When Hazel was a baby, I'd hold her and she would stare at the ceiling fan in her house while I sang her this song. When she was just a few months old, I showed her a picture of Jimi which amazingly fascinated her. She would stare and stare and begin wiggling her arms and legs. Hope he was smiling down at that sight!
When Margaret, her mother, was a little girl, she asked me once, in all seriousness, "Was Jimi Hendrix gay?" I asked her why she asked. "Because he says "scuse me while I kiss this guy." Years later I saw a book called 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: and Other Misheard Lyrics.
This is the first song I heard today on our local community radio station which is being run from the founder's home and via zoom these days, keeping us all connected and content in our musical lives.
Misheard lyrics are sooo funny! There is a German book about them, and I recognise some of the typical mishearings from my own childhood.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when my sister and I were little and before we spoke English, we sang our own made-up "English" to our favourite Abba songs, who were constantly on the radio at that time (we're talking mid-to-late 70s here). Only much later did I understand their lyrics!
I loved reading this. Abba!
DeleteHa, I can't tell you how many times over the years that I found out I was singing the wrong lyrics to a song.
ReplyDeleteThere are still some old songs that have lyrics I haven't gotten in all these years. Here is one. "I'm a walkin in the rain till the ??? and then I feel a pain"
DeleteHa, ha! People have been arguing about that line since the sixties!
ReplyDeleteI had never heard anyone say that until my daughter asked!
DeleteVery funny! I remember a friend who sang, "Oh a tree in motion" instead of "poetry in motion" sure it was right. And someone who sang "Christi the royal master leans against the phone" as a line in Onward Christian Soldiers. I think I know more of these sorts of mistakes but just can't remember them right now....
ReplyDeleteBut I do remember Jimi Hendrix who was one of my favorite singers (I had a lot of favorites) long long ago.
I love the stories! So funny. We saw Hendrix in either ''68 or '69. I remember perfectly the view we had of him from a balcony.
DeleteI watched a comedian on YouTube do an entire routine on misheard lyrics the other day (and, of course, I can't find it again or even recall the comedian's name right now) complete with audio samples to make his point. Even after he pointed out the misheard lyrics and played them a couple of times, I usually misheard them exactly the same way I had before. It was hilarious - and some of the misheard words were most definitely X-rated strung together the way they were.
ReplyDeleteVery, very funny!! I'll do some searching myself.
DeleteIs it this? https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8 It is so funny!
DeleteThat's the guy! I just found myself watching the whole routine again, it's so funny. I had forgotten how expressive his face is.
DeleteI will be watching more of his work!
DeleteBack when I was in high school (1960) there was a song called Hello walls. It continued hello windows, hello ceiling. One of my friends thought it was hello Wallace, Hello Wendell, Hello Steven. I remember to this day and group of 4 or 5 of my classmates sitting around a table having a coke, laughing about that.
ReplyDeleteAnother friend thought Penny Lane was Penny Rain. If you've not seen James Corden's carpool kareoke with Paul McCartney on You Tube, it's well worth a watch.
Very, very funny! Thank you for telling me. And yes, I've seen the carpool with "our Paulie"!
DeleteHazel has a cool Grandma ... that was a modern lullaby you sang for her. Just another way she (and the boys) are lucky!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I also used to sing her Pat Boone's April Love. It always, always soothed her to sleep. On the line "if she's the one" I added, "and she is".
DeleteAs a small child I'd happily sing "Land of Hope and Glory Mother of Dumfries" which I found slightly puzzling ...but I hate to confess how many years later it was before I realised it was "Mother of the Free" lol
ReplyDeleteVery funny!!
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