Classic Misheard Lyrics - The Collection! (Part 3 of 4)

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #51
"Baby Hold On"--EDDIE MONEY (1978) "Rich man, poor man--really don't mean all that much." Sounded to me like Ed sang "Pinch me, pull me..." The Money Man will never be known as the "Great Enunciator"...

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #52
“Down On Me”--JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO. (1967) “I said it looks like everybody in this whole round world, they’re down on me.” Has anyone else besides me thought Janis was singing, “There’s lipstick on my body” instead of "It looks like everybody" there?

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #53
"It Wasn't Me"--GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS (1978) "Well he was cold, tired and hungry, came a-beggin' for bread/The lady took him in and fed him breakfast in bed." When Lonesome George sang Chuck Berry's underrated classic, I thought he said, "The lady cooked him meat and fed him breakfast in bed," which also worked.

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #54
"Bounty Hunter"--MOLLY HATCHET (1978) "My six-gun, she's strapped by my side..." Me not being that well-versed on guns and ammo (then or now), I thought maybe there was some sort of weapons apparatus nicknamed a "six-gun cheese-strap"! Only my feeble brain would come up with stupid shit like that...

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #55
"No One Like You"--SCORPIONS (1982) "There are really no words strong enough to describe my longing for love." Minor discrepency here, but I always thought our thick-accented friend Klaus Meine was singing "There are really no words coming out..."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #56
"Car Wash"--ROSE ROYCE (1977) "There ain't no tellin' who you might meet--A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief..." Instead of Indian chief, I always thought she sang, "...or maybe even an idiot, too."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #57
"Jet Airliner"--STEVE MILLER BAND (1977) "Why deny I got tears in my eyes..." I first thought Steve sang "Friday night--I got tears in my eyes..." which didn't make a whole lotta sense...

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #58
"Sweet Home Alabama"--LYNYRD SKYNYRD (1974) "Yeah, Yeah--Montgomery's got all the answers..." Near the end of the song, Ronnie Van Zant utters this line, which I never understood until I looked it up on the 'Net. I always thought he said something unintelligible, followed by "Goddamn!"

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #59
"Gemini Dream"--THE MOODY BLUES (1981) "Make it work out (make it work)/Make it work out, for each other tonight..." I first mistook the "for each other tonight" line for "you're in trouble tonight..."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #60
"Border Song"--ELTON JOHN (1970) "...please excuse my frankness, but it's not my cup of tea." A little obscure here, but I thought EJ sang "please excuse my fracas."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #61
“She Bop”--CYNDI LAUPER (1984) “I hope he will understand…” Minor whiff on my part here--I thought she sang “I don’t even understand.” Still and all, this is the third-greatest song ever about masturbation, right behind Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” and The Who’s “Pictures of Lily”.

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #62
"School's Out"--ALICE COOPER (1972) "School's been blown to pieces" Not me this time, but rather the band Krokus in their totally unnecessary 1986 cover version of Big Al's classic when they sang "School is closed for recess."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #63
"Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"--ELTON JOHN (1973) "My old man's a drunkard and a barrel full of monkeys and my old lady, she don't care..." Or try it my old way as a 9-year-old with "My old man's a druggist..."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #64
"The Immigrant Song"--LED ZEPPELIN (1970) "Hammer of the gods..." I originally mistook this phrase for "camera of the gods". Then again, I can't understand half the stuff Robert Plant sings anyway. Come to think of it, can any of you?

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #65
"God"--JOHN LENNON (1970) "I don't believe in Zimmerman..." When I first heard this song in its entirety, it wasn't long after Lennon's demise in 1980, and I had yet to make the Dylan-Zimmerman connection, therefore I thought JL was singing "I don't believe in cinnamon..." By extension, I also mistook "Buddha" for "butter", the way John sang it. Please forgive me--I was a child of the '70s, not the '60s!

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #66
“In My Time Of Dying”--LED ZEPPELIN (1975) I was confused by the part at the end where Robert Plant repeats the phrase “Oh, my Jesus” several times. I thought he was singing “On my T.V.”!

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #67
"Stranger”--JEFFERSON STARSHIP (1981) “What is veiled now soon will be shown.” This line had me bamboozled for years until I finally looked it up. I thought it was something like “What is there? My suit will be shown...”

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #68
"China Grove"--THE DOOBIE BROTHERS (1973) This song seems to have bamboozled everyone for decades. I've seen two different interpretations here: "When the gossip gets to flying, they a-lign when the sun goes fallin' down..." and "When the gossip gets to flying, they ain't lying..." Anybody know which one's correct?

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #69
“Whisky Man”--MOLLY HATCHET (1979) "Ohh, straight at cha, babe!" I always mistook the late Danny Joe Brown's opening line to mean "Stretch your belt!" Well, come on, this was a song about drinking heavily, and when you do so, sometimes it's necessary to loosen the old belt a little...

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #70
“I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”—ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY (1977) “There’s a warm wind blowing, the stars are out…” I often mistook this line for “There’s a warm wind blowing the stars around.” Damn--it'd take one helluva typhoon up by Alpha Centauri to cause that!

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #71
"The Spirit Of Radio"—Rush (1979) "Bright antennae bristle with the energy…" I was a little slow on the uptake here--I first thought Geddy Lee sang, "Bright and tender, bristle with the energy." Duh, it’s a song about radio, dummy!

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #72
"Color In Your Life"--MISSING PERSONS (1986) "Cause you make love electrical--welcome to the festival..." Even though this was the last gasp from this band, I thought it was a very cool song. Still, I was a tad confused about the lyric during its chorus, because it sounded like Dale Bozzio sang, "Welcome to the vegetable". I love that line "You make love electrical," and I'd love to have a woman of the female persuasion sing it to me sometime...

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #73
"N.I.B."--BLACK SABBATH (1970) "The sun, the moon, the stars--all bear my seal." Or as I thought Ozzy sang it, "The sun, the moon, the stars--all that I steal..."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #74
"Roadhouse Blues"--THE DOORS (1970) "Back at the roadhouse, they got some bungalows..." Or as I once interpreted Big Jim's words, "Back at the roadhouse, they got someone who knows..."

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #75
"That's The Way I Wanna Rock 'N' Roll"--AC/DC (1991) "Turn off my brain control..." Or as dopey me heard it, "Turn off my breaking toe..."