You should have hit him with the Hummer Les Paul.

Damn them hummer drivers... I think a hummer would simply crush my 97 talon.

I am off to pretend like I am working some more.

Pony

ahhh, I am such the geek at getting lyrics wrong...oooh, why is Jimi talking about kissing a GUY....yuk!

jezzi

I can't think of any that I got wrong (not that there aren't any, but I can't think of any right now). There are some that I sing wrong on purpose, like Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" - I always sing
"There's a bad moon on the rise" as "There's a bathroom on the right"; and Santana's "Oye Como Va" - I always sing "Oye como va mi ritmo" as "Sugar cocoa Pops... I eat 'em".

hey all,

hasn't Dave got a hummer? - i'd be investigating if i was you!

sandy b
-x-

I can't think of any lyrics right off hand, but I know I've gotten lyrics wrong before. Anyway, I was reading Guitar World this weekend and they had a section where they listed some of their mistakes that have been printed over the years and one of them was the lyrics to the song "That Smell" the lyrics are "The smell of death surrounds you" and they translated it to "the smell of gas surrounds you." LMAO!! That would have been hilarious to have boughten that issue and read that!

Have a great day!
Karen

Back when I was a kid (long fucking time ago), my older brother listened to The Steve Miller Band who had a hit tune called "Jet Airliner". The chorus went something like "Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away". For the longest time I thought it was "Big ol' van with it's lights on, don't carry me too far away"...

More recently and Cult related, a friend of mine, (we'll call him "Leon" for sake of the story) thought "She Sells Sanctuary's" opening line was "Sex with her, makes my back burn" instead of "Heads that turn make my back burn"..

Nice topic Billy, kudos.

A good day to all.

Oh man, i'm great at getting lyrics wrong. too many to list. a master. (a pity this blog doesn't have the ability to add italics, so i could really emphasize the word "master").

The best i've come across however, was this kid i knew when i was like 10, who absolutely screwed the lyrics to AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds". Instead of singing the chorus as "...dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.." he sang "...dirty jeans, thunder jeep...". And he sang it with such conviction. He was so horribly off that i couldn't bring myself to correct him. the funniest part was hearing pre-pubescent youth trying to mimic the voice of Brian Johnson - winds up sounding like Donald Duck on steroids. Then again...Brian Johnson DOES sound like Donald Duck on steroids...maybe it wasn't that far off.

Hey Billy is "Dust" a homage to Little Britains fat fighter extordinaire Marjory Dawes. Have you even seen Little Britain yet, its like the bastard offspring of the League of Gentlemen and the Fast Show.

Anyway

"They gotta tell you who's right, tell me I'm wrong, two puppets, one hand and a heart felt song, we know."

Is the real deal, but I feel my version is better [only slightly]
"They gotta tell you who's right, tell me I'm wrong, two puppets, one hand and a half-assed song, we know."

I spent a lot of time calling Anthrax's "H8RED" H, eight, red. Now with the txting gnrtion I'd have seen HATRED straight away.

Also a Bass guitar is a Bass, as in ass, not Bass as in Base.

Hi everyone! Did ya miss me? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Anyway... Lyrics. Can't say that there are too many songs that I've been singing the wrong words to, cuz when I hear a song that I really like, I try to find the lyrics right away so that I DO get them right. Then again, if I was singing them wrong, I'd never know it cuz I thought they were right. But my sister is the queen of misheard lyrics. My favorite, which I've corrected her on more than a few times, is "Take me down to the very nice city.....". It makes me laugh every time, imaging Axl using the words "very nice" in a song. Or ever.

Billy, buddy...I feel for you. I heard about your little hit-and-run on Saturday night. Now, that I've found out that's a Beemer, it's even sadder. I'm family. Hey, doesn't it hurt when even a little pebble flies up and hits the windscreen?

