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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

JAZ writes, "A good college friend of mine always thought (even in college) that the refrain in the song, Bad Moon Rising was, "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise." She said she learned the song from her hippie father when she was young and never bothered to check in with her adult self about the lyrics. I caught her singing it this way once in a Minnesota Pizza Hut after a midnight binge in college...hilarious. I think half of us wet our pants and had to run to the bathroom on the right."

I'm sure there are tons of cases of people hearing lyrics incorrectly. (You can share your story in comments if you are so inclined!) I wish there was a standardized lyrics look up as comprehensive as all the rest of the music info you can get on Allmusic.com.

1 Comments:

At 8:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks to SR, I know these are called mondegreens. http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/wryric.html
http://www.kissthisguy.com/

- EK

 

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