I know this has been done on another site. I don't know if it has been done here.

I'm sure Bruce Springsteen was not happy when Manfred Mann did not know difference between deuce and douche.

When I was a teenager a friend's mother thought that "She's A Must to Avoid" was "She's a Muscular Boy".

Mine had to do with the song "Don't You Want Me, Baby".
She says "Even then I thought I'd find a much better life, either with or without you."

I thought she said "even with a wimp like you."

Nice thread, Esme.

I actually learn the lyrics to the songs I like, then I proceed to rewrite them to something I (and my chums) consider funny. Usually, it's with a slightly raunchy twist.

I can't help it, especially if it's a song that gets overplayed on the radio, the twisted lyrics just tend to flow. Once I have done it, I can never listen to that song again without cracking up. Makes me look even more insane, since I'm the only one laughing at the song.

Some of my victims include:

The Cars
Oingo Boingo
Rolling Stones
Bruce Springsteen
Nirvana
Stone Temple Pilots
Anything with Eddie Vedder in it. (For some reason, he's one of my faves)
The Pretenders
The list is quite extensive, particularly one-hit-wonders.

If I could write you a song to make you fall in love I would already have you up under my arm. *at least that's how I heard it

Stan I have to admit to doing something similar myself. Usually the songs are old standards and are about people that I know.

Examples: Colleen the Queen of Mean, about a supervisor, to the tune of "I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean"

Never Knew anybody so Bizarre, about an almost lover to the tune of When Johnny Come Marching Home.

Vinnious Oblivious, about a neighbor, to the tune of Jennifer Juniper

Horny Billy, about my friend's son, to the tune of Billy Boy.

I'm an incorrigible lyric twister!

One of my faves is Head East's song: "Never Been Any Reason". When it gets to the part where they start singing "Save my life, I'm going down for the last time"...I really *must* change it to: "Shave my wife..."

There was a song we used to sing as kids that went like '...within me, when I am small...'

and my cousin would sing it '...wolf in me, when i am small..'

It was so cute lol

Back in my old high school daze, my bff & I twisted the famous Turtles song: "Me & you...& you & me...no matter how we toss the s#!t...it had to be..."

i can't find...
no more augie dog-ness.

~elton john (bernie taupin) 'don't let the sun go down on me'.

Good tune

true dat.
and, these two did a surprisingly good job in using the correct lyrics.

I figured you'd lament & say "Don't let your son..."

I used to think Wham were singing all that P****ng in the sea instead of all that's missing is the sea on Club Tropicana

There's a Bathroom On the Right (There's a Bad Moon on the Rise)

CCR - Bad Moon Rising

JINGLE BELLS - I always sings the words wrong.

Amburegul emeseyu bahrelway bahrelway
i dunno what song is it ? but it most popular in my country

Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple is suppose to say....


"Smoke on the water, and fire in the sky"


We sang, "Slow motion Walter, that fire engine guy"

Elton John's "Hold Me Closer Tony Danza"

Juke box hero.
One day my nephew was singing it, but it was'juice box hero'.
I started laughing, told him it was 'juke box'.
He tried them both, stuck with juice box. Said he liked that better.

I never could understand why Billy Ocean would sing about a hot chick who was a Caribou Queen... but I walked around singing it to myself anyway!

Nice topic by the way.

The artistes usually do compose lyrics ( or sing it ) in a way that the ear is actually able to hear different variations of meanings within each song. It's basically an art form.

Like for instance, "Where it's at?" you can hear "Wear his hat?"

Another example is my username: Nuclear_Wolf, reverse the name: "For real, see you when?" or "..see you win!"