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Title: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: tangle tooth on June 06/13/24, 12:48:14 PM
      Have you ever realized you've been singing the wrong lyrics to a song? I've done it quite a few times, actually.
      My most recent is "Edge of Seventeen" by Fleetwood Mac. I thought Stevie Nicks was singing about a "one winged dove". I kept picturing a dove flying around in circles.
      I've also learned that Kenny Rogers was telling Lucille that they had four hungry children. No idea why I thought they had four hundred children.
     
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: mike89 on June 06/13/24, 12:55:39 PM
way back when we changed Lucille words to: don't leave me front wheel!!!  for our motorcycles...   :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Pulleye16 on June 06/13/24, 01:13:42 PM
lol. Just about every Pearl Jam and Nirvana song!
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Jrasmussen on June 06/13/24, 01:46:35 PM
Quote from: Pulleye16 on June 06/13/24, 01:13:42 PM
lol. Just about every Pearl Jam and Nirvana song!

Same!   And Mike we refer to it as don't leave me loose wheel. 
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Bonus on June 06/13/24, 01:48:44 PM
A girlfriend long ago though the AC-DC song was "Dirty Jeans and They're Dungarees.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Steve-o on June 06/13/24, 02:07:41 PM
Tom Petty played on Stevie Nicks' "Stop Dragging my Heart around."  Later Weird Al Yankovic did a parody:  "Stop Dragging my Car Around."  Watch the video and you can't unhear Weird Al's inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw)
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: LPS on June 06/13/24, 02:11:13 PM
Good one.  Lots of the wrong lyrics is songs.  Funny as heck.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: mike89 on June 06/13/24, 02:20:29 PM
Quote from: Jrasmussen on June 06/13/24, 01:46:35 PM
Quote from: Pulleye16 on June 06/13/24, 01:13:42 PM
lol. Just about every Pearl Jam and Nirvana song!

Same!   And Mike we refer to it as don't leave me loose wheel.

yes that one too!!!    :happy1: :happy1:
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: tangle tooth on June 06/13/24, 02:32:12 PM
      Weird Al has lots of good ones. I'm particularly fond of Amish Paradise.
      Kind of like old Cletus T. Judd. A country Weird Al. First Redneck on the Internet.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: tangle tooth on June 06/13/24, 02:34:48 PM
Quote from: Bonus on June 06/13/24, 01:48:44 PM
A girlfriend long ago though the AC-DC song was "Dirty Jeans and They're Dungarees.
Dirty Deeds, Done With Sheep. So I've been told.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Glenn_S on June 06/14/24, 05:38:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpq35wyDi7I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpq35wyDi7I)

Revved up like a douche?  NO!
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: LPS on June 06/15/24, 07:12:56 AM
Great tune but the douche thing baffled me too.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Steve-o on June 06/15/24, 09:35:55 AM
Springsteen's original lyric was "cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night."  Referring to a '32 Ford coupe; think Beach Boy's Little Deuce Coup.

The whole song is about getting hopped up on hard drugs, something Springsteen never did.
Title: Re: Wrong lyrics.
Post by: Jerkbiat on June 06/15/24, 11:33:06 AM
Quote from: LPS on June 06/15/24, 07:12:56 AM
Great tune but the douche thing baffled me too.
That's what I always thought too.