart, and I swear he said "You wave your hand and they scatter like grapes." Lyricsfreak tells me he's saying "crows" instead of "grapes." That makes a lot more sense, but the visual is not nearly so amusing.
In the "scuse me while I kiss this guy" vein, I had a friend in high school who was convinced The Beatles were gay because he heard the chorus of I Want To Hold Your Hand on 1962-1966 (Red Album) by The Beatles as "I wanna hold your hand, man." He insisted he was right until I demonstrated -- yes, by singing and no, it was not pretty -- that they are not saying "man," but sustaining the word "hand" across several notes.
OK, these aren't in the cute 4-year-old mistakes category -- far less entertaining than that, I'm afraid! Both of these misheard lyrics are from Great Big Sea songs. The first is in Consequence Free on Turn by Great Big Sea. The true lyrics are:
Wouldn’t it be great, if the band just never ended
We could stay out late and we would never hear last call
We wouldn’t need to worry about approval or permission,
we could — slip off the edge and never worry about the fall
I've always heard that last line as "step off the edge and never worry about the fall." I was so convinced I was right that even after I read the lyrics on their official website, I lipread the next time I watched the concert DVD and darned if I didn't have to admit that the man is saying "slip." I like "step" so much better, because it implies a deliberate tempting of fate rather than an accidental one, which seems to fit the mood of the song better.
The second is in When I Am King on Something Beautiful by Great Big Sea. The last verse is:
The hero always saves the world.
The villains get what they deserve.
The boy will always get the girl
when I am king.
I've always thought it was "The poet always gets the girl." Three of the four band members were English majors in college, so I thought they were giving a nod to the sensitive guys who get stuck on the sidelines while the jocks get the girls. (And, yes, I suppose someone who is quibbling over the subtleties of a single word *would* think someone should throw the poets a bone!)
...used to substitute "Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!" with "Sugar bear, dino low, a thousdand act!"
Props to K.C. and the Sunshine Band for the entertainment.
Get Down Tonight on Get Down Tonight: Best Of T.K. Records by KC & The Sunshine Band
Blinded By The Light on Baby Boomer Classics: Electric Seventies by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
For years, I thought the chorus of this song started "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche..." Thankfully, I don't think I ever sang the song in front of anyone until after I'd figured out what the lyrics really are.
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