Originally posted by jgvaccaroCreedence Clearwater Revival was a cornucopia of hard-to-understand lyrics. I can remember thinking they were singing, "Willie and the poor boys playing, being Negro can't be beat." I think it is actually "... pitching nickels in the street."
... the CCR classic "There's a bathroom on the right" ..."
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Originally posted by Natural ScienceI'm not alone here....listen to the song carefully and you'll see that when he sings the line, it does sound more like "....this guy" than "...the sky". Jimi was apparently aware of this, because he once kissed bassist Noel Redding on stage after singing the line.
I'll start with an old classic:
"S'cuse me while I kiss this guy....."
Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze
edit: Meant this as a reply to seraphimvulture.
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Originally posted by jgvaccaroActually, Dave Barry's book was about bad songs. It was inspired by a series of columns he wrote, and got immense feedback from. These columns can be found here:
Didn't Dave Barry write a whole book about this?
A couple I can think of are the CCR classic "There's a bathroom on the right" and the Cuban favorite "One Ton Tomato."
http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/dave/the_bad_song_contest_i.html
Incidentally, bad songs is a huge topic worthy of its own thread.
In Van Morrison's "Moondance", the lyrics go:
"And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush"
However, I can't hear anything other than:
"And all the night's magic seems to whisper Anne Heche"
See if you can ever hear the original lyrics once you catch this auditory hallucination.
-Ray.
Beatles, Lusy in the Sky with diamonds: I could have sworn they sung "the girl with cholytus goes by", not "the girl with calydoscope eyes".
I can't remember the song name but 50% of the lyrics were "sail away, sail away, sail away", which I initially misheard for "save a whale...".