glassner@cwruecmp.UUCP (Andrew Glassner) (11/16/83)
How many times have you heard a song on the radio and
thought you understood the lyrics, only to later learn
that you had totally misunderstood the words?
Two instances that spring to memory:
I heard "She's seen better days gone by"
when they sang, "She's got Bette Davis eyes"
In the musical CATS there's a song called
Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cat, and at one
point I thought I heard the chorus call out,
"Do you like your morning tea with a straw?"
when they sang,
"Do you like your morning tea hot or cold?"
These aren't too funny, but they're just examples of
the form ... I'm sure that you folks can remember lots
of funny mistakes...
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-Andrew
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Cleveland, Oh 44106 russ@mit-vax.UUCP (11/18/83)
For a long time I was convinced that the chorus of Paul McCartney's second single (after he left That Other Band) was "Bang on the Drum." Eventually, of course, I looked at the album cover (after I got some strange looks from my friends; trouble is, I like to sing along with the radio). Russell "Nothing Witty to Say" Finn ..!mit-vax!russ
gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (11/28/83)
When I was very young (< 10) my sister and I both mistook the lyrics to
"Cabaret".
We turned "come to the Cabaret, oh chum!"
into "come to the cat, a real chum!"
(we owned a cat at the time)
--greg {decvax!genrad | eagle!mit-vax}mit-eddie!gds