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    Posted: September 09 2004 at 14:33

Came across a good site while browsing:

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/marillion.shtml

There's loads of bands, but here's those Marillion ones:

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Marillion's, "Afraid Of Sunlight"

Misheard Lyrics: All your beers and tired excuses.

Correct Lyrics: All your Byzantine excuses.

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Marillion's, "An Accidental Man"

Misheard Lyrics: I was born to wear the corsets.

Correct Lyrics: I was born to worthy causes.

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Marillion's, "An Accidental Man"

Misheard Lyrics: You ask me if I'm happy I only wish I knew

'Cause a Penis is not something That I ever learned to do'

Correct Lyrics: You ask me if I'm happy  I only wish I knew 'Cause happiness is not something  That I ever learned to do'

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Marillion's, "Assassin" (Sic)

Misheard Lyrics: I am the assassin, my toe fungus is immense.

Correct Lyrics: I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence.

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Marillion's, "Cover My Eyes"

Misheard Lyrics: Like the girl and the chicken at the end of the bar

Correct Lyrics: Like the girl overtaking in the open car

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Marillion's, "Cover My Eyes"

Misheard Lyrics: Like the girl you're protecting in the open car.

Correct Lyrics: Like the girl overtaking in the open car.

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Marillion's, "Kayleigh"

Misheard Lyrics: Kayleigh, is it too late to see your sunny?

Correct Lyrics: Kayleigh, is it too late to say I'm sorry?

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Marillion's, "The Uninvited Guest"

Misheard Lyrics: I'm the battle with your bad grip

Correct Lyrics: I'm the Banquo at your banquet

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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2004 at 14:39
I don't have any at the moment but I wanted to direct you to a book that you might find amusing. There is a book out(for quite some time actually) called "Scuze Me While I Kiss this Guy " and it has a picture of Jimmy Hendricks puckering up to this rather frightened looking indivisual. It is basicly a book of misheard lyrics and is hilarious. You can find it at any bookstore in the Humour section
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2004 at 15:18
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Came across a good site while browsing:

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/marillion.shtml

 

The site seems a bit contrived to me.



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Points: 29298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2004 at 05:47

Mine is Toto's 'Africa':

I heard as ''nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever do''

is actually ''nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do''

 
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2004 at 05:55
Mine (and the favorite of my family) is It Bites' She gave me a kiss like Judas, which we (used) to vigorously sing along to with, She gave me a fish like tuna - which reminds me of the Man LP cover using a frontispiece of  the Mad cartoon magazine : You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish - but Alfred E Newman in the picture begs to differ.
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2004 at 06:06
I'm reminded, with Warner Jazz reissuing compilations  of music from their archives, and  the latest, Strange Brew, contains a couple by the grand diva of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald. She covers I Heard It Through The Grapevine - and sounds like her music! That track came off a late 60's album, when the record company were trying to revitalise Fitzgerald's career by having  her cover recent hits. I bought her single at the time, singing Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love (it works after a fashion) - however, she singing the errors in the lyrics printed in the published sheet music. Instead of I'll be with you until the seas run dry, she sings I'll be with you until my seeds run dry -- which gives a peculiar gynacological spin to the tune from a grand of lady music, approaching 70 at the time.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2004 at 06:54

The older generation can be a wonderful source for mis-heard lyrics; I was visiting a girlfriend's grandmother, back in 1996, when the new single by the Verve came on the radio. The old lady liked to sing along, and she'd heard the song a couple of times and liked the tune, so warbled "...and the trucks don't work...". We didn't have the heart to correct her to "drugs..."
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Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

I don't have any at the moment but I wanted to direct you to a book that you might find amusing. There is a book out(for quite some time actually) called "Scuze Me While I Kiss this Guy " and it has a picture of Jimmy Hendricks puckering up to this rather frightened looking indivisual. It is basicly a book of misheard lyrics and is hilarious. You can find it at any bookstore in the Humour section

Yeah I've heard about that book! I really does sound so much like he's singing that too. Jimmy kissing a guy... 

I'll difinitely try finding that book next time I'm at a bookstore
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Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2004 at 11:02

My wife used to think Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Pride and Joy" contained the line "She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little leatherboy".  Why do you think I married her?

 
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