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From: Dayton,Ohio USA
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posted October 12, 2009 03:45 PM         

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This is a thread about messing up song lyrics and singing them loudly.

So My Mother was singing along to the jukebox in a restaurant we were at, like a year ago (have no clue why I'm thinking of it now) anyway, 'Drift Away', by Dobie Grey was playing.

Everybody knows that song right?

.....give me the beat boys, and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and drift away...

So MY Mother sings, loudly, mind you,

"give me the BEACH BOYS and free my soul.." oh, hahaha, I laughed so hard! She hasn't lived it down, now the grandkids call her and serenade her with that little ditty.

So what songs have you mangled, or been witness to being mangled???

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posted October 12, 2009 08:37 PM         

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That is so cute!!

I'm always messing up lyrics so I tend to play a lot of music that have no lyrics

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posted October 13, 2009 02:24 AM         

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I know about a girl who thought "summer of '69" first line about " i got my first real six-string" ... she sang LOUD "I got my first real sex dream"... Lmao!

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posted October 21, 2009 05:19 PM         

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Check out this site; it has a whole Archive of Misheard Lyrics, searchable by artist & song:

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Sunshine

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posted October 21, 2009 05:21 PM         

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Your mom's not alone on that one:

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Misheard "Drift Away" Lyrics

Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul....
I wanna get lost in your wheelbarrow and...
I didn't - I'm just correcting the site'...
Give me a Beast Boy and freeze control n...
give me the beach boys and free my soul...
Give me the beach ball......
Gimme the beach boys to free my soul...
Gimme The Beach boys and free my soul nI...

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posted October 21, 2009 05:45 PM         

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When I was growing up I always thought Pat Benatar was singing:

"Love is a Ferris Wheel" instead of "Love is a battlefield"

and although I thought it was a slightly strange lyric to come up with, I also thought it was pretty deep of her, because it CAN be like a ferris wheel going round and round (sort of like an emotional rollercoaster) not to mention ferris wheels are romantic rides to go on with your sweetie. I thought: "Right on, Pat!" (even though I hadnt ever had a romantic relationship yet, I seemed to know what she was talking about and could dig it) Whenever I heard this song I has visions of an amusement park that I used to go to as a kid and two lovers holding hands on the ferris wheel.

also:

Panama by Van Halen. As a kid thought they were saying "Animal" instead of "Panama" and that's how I sang it. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zm5c7mKjrQ

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posted October 21, 2009 05:48 PM         

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listen.....you'll hear it too.

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posted October 21, 2009 08:56 PM         

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And what do you do when you don't know the words to a song that your singing in front of someone? Hum? I just sort of cough during that part.

Did anyone know anything that Curt Cobain and Eddie Vedder were singing in the 90's?

I mean seriously, I had to look that stuff up. (:

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posted October 21, 2009 08:57 PM         

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"Gimme the Beast boys and freeze control???"

OMG, Mom will be glad to hear that one. That is fricken hilarious!!!

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posted December 01, 2009 07:39 PM         

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I used to think that ACE of Base song "I saw the Sign" was "I saw the SUN"

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You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." Journalist William D. Tammeus

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posted December 01, 2009 09:07 PM         

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lol

My favorite Nirvana song for years was "Lounge Act" and I used to think, when Kurt sings, "I'll keep fighting jealousy, Until it's f-cking gone" that he was singing, "I'll keep writing jealously; Jealous of f-cking God,". And in the Doors song, "People Are Strange", where he sings, "Streets are uneven when you're down," I thought it was, "Streets are run even when you're down." I think my lyrics are improvements.

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posted December 02, 2009 04:38 AM         

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Well for years my sister and I sang to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

"Spare him his life from this one sausagery"

And I had the embarrassing moment of someone saying to me when I was well in my 30's
"What did you just sing?
And I said full of confidence that very line

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posted December 02, 2009 12:43 PM         

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wheels, i much prefer "love is a ferris wheel" to the original!!

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