Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: BK Lick
Date: 01 Sep 07 - 02:26 AM

Searched the Mudcat and I don't believe anyone's yet mentioned this very graphic bluegrass mondegreen -- someone heard the line "to me boys it was sad" in Bill Monroe's "Goodbye Old Pal" as "two meatballs in the sand."

—BK

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 07 - 03:28 AM

Christmas Carols.
We three Kings from Orry and Tar.
Even more embarrassing when off to the Isle of Man for the TT and sailed on the King Orrie.
Hang on, I might be right.

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 12:52 PM

How about Elton John whose "cat locked me in your penthouse" in his song "Yellow Brick Road". (Of course there are several other unintelligible phrases in that song...many of which I have YET to figure out!)

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: maeve
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 03:45 PM

"You can't lock me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough"

Here's a link for the nameless GUEST.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road lyrics


maeve

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: GUEST,Jesse
Date: 28 Apr 11 - 05:11 PM

Not from a song, but continuing the Religious Ceremony sub-thread from over a decade ago:

The first time a friend of mine attended a Lutheran Church, he wondered at the oft repeated phrase: "May the Pizza DeLorean bewitch you!"

Afterwards he asked and learned it was: "May the peace of the Lord be with you."

For years our group would greet each other with the DeLorean version.

-Jesse

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: GUEST,Norah
Date: 30 Oct 13 - 03:53 AM

Don't know if anyone's still looking at this, but I always thought In the Jimi Hendrix Verizon of "All Along the Watchtower" he sang "people stand here and drink my wine. Come and dig my herb. None will level, undermine nobody else in this world."

Actually he said (according to the lyrics I've read anywa): "Businessmen drink my wine. Plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

Subject: RE: Mistakes I Have Made When Listening To Songs
From: GUEST,Norah
Date: 30 Oct 13 - 03:59 AM

Jimi Hendrix version, not "Verizon". Oops.