Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
Ella Langley : Choosing Texas
“she’s from texas I can tell by the way he’s goose-stepping round the room”
My daughter when she was young: “All the other kids better run, better run, faster than my brother.”
I know the super trooper.
Lights are gonna find me.
That little pause confused me as a kid, not knowing what a “super trooper light” or that a thing like that exists.
Apparently when I was 3, the song, “If you’re gonna play in Texas,” by Alabama, came out.
I heard, “If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a parallelogram.”
When I was about 10, instead of “smoke two joints”, I thought it was “spoke to Joyce”.
I spoke Joyce in the morning I spoke to Joyce at night I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon it makes me feel alrightI spoke to Joyce in time of peace and too in time of war I spoke to Joyce before I spoke to Joyce and then I spoke some more Spoooooke to Joyce that’s what I do!My mom laughed for 5 full minutes when I told her.
LIBERATE! BANANAS!
Are you telling me after all this time, that Slipknot DIDN’T write a song about the oppression in the Chiquita banana Republic?
Empire state if mind:
New York, Concrete jungle, w et dream, tomato.
I don’t think Nikki Minage (spelling?) meant to say: “I want you to fart on my young”
In the song Brown Eyed Girl:
Whatever happened
to Tuesday and so slow
Gun down the old man with a
transistor radio
I was picturing someone holding out a radio in front of them, brandishing it at the old man like how you’d wave a cross at a vampire. The old man doesn’t like that newfangled rock and roll music, so they’re shooting the sound waves at him to scare him off.
(It’s “going down the old mine with a transistor radio,” but whatever.)
The really incredible thing is that the song was originally called, ‘brown skinned girl’ but he changed the title in what’s considered a very lucky move.
Same thing with the Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar, which was originally ‘black pussy’.
It’s a different category, as they’re not misheard lyrics, but yeah
Misheard lyrics, also called ‘mondegreens’.
I have a friend who thought Sinead O’Connor must’ve been a mechanic.
Every time she heard the song"Mandinka" she would sing along with it.
And I do love, mending cars
Chop Suey:
Why’d you leave the kids upon the table?
I still sing it like that for the absurdism.
Given the chaotic energy of that song, that wouldn’t be far off.
Still a good question.
Hahaha I always mishear “Rock the Casbah” as “F*ck the Casbah!” Which seems more rebellious and more in line with the spirit of the song.
My fave when this subject comes up: “last night I dreamt of some bagels” as the opening line to La Isla Bonita by Madonna
I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.
It’s far less hard core that way.
Like at least try to get one rock in during the afternoon
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My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.
Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”
You’re correct, he started occasionally singing “kiss this guy” live after someone pointed the mondegreen out to him and he found it really funny.
