> > > > Heh...I think the site I've linked below (which has, for over a year, been on what seems to be a permanent hiatus) could perhaps inspire a new RinkWorks feature...or at least featurette.
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> > > > So, anyone wanna share some possibly embarrassing mishearings from their favorite songs in this thread?
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> > > Well I wouldn't say favorites, but here's some of my mishearings of songs:
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> > > The first time I heard it, I thought the line "There's a bad moon on the rise"(from "Bad Moon Rising") was "There's a bathroom on the right".
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> > > For a long time I thought the line "Waaarrruuuu werewolves of London" was "Waaarrruuuu where was the thunder". After I found out the truth all the descriptions of werewolves in the first verse made a lot more sense.
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> > > And last and definitely least, I thought "Dust in the wind" was "Ducks in the wind".
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> > > Mel
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> > A good friend of mine went for about nine years under the impression that the song "You're The One That I Want" (from "Grease") was "You're the Wizard of Oz." She found out it wasn't when she asked me why I thought they were singing that - she'd never been able to work out what it might mean. She was very, very embarrassed when I explained.
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> > Now, if that had been me, I would have admitted graciously that I was wrong, and then gone away and lived in a cave far away from society for the rest of my life.
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> > Brunnen-"I'm not going to tell you some of *my* mishearings"G
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> As a child, hearing the National Anthem at ball games, I never once questioned the phrase, (as I heard it) "the dawnserly light." It wasn't until later, when I happened to read the lyrics in a chorus book, that I realized "Ohh! Dawn's early!" I had just assumed it was some sort of adjective describing dawn-type light.
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> Gr"sounds better than dawnsish"ace

A couple few years ago, a fiend of mine had a book called "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, and Other Misheard Lyrics". It's a very funny book with illustrations for some of the more visually inclined mishearings. For some of them listed, I thought, "Now how could someone possibly think that?" For most, I thought "Yeah, I remember thinking that." For the rest, I thought, "Oh, so I've been wrong all these years."
I saw another edition in a bookstore a some time ago, and there could even be another by now.

My favorites in the book were:
(from Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water") - "Slow motion Walter, fire engine guy."
(from Tom Petty's "I Was Born A Rebel") - "I was Barney Rubble."

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