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On to lighter matters
- Subject: On to lighter matters
- From: Grant Burgess <grantburgess@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:29:54 -0500 (EST)
A couple more mistaken lyrics would be on the Japanese lyric translations
such as:
"got you in the sides, of my car"
"to be a rock, a natural"
And we must never forget:
"I ain't Joe King woman"
>
>Last night I was thumbing through some books about misheard lyrics; there's
>three (so far) in the series. The person who collected them all had people
>e-mail him or write with examples, and then put them in book form. A lot
>of them were hysterically funny, and with some, I thought maybe people
>hadn't really misheard them that way, but just wanted to get into the
>books. But who cares; they were funny anyway.
>
>Here are the Zep-related ones (I think you'll be able to tell what songs
>they came from and hopefully what the original lyrics were):
>
>First from the Yardbirds:
>
>"Foyer love"
>
>"They drank cappuccino all night long"
>
>And now the Zeppelin ones:
>
>"There's a feeling I get when I look at my waist"
>
>"If there's a busload in your headrow, don't be a lawman"
>
>"It's just the sprinkles for the bakery"
>
>"And there's a wino down the road/ I should've stolen Oreos"
>
>"Hey hey baby when you walk that way/ Got a hunting trip, can't keep away"
>
>"You need Kool-Aid, baby I'm not foolin' "
>
>"I got my flower, I got my power/ I got a Roman nose"
>
>"Olive my love, Olive my love"
>
>"With a purple operator and fifty cent hair"
>
>"Living, loving/ She's just a walrus"
>
>Koo-koo-ka-choob,
>Ana
>
>**********************************************
>"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant
> planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away
> in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there
> are far more galaxies than people."
>*********************************************
>
>
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"Even though I got a woman In Wisconsin,
I Can't help falling in love with you"
Robert Plant Milan 1993
"I can hear the man upstairs and
he's crying out:
Fall on your knees, the end
is near"
Amanda Marshall
"Last Exit to Eden"