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MISHEARD ROCK LYRICS
- A look at some (but not all) of the many mistaken Rock lyrics -
| SONG & ARTIST | CORRECT LYRICS | MISHEARD LYRICS |
| All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix's version |
Plowmen dig my earth |
Poor man dig my herb |
| Almost Cut My Hair - CSNY | It's like looking into a mirror and seeing a police car | It's like looking into a mirror and seeing a Polish star |
| Apeman - The Kinks | I look out the window, but I can't see the sky, the air pollution is foggin' up my eyes |
I look out the window, but I can't see the sky, the air pollution is fucking up my eyes |
| Baby You're a Rich Man - The Beatles |
Baby you're a rich man, too |
Maybe you're a rich fag Jew |
| Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith | I'm back in the saddle again |
I'm back inside her again |
| Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Theres a bad moon on the rise |
There's a bathroom on the right |
| Badge - Cream | Then I told you 'bout our kid; now he's married to Mabel. | Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's not a tomato |
| Bang a Gong (Get it On) - T- Rex | Well you're an untamed youth, |
Well your 19, that's the truth with your coat full of egos |
| Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones | I'll never be your beast of burden |
I'll never leave your pizza burnin' |
| Before They Make Me Run - Rolling Stones | It's another goodbye to another good friend |
It's another good bust and another good frame |
| Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band version |
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night |
Wrapped up like a douche and then I roll her in the night |
| Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen | Spare him his life from this monstrosity | Spare him his life for this lone slice of cheese |
| Born To Run - Bruce Springsten | Baby this town rips the bones from your back | Baby this town rips the balls from your sack |
| Cocaine - Eric Clapton's version | She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine | She don't like, she don't like, she don't like, cocaine. |
| Come Dancing - The Kinks | My sister's married and she lives on an estate | My sister's married now, she lives out in the States |
| De Do Do, De Da Da - The Police | E-Oh, E-Oh, E-Oh, E-Oh - Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh! | Eat Yodles, eat Yodles, eat Yooooooooooooes! |
| Diamond Dogs - David Bowie | Mannequins with kill appeal | Americans with killer beer. |
| Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC | Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap | Dirty deeds and they're done with sheep |
| Do Wa Diddy - Manfred Mann | I'm hers. She's mine. Wedding bells are going to chime | I'm hurt. She's mad. Wedding bells are going to time |
| Don't Bring Me Down - ELO | Dont bring me down, grroosss! | Dont bring me down, Bruce! |
| Downtown Suzie - Rolling Stones | It's Lucy with the cleaning towel | It's Lucy with the clientele |
| Drift Away - Dobie Gray | Gimme the beat boys and free my soul | Gimme the Beach Boys.......Or Gimme the meatballs....... |
| Everyday People - Sly & the Family Stone |
I am everyday people | I'm tired of everyday people |
| Evil Woman - ELO | Evil woman | Medieval woman |
| Factory Girl - Rolling Stones | Waiting for a factory girl | Waiting for a fat furry girl |
| Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones |
Hey, you, get off of my cloud! | Hey, Hugh, get off of McCloud! - or - ...get off of my cow [or clown] |
| Give Me Life - George Harrison | Give me life | Give me lice |
| Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon | Give peace a chance | Give peas a chance |
| Groovin' - Rascals | Life would be ecstasy, you and me endlessly | Life woud be extra, see, you and me and LSD |
| Hang Fire - Rolling Stones | Hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire | Hang five, hang five, put it on the wire |
| Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells | My baby does the hanky panky | My baby does love ya baby |
| Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival | I wanna know have you ever seen the rain? | I wanna know have you ever seen Lorraine? |
| Heartbreaker - Rolling Stones | A ten year old girl on a street corner | Then your over on a street corner |
| Helen Wheels - Paul McCartney | Helen, Hell on wheels | Yellow, yellow wheels |
| Honky Cat - Elton John | Fishin' in a stream | Pissin' in a stream |
| Hotel California - Eagles | What a nice surprise, bring your alibis | What a nice surprise, when your rabbi dies |
| House of the Rising Sun - The Animals' version |
My mother was a tailor, she sewed my new bluejeans | My mother was a traitor, she sold my new bluejeans -or- she sold me new bluejeans |
| Can't Explain - The Who | A certain kind, can't explain | Been circumsized, can't explain |
| I'm Not In Love - 10CC | Be quiet. Be quiet. Big boys don't cry | Be quiet. Be quiet. Requesting quad |
| I'm So Tired - The Beatles | And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get | And curse the walls around me... |
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly |
In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey | In the Garden of Eden, honey -or- In a gutter in Sweden, honey -or- In the garden I peed in, honey |
| I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles |
I'll never dance with another | I'll never dance with her mother |
| I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones | I wanna be sedated | I wanna be castrated |
| I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles |
I can't hide, I can't hide! | I get high, I get high! |
| Laya - Derek & the Dominos |
What'll you do when you get lonely And nobody's waiting by your side? |
What'll you do when you get horny Company's waiting by your side? |
| Levon - Elton John | He shall be Levon | He shall be leaving |
| Light My Fire - The Doors | And our love become a funeral pyre | And our love become a funeral parlour -or- ..a funeral fire |
| Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull | God stole the handle..... | I thank God he stole the handle.... |
| Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival | Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band | Memories of elephants are playing in the band |
| Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles | A girl with kaleidoscope eyes | A girl with colitis goes by |
| Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf | Last night I held Alladin's lamp | Last night I had a leg of lamb |
| Michelle - The Beatles |
Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble. | Michelle my bell, some day monkey play piano song, play piano song. -or- Michelle, my bell, Sunday Monday Tuesday piano song, piano song. |
| Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones | So if you ever meet the midnight rambler, coming down your marble hall | So if you ever meet the midnight rambler, you better button down your mobile home |
| Money For Nothing - Dire Straits | Maybe get a blister on your thumb | Maybe get a pistol on your thumb |
| Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel |
Put them in the pantry with your cupcakes | Put them in your panties with your cupcakes |
| Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top | She wanna pearl necklace. | She wore a pearl necklace. |
| Penny Lane - The Beatles | Selling poppies on a tray | Selling puppies on a tray |
| Photograph - Def Leppard | You've gone straight to my head | Your gum sticks to my hair |
| Piggies - The Beatles | In their sty's with all their backing | English skys with all their backing |
| Pink Houses - John Mellencamp | There's a black man with a black cat livin' in a black neighborhood | There's a black man with black hair livin' in a black neighborhood |
| Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix | Scuse me, while I kiss the sky | Scuse me while I kiss this guy |
| Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze all around | Blue Haze all around |
| Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie | You tore your dress | Put on your dress |
| Redneck Friend - Jackson Browne | Honey you shake and Ill rattle and well roll on down the line | Honey you shake Colorado....... |
| Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd |
It's the Saturday night special | Mr. Saturday night special |
| Shattered - Rolling Stones | Pile it up, pile it high on the platter | Party up, party high on the blacktop |
| Short And Curlies - Rolling Stones | She's got you by the balls | She's got you by the bones |
| Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple | To make records with the mobile | To make records with the mogul |
| Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War | Spill the wine, take that pearl | Spill the wine, take that girl. -or - Spill the wine, and dig that girl |
| Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles | Cranberry sauce | I bury Paul |
| Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin | And as we wind on down the road | There's a wino down the road |
| Suffragette City - David Bowie | Oh don't lean on me man cause you can't afford the ticket, I'm back on suffragette city | Oh dont lean on me man cause you cant afford the ticket back from Suffragette City |
| Suffragette City - David Bowie | This mellow-thighed chick just put my spine out of place. | The smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face |
| Taking Care of Business - BTO | You get up every morning from the alarm clock's warning | You get up every morning from the long heart's warming |
| Teach Your Children - CSNY | The one they picks, the one you'll know by | The one they bitched..... |
| Tiny Dancer - Elton John | Hold me closer, tiny dancer. Count the headlights on the highway | Hold me close I'm trying to dance, ah! Count the headlice on the highway |
| The Wall - Pink Floyd | No dark sarcasm in the classroom | No Dukes of Hazard in the classroom |
| Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones | But baby, baby, I don't need no jewels in my crown. | .....I don't need you choosing my crowd -or- .....I don't need no Jews in my crowd |
| Waiting For the Man - David Bowie's version |
PR shoes, and a big straw hat | Dig those shoes and his straw bale hat |
| Won't Be Fooled Again - The Who | We were liberated from the fold, that's all! | We were liberated from the forward song! |
| Won't Be Fooled Again - The Who | Though I know that the hypnotized never lie | For I know that those Yippie guys never lie |
| You May Be Right - Billy Joel | You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic you're lookin for | You made the rice, I made the gravy, but it just may be the tuna fish you're lookin for |
- Songs with lyrics that make no sense (or do they?) -
Most of the time, many songs out there that confuse so many, actually do make sense, you just got to know what the song's writer was up to with the lyrics. But not all of these type of songs have been explained. The following tunes, along with the confusing - or plain out silly lyrics, are listed below, and none of them have ever really been explained. I'll add, most (but not all) of these songs are excellent numbers otherwise.
Sam Stone - John Prine: "Little pictures have big ears"....... They do? What da......?
Teach Your Children - CSNY: "The one they picks"...... What? Children don't pick their parents, nor do parents pick their kids (not blood parents, not yet, anyway), so what the heck does that mean?
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones: "I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread"....... The question remains - why would such a upbeat cat like Jack do this; why would anybody frown at bread?
Macarthur Park - Richard Harris: "All the sweet, green icing flowing down, somebody left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and Ill never have that recipe again!".......... You think Richard Harris was having a nervous breakdown the way he sang this part of the song, he must have really been hungry - perhaps from smoking too much weed, when he sang this line.
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles: "So I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian Wood"....... Some say "norwegian wood" was Beatle slang for marijuana, and if so, then perhaps the lyric makes sense. But many others claim the lyric here means that he was burning down the bird's house - and that makes no sense at all, as it doesn't fit with the rest of the song's lyrics.
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra: "Dont bring me down, grroosss!"......
What the hell does "grroosss" mean? (and no, they are not singing
"Bruce" there either, not that Bruce would make any sense).
Still You Turn Me On - Emerson
Lake and Palmer: "Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone
fetch me a ladder"....... He needs a ladder? The song is about a girl that turns
on a guy. So where does the ladder come in?
Roundabout - Yes: "Mountains
come out of the sky - and they stand there"....... They came from where and they
do what? I guess these mountians must have legs to just stand there and they must also
have wings too if they came from the sky.
Walking on the Moon - The Police: "My feet don't hardly make no sound walking on
the moon. I hope my legs don't break walking on the moon"...... Really?
Shit, any 8 year old could have come up with these lyrics! Come to think of it, there are
several songs by this band that the lyrics sound so childish.
- Songs with lyrics that have double meanings -
(List coming soon!)
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