Sing-Along Wrong
I have always loved to sing. I even had the lead in my High School Musical and performed in some summer stock theater musical reviews in my younger days. However, I didn’t always get the lyrics right when it came to hearing songs and singing along.
Here are just a couple of the songs from my youth that I thought I knew but then later found out I was completely WRONG!!
Do you remember the song, Dirty D’s and the Thunder Chief? No? Well, when I was in high school, my best friend Kim and I used to sing it at the top of our lungs in the car! Okay, so we were a little off on the words. The real lyrics: “Dirty Deeds and They’re Done Dirt Cheap.”
Deck the halls with balls of Challey (That’s the way my father pronounced “Challah” – you know the braided bread.) It was actually a Christmas Carole many of you sang a million times, “Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly.”
However, as a first grader, this nice Jewish girl had no idea what a “bough of holly” had to do with anything. Okay, so I also had no idea why anyone would crumple up a piece of bread and throw it at the hall either, but somehow it made a nice jingle!
Well, I have shared some of my most embarrassing lyric faux pas with you. Now it’s your turn. Come on, I know you must sing-along-WRONG sometimes. ‘Fess up!
4 Comments
November 5, 2008
:O You butchered AC/DC :O lol
So now I don’t feel so bad about the worst of mine.
in Ironic by Alannis Morrisette:
I was so certain the line ‘death row pardon’ was actually ‘death throw hard-on’ … hmmm oooops ! LOL
Excuse me while I slink off now….
November 5, 2008
Hey in KIng of Pain by the Police – my little sister used to sing “I’m always leaking away” instead of I’m always the king of pain.” I used to howl laughing over that one!
November 5, 2008
oh and here in Australia the lines to Dirty Deeds are usually sung as
“Dirty Deeds done with sheep”
December 10, 2008
I am laughing so hard my kids had to come in to see what I am laughing at. I can’t even explain it to them. The minute I saw your topic, I thought the same thing.
Every time I hear that song I think of you
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