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.
 
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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