mondegreen revisited
David Bergdahl
einstein at FROGNET.NET
Mon Sep 4 15:37:31 UTC 2000
A MUSIC web site which has catalogued
misinterpreted lyrics for the
past six years has published an all-time top 10.
The designer, Jessica Ross, has archived some of
the funniest
blunders on her website - www.kissthisguy.com. -
named after an
often-changed Jimi Hendrix lyric, "Excuse Me
While I Kiss The Sky"
from Purple Haze.
Site users' admissions include Meatloaf singing
"Like a battery hen"
(Like a bat out of hell); the Eurythmics' "It's
all right, babies come in
bags" (Baby's coming back); Paul Young - "Every
time you go away,
you take a piece of meat (me) with you"; and
Elvis Presley - "You ate
(ain't) nothing but a hound dog".
The top 10 includes, in order: Oliver's Army by
Elvis Costello with lyrics
mistaken as "All of the zombies (instead of
"Oliver's Army") are on
their way"; Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by
Crystal Gayle with
the mistaken lyric "Donuts make my brown eyes
blue"; Africa, by Toto,
with "Nothing but a hundred men on Mars could
ever do" instead of "A
hundred men or more "; Best Shot by Pat Benatar
with "Hit me with
your pet shark"; How Deep Is Your Love? by the
Bee Gees with "You
come to me on a submarine" instead of "on a
summer breeze";
Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan with "The ants
are my friends,
they're blowing in the wind" instead of "The
answer my friend is blowin'
in the wind".
-- from the Electronic Telegraph 9/4/00
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