Just how 'calling Jamaica' by REM isn't on the list I don't know!

And how is it possible to miss hear the lyric that's in the title?
I'm very bad at hearing lyrics but then I listen to the song as a whole. Many people focus in on the words but who cares if someone wants to sing an approximation of the lyrics. It's meant to be music, not poetry.

Of course some will beg to differ but you get out what you want from it. I don't even really listen to words of bob Dylan, I like the sounds of the syllables and patterns of the voice but I'm interested in the music and not the message.

Is it ELO.....don't bring me down 'Bruce' is actually 'Groooooose' if any body knows what the heck that means?

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Is it ELO.....don't bring me down 'Bruce' is actually 'Groooooose' if any body knows what the heck that means?

I always thought it was Bruce too! This is a common misreading apparently, and Jeff Lynne even acknowledged this in concert by singing "Bruce" instead just for fun. The "Grroosss" is just a nonsense made-up lyric.

Here's the wikipedia entry:

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!". According to the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback, he is saying a made up lyric, Grroosss," which some have suggested sounds like the Bavarian expression "Grüß Gott." After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.

On one of Fogerty's live albums he does sing bathroom on the right, I'm sure the whole band is laughing!
When Automatic For The People came out, I always thought they were singing Coming to Jamaica! Years later I see the actual lyrics, Call me when you try to wake her up!! Was I ever off on that.

I heard Stones songs first, then only later saw the lyrics. For instance, I never knew that Brown Sugar was a slave song about the American South, I thought it was just about some people down in New Orleans doing well and having fun:

Go-Go Sadie she found the cotton fields
sown in a market down in New Orleans
Scott O'Xavier know he's doin' alright
hear him in the wind a' just around midnight....

Dumb bleeding cold, English blood runs hot....

Hawthorne I know said he's doin' alright....

I bet your mother was a taste-sure queen
I know Scooby, know what I like....

There was a line in Honky Tonk Women that I always heard as:

A lady then for sale in New York City....

I always thought Miss You started off as:

I been haulin' ass so long....



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The opening lines of The Who song Long Live Rock never made a lick of sense to me.

Perceived lyrics: Doubt there'll be a story of the sea walls changing, Bingo and rock were pushing out and straighting

Actual lyrics: Down at the Astoria the scene was changing,
Bingo and rock were pushing out X-rating

JUST MY IMAGINATION

I look out my window watch her as she passes by
I say to myself I'm such a lucky guy

Back then, I misheard it as:-

I said to myself I'm searching a king I

Dido "White Flag"

For a long time I though she sang "I will go down with this sh*t"

The smell of that chick put my spine out of place.

I always thought it was, put a smile on my face.


Well... you also messed up the first few words... It's "the mellow-thighed" chick just put my spine out of place.

I've never been able to make out that line from The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight - even after I've read what the words really are, it still sounds like Common In Jamaica to me.

- and "never got a lift out of Egypt, when I can fly way back home".

Brown Sugar.

According to Keith, the phrase is "Skydog slaver" and not "Scarred old slaver" as is commonly beleived

Just about everything from Pearl Jam.....and I'm a big fan.

Hamish the tangerine man by Bob Dylan is a great track.

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Also, and this is not a song: "Four candles and fork handles" by the Two Ronnies.

Look it up on youtube, and you'll love it.

I'm sorry, I'm finding it hard to believe there's people out there who aren't aware of this sketch.

....is it playing that high class game or playing that half assed game, the lyric sheets say one thing, but....