I'm the queen of "miss-used" lyrics. I just let everyone know that it's what the writer wanted to say. I actually get mad when people correct me. Me...can you believe it!!

All I can think of in the wrong lyric story at the mo' is my Dad is a huge Eric Clapton fan.
He used to be one of those EC is God people.
My Dad and I used to drive around in my TR7 with the top down on Sundays, playing the EC tapes loud and singing. My Dad used to sing at the top of us lungs, "She's all right, she's all right, she's all right, she's OKAY!"

I kept telling him the real words, and I mean the song is called, "Cocaine" Oo

Lisa
hugs
xxxx

Billy~For a while, I've had this idea for a band pic; but there's no way I can do it personally. I can't think of a way anyhow!!!
Here it is~
You Doheny guys standing in a line naked holding white cardboard cut-outs of the dh sign (your dh logo) in front of your "manhoods"
(..for decency sake of course!)

Think that'll grab some attention, and show off the dh sign as well.

Lisa
xxxx

Hot as he is.. Lisa.. I am afraid if we try to put skinny butt Sean behind nothing but a dh logo.. he will look like one of those tooth pick flags you get stuck in your deli sandwhich.:O

my favorite misunderstood lyric story..
at a huge party.. everyone of course is trashed.. my freind Brian always exceptionally good at being an ass.. decides he is going to regale us with Led Zeppelin tunes.. all was well until he starts playing his air guitar and wailing... "You need Kool Aid.. Baby I got Kool Aid".. full on, yeah I am the man howling it.. lol.. 80% of us spit our drinks out thru our nostrils.

LOL El...

And Jay...WTF was "Leon" thinking? Sex with her makes my back burn?? Sex should NEVER make ANYTHING burn, but how do you work the back into that?? LMFAO!!

hey FH.....your post made me think of this brilliant Scottish comedian (now lives in California) Billy Connelly. He had this funny joke that goes something like this... " I don't wear a condom during sex, because I don't like the smell of burning rubber!"

well, ive been thinking about this question through the day today, and, well, can only think of a more or less unrelated pronuciatoion event of a song title.....and i'm dredging up a memory from many moons ago, but its kinda funny, hopefully to more than just myself too...so here goes. When I was about 8, i remember reading the back of the "KISS ALIVE" album, reading the title of the tune "C'mon and Love Me"...I remember saying this title over and over to myself, trying to decipher what the hell "c'mon" was and meant...being 8, I had never seen this 'word' before.... instead of reading it as "come on" I asked my older brother, (I'll type this phoenetically)...
" what does 'see mon and love me' mean? that's an odd name for a song"

my most notorious misheard lyric would be the opening line to the sesame street theme song. instead of "sunny days, keeping the clouds away," i would outright wail, "jahdee jaint, keeping the cows away!" daily. at the top of my lungs. after being repeatedly corrected. then again, i was 6 at the time.

more recently, though, i was convinced that in the hollie's "he aint heavy he's my brother," the word "laden" was "leaning," i.e. "if i'm leaning at all, i'm leaning with sadness."

EH~Will have to make a smaller dh logo for Sean then!!! :D

El LOL too funny. I can remember when I was only about 13 in jr high school, one of the most popular songs they played at our school dances was Love Hurts by Nazareth. I loved the song but didn't know it was called Love Hurts. I can remember this one time at a dance walking through the gym with my friends singing along with the song, course I was singing "love birds" rofl

aahhhh good times ;b

hugs,
me

Hey Jules,

happy birthday sweety, have a very very very good day!!!

tina

Awww, thanks Tina! I am surprised at people remembering my birthday. I better get ready for work...Have a great day all :)

JULIA!!!!!!Happy Birthday!!!

BILLY!!!
Can we get a shout out for the lovely Jules....?

love to the DH familia
jezebel(Girls on Film---Squirrels on Pills)

Happy Birthday!! Julia!

Happy Birthday to our little Luv Monkey!!

Have a good one Jules!