Say Say Say
Through the years/I can’t just stand in here/my taste in furniture/you know I’m crying ooh ooh ooh
Compared to Paul’s enunciation and proper use of English, Michael sounds like a babbling street lunatic.
Beat It
Show them how fucking strong is your fight/it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong or right
Before Michael went completely insane this seemed much for a PG pop idol.
Bennie and the Jets
She’s got electric boobs/her mom has two/you know I read it in a magazine
Almost everybody I’ve spoken with on this subject heard the same thing.
Tiny Dancer
Hold me close atomic dancer/count the head lice on the hiway/lay me down and sheep some lemon
Some of Taupin’s lyrics can be a little obtuse and John rarely enunciates clearly.
I always thought it was Orion.
ReplyDeleteThis one's too dated to be plausible any more, but I always get a giggle out of,
"Hold me closer Tony Danza."
It wasn't until I heard a cover that I clearly heard "looking for the answer in her eyes".
ReplyDeleteI think dying/Orion is a better rhyme.
If you promise not to google this, I give you the right to impress me. Name the song, the writer and singer of the following:
ReplyDeleteAll the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
Easy. It's Release Me by Eddie Miller, sung by Engelbert Humperdinck.
ReplyDeleteThey call me mellow yellow
ReplyDeleteWhy try tea
I got two chicks and a pair of dice
I'm goin back one day
Come what may
To babalu
Play piano well doesn't sound anything like tres bien ensemble.
ReplyDeleteI heard electric boobs too.
I can see Linda Ronstadt covering a Ricky Ricardo song.
ReplyDeleteFYI: It's called Mondegreen
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen