Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Guest]

I was introducing the kids to Jimi Hendrix this morninmg via Purple Haze..

 

anyway - I decided to point out the famous mishearing of the lyrics..

 

"Scuse me while I kiss the sky"

misheard as..

"Scuse me while I kiss this guy"

 

anyway - got me thinking - are there any pop lyrics that you have embarassingly misheard and sung to your friends as if they were the real thing??

 

I'll start...

 

The Walrus - great song by the beatles...(perhaps the greatest Beatles song!) I wasn't the only one to hear this:

 

grab a block of fish my pornographic princess

 

when it should have been this:

 

crab-a-locker fishwife/pornographic priestess

 

was I??

 

Phil

[Mrs Frugal]

Ollie did a classic a few years ago..

 

"I have to praise you like a shoe"

 

What he should have been singing was

 

"I have to praise you like I should" from Fatboy Slim's Praise You !

 

I've done loads of these myself but not as funny as that. I used to think that we sang "I am the Lord of the dance settee" when I was at school though .

[feemcg]

Mmmmm....Reverand blue jeans! (Forever in blue jeans)

[Guest]

Ollie did a classic a few years ago..

 

"I have to praise you like a shoe"

 

 

that's a great one!!!

 

Phil

[The Dogmother]

'I sellotape my glove to you'

 

Should've been 'I celebrate my love for you', but once I'd got the wrong version in my head, I was doomed!

[Guest]

 

Just remembered another, Louis Armstrong - beautiful world. Something about dogs saying goodnight?

 

I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

 

Good one Dan!

 

anyone old enough to remember...

 

"woahhhhh, woahhhhh, my ears are alight" ??

 

Phil

[Guest]

'I sellotape my glove to you'

 

 

now that's way better than the original!

 

Phil

[The Dogmother]

Yeah, but who sung it? I can't remember

[feemcg]

Its funny you can't think of them all at once - they just keep coming back to you! - Anna used to sing "Bear and sausages" instead of Bare necessities.

[Guest]

desmond dekker??

 

Phil

[feemcg]

Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack?

[The Dogmother]

Who he?

 

wasn't that line followed by something like 'and the midnight sun's gonna come shining through'?

 

I'm sitting here trying hard to remember - I'll have to ask The Boy - he's great at 'name that tune' and pub quiz things

[feemcg]

Desmond Decker sang The Israelites

[Guest]

OK - some crossed lines here!!!!

 

sellotape my glove to you - Fee is right - Roberta Flack and Peabo (Roberta Flack most famous for "Killing me Softly") is she still alive??

 

next line (in last verse)

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you (ooh)

And that midnight song is gonna come shining through

 

Desmond Deckker - My ears are alight....

 

this is fun!

 

Phil

[Mrs Frugal]

desmond dekker??

 

Phil

 

There was that wonderful advert a few years ago where a guy was holding up cards with the lyrics he thought he was hearing on for The Israelites...

 

 

Ooooh me ears are alight

 

Watch the advert here - so funny!

[Guest]

I remember it well!

 

Phil

[feemcg]

Yay! - 2 right, ask me another!

[Guest]

OK fee...

 

decipher this one..

 

Miniature golf and hotdogs in the heat

Then me 'n' Ron Jaworski got some thrills.

 

 

Phil

[Guest]

or this one...., (they're all coming back to me now..)

 

"She's got electric boobs, her ma has too."

 

 

Phil

[Louise]

Elton John Benny and the Jets too easy Phil

[The Dogmother]

Found the lyrics I was looking for

 

TONIGHT I CELEBRATE MY LOVE (Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack)

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you

It seems the natural thing to do

Tonight no one's gonna find us

We'll leave the world behind us

When I make love to you

Tonight I celebrate my love for you

And hope that deep inside you feel it too

Tonight our spirits will be climbing

To the sky lit up with diamonds

When I make love to you tonight

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you (ooh)

And that midnight song is gonna come shining through

Tonight there'll be no distance between us

What I want most to do

Is to get close to you tonight

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you

And soon this old world will seem brand new

Tonight we will both discover

How friends turn into lovers

When I make love to you

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you (ooh)

And that midnight song is gonna come shining through

Tonight there'll be no distance between us

What I want most to do

Is to get close to you

 

Tonight I celebrate my love for you

 

Can't get the blasted song out of my head now *scowls*

[Egluntyne]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds -

 

for " the girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

 

I heard

 

"the girl with colitis goes by"

 

and of coures for oldies like me there is the classic

 

"the hands that judicious"

 

instead of

 

"the hands that do dishes"

 

in the Fairy Liquid advert.

 

Very non PC by today's standards as it hints that women do the washing up.

[feemcg]

Beach Boys....all Summer Long!

[Richard T]

Kate's link to the ad doesn't work on my office PC so forgive me if this is on there, but on "The Israelites" Desmond Decker also sang,

 

"Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast."

 

("Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir")

 

As for "To Celebrate My Love", to get the full points, under the Sir Jimmy Saville scoring system, you need to have said that it was by Peabo Bryson (feat. Roberta Flack).

 

Roberta Flack is still alive and is 69 years old. Did you realise that The Fugees covered "Killing Me Softly ..." in 1996!?

 

 

Richard T

[Guest]

Elton John Benny and the Jets too easy Phil

 

spot on Louise - all m ine come from a byegone era!

 

She's got electric boobs, her ma has too.

 

or (as Elton intended it)

 

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit.

 

 

 

ahh - and Fee's got the other one... Beach boys...

 

Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills

When we rode the horse, we got some thrills.

 

let me go and ask the missus if she remembers any... she's better at this stuff than me...

 

Phil