One more on rock music lyrics. “Mishearing” of lyrics is perhaps as old as rock music itself. With lyrics tightly enmeshed in layers of high-decibel electric music, chances of getting them messed up are quite high. And embarrassing, too, at times.
You might be ostracised at rock concerts if you sing She don’t mind, She don’t mind, She don’t mind, Cocaine. The Lynn Trusses of the rock world will cry sacrilege and dunk your head in a barrel full of Woodstock mud. JJ Cale, and later Eric Clapton, had sung this song as She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, Cocaine. Why, I don’t know. The former interpretation makes more sense.
Again, an American was humbled when he was told that the refrain in the Beatles song Across the Universe was Jai guru deva, and not John grew a K-mart. Poor John must have turned in his grave.
So, don’t fret if you regularly mishear lyrics. You are not the only one. This website shows us how most of us mishear lyrics. It also allows you to relate the embarrassing moments you have faced because of this peculiar affliction.
Go ahead and add to the website how the whole country misheard Aati kya khandala as Haathi ka andala. And how most of us would deliberately like to mishear/mis-sing the old favourite: Gori tera gaon bara pyaara.
PS: Dont miss the gem of an anecdote that explains the naming of the URL.
You might be ostracised at rock concerts if you sing She don’t mind, She don’t mind, She don’t mind, Cocaine. The Lynn Trusses of the rock world will cry sacrilege and dunk your head in a barrel full of Woodstock mud. JJ Cale, and later Eric Clapton, had sung this song as She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, Cocaine. Why, I don’t know. The former interpretation makes more sense.
Again, an American was humbled when he was told that the refrain in the Beatles song Across the Universe was Jai guru deva, and not John grew a K-mart. Poor John must have turned in his grave.
So, don’t fret if you regularly mishear lyrics. You are not the only one. This website shows us how most of us mishear lyrics. It also allows you to relate the embarrassing moments you have faced because of this peculiar affliction.
Go ahead and add to the website how the whole country misheard Aati kya khandala as Haathi ka andala. And how most of us would deliberately like to mishear/mis-sing the old favourite: Gori tera gaon bara pyaara.
PS: Dont miss the gem of an anecdote that explains the naming of the URL.
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brought to mind my favourite misheard lyrics. just goes to show how obsessive the human mind is..be it on a "gori's gaon" or on a number..69 anyone?
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"she don't mind, she don't mind" (when I was 15)
"she gets high, she gets high" (I was 17)
"she don't like, she don't like" (when I was 18)
"she don't try, she don't try" (when i was 20)
At 21, I discovered the Cale original :)) Still not too clear what the "message" of the song is. At this stage, I don't think I care. What I do like about it is that Cale stole the opening riff from Cream (Sunshine) and Clapton avenged it by making the song completely his own!
Great post!
When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques. One of my favorite poems began, as I remember:
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray, [sic]
And Lady Mondegreen.
The actual line is "And laid him on the green", from the anonymous 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray"."
A very famous mondegreen: "The ants are my friends, they are blowing in the wind." Obviously, someone wasn't paying attention to Bob Dylan's words, when he sang, "The answer my friend is blowing in the wind."
And thanks for the Lady, Tridib.
I'd grumble about Tom Joad finding his way EVERYwhere, only he's a Billy Joel type and that gets him immunity. (I had not told ye, fools, so much / save that I heard your singing man)
Don't ask me how bad I am. shy is coming :)
Km: Cream's Sunshine is great! And the three stages of Cocaine mishearing had me in splits! Some people like Dylan and Springsteen are bound to be mishreard because of their twang.
Ghostoftomjoad: Your dad was quite justified in his move! And 'Let it be' does sound like a gospel lullaby!
Tridib: Mondegreen? Stand enlightened. Think I will change the title of this post now! The Dylan mondegreen was hilarious!
M (tread softly upon): Kya hua haiwatha? Hahhah! This wins the Mother of Mondegreens award.
Arthur Quiller Couch: I would rather like Foulon de Ville! And, I reserve my opinions on Billy Joel.
Anindita: That’s the spirit. Keep on singing it that way, or any other way you like. But don’t do that to Robindroshongeet.
Portnoy: I like this new kid on the blog! Your Crash review was great. The Nazia Hasan mishearing was a national phenomenon.
Kaushik: There you go. There is very little left to be discovered in this world!
Kusum: Bird in the sky? LoL!
Theladylazarus: John grew a K-mart was so American. They are geniuses at dumbing down things!
J: Thanks for coming here after a long hiatus! Don’t get embarrassed. Sing them any way you like. And do tell me what all have you misheard. Will create an archive of Indian songs misheard and then post them!
Why? Because she thought the line that actually went mujhe dor koi kheenche, teri ore liye jaye was mujhe do koi cheezen, teri ore liye jaye.
This never fails to bring on a fit of giggles.
- pink floyd, learning to fly.
We await your return.
J.A.P.
Kusum: Here I am, maam. And thanks for remembering the Fool.
Tabula rasa: Welcome to the Machine, friend. Kantian name. Or is it Kantesque?
That was a great mondegreen: Misfit can always be misheard as biscuit! Har har!
Scout: Welcome aboard. Hendrix lyrics is always difficult to pick up. "Kiss this guy" indeed made for a great story.
J.A.P: Honoured by your request. Sabbatical? Maybe it was blogger overkill.
And Cocaine is one confusing song. Clapton's other one "I shot the Sheriff" made it to the hall of fame of songs with meaningless lyrics. "But I didn't shoot the deputy" was the second line. Nobody knows why he didn't shoot the deputy! Even he didn't, I guess.
a friend of mine used to sing 'common baby light my fire' and 'Harris, who the fuck is harris'..
btw..i shot the sheriff is originally a bob marley song. its about his life in a Kingston ghetto.
Eiffel 65, and their shit song called Blue, with the refrain going something like:
"I'm blue da ba dee da ba dieeee da ba dee da ba dieee..."
Misheard, whether intentionally or otherwise, as:
"I'm blue if I was green I would die if I was greeeen I would die..."
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