Lyrics that sound like something else...

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thomsk

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Here are a couple...:)

1) La Isla Bonita (madonna) - "young girl with eyes like the desert" sounds like "young girl with eyes like potatoes"

2) "Everytime u go away.....u take a piece of meat with you " (paul Young)
 
The original of these was:
"They have slain the Earl of Murray
And Lady Mondegreen."

It's actually :"They have slain the Earl of Murray, and laid him on the green."

So they are known as 'mondegreens'.
 
Aha -nice one!

So that's where the term comes from!

My contribution:

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy (kiss the sky)" Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze
 
DrM - excellent site,very good stuff. Many to browse....:) The type of thing to bring up down the pub, in all seriousness of course.
 
Not a song lyric but fadó fadó when we were in school, a christian brother used to be always giving out about the monk swimming in a prayer. We were confused until he mentioned the line.......
"blessed art thou a monk swimmin ".
Was always very careful in pronounciation after that . :)
 
Enyas huge hit years ago.
Actually was sail away, sail away, sail away..

sounded like sell a whale, sell a whale, sell a whale....
 
I initially heard the line:

"They choose a path where no-one goes" from Led Zeppelin's No Quarter

as, "*****es of hell that no-one knows"

Edit: Oops forgot about the censoring thing - hint: it rhymes with "witches"
 
"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucillle" My young sister at the time thought it was "You picked a fine time to leave me loose heal".
 
I always wondered, when I was younger, what a load of knights were doing riding around in white satin (Moody Blues).

It was a few years later that I recognised my mistake. :eek:
 
Me it was Golden brown thought it sounded spanish my mancheros(whatever that meant) but it was
Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
only found out a month ago
 
Johnny Boy said:
Me it was Golden brown thought it sounded spanish my mancheros(whatever that meant) but it was
Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
only found out a month ago
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Aaaaaaaaaah. So its not mancheros- always wondered.

What about Bohemian Rhapsody - "spare him his life from the warm sausages?"
( monstrosity)

mf
 
From Removables by Manic Street Preachers

He sings " a bronze moth dies easily"

I hear " I bronze my thighs easily"
 
Bob Marley - Is this love

We'll be together with a roof right over our heads, I always sang we'll be together with a roof rack over our heads.....

Also sang my mancheros for Golden Brown.....

Macy Gray....I try
My world crumbles when you are not near sounds like I wear goggles when you are not near
 
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