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Twisted Lyrics :

This from the time when my daughter was barely three and both of us were listening to Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" on the home stereo in the living room. The reason for listening to this particular track was because I had it in the car and somehow I thought it always amused her. I got up and went to fetch something to drink and on my return as I entered the room with her back to me I overheard her singing along. I could not help laughing when I realised what she was singing, "and here's to you Mrs Rabbitson......"

I guess it was due to the fact that she always enjoyed watching Bugs Bunny and that could have influenced her to sing those twisted lyrics.

Do you have a story to share about twisted lyrics?
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danlib1
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Rsbeck: That's beautiful man. I think that's what Lennon really meant.
mezmo
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My favorite has got to be from the time I spent in Spain. At the time, the Rage Against the Machine song "Killing in the Name Of" was very popular and regularly played in the club scene. One of the refrains, over and over, is "and now you do what they told ya." All the Spaniards would scream along and, invariably, they were all screaming "que te chupa la polla." Over and over. (Honestly, it really does sound the same, especially in a loud club.) At the risk of spoiling the suspense for our non-Spanish-speaking friends, roughly, they were all screaming "suck a dick." Over and over....
bookert
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For me it was Richard and Linda Thompson singing Wall of Death. I thought they were singing "I want to ride on your waterbed one more time." Somehow, that seemed more poignant to me!
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nrchy
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I had my two sons in the back seat of the car and one of them piped up "Play every knuckle animal."
I was stunned, I had no idea what he was talking about, so I asked. It turns out he was talking about the Jim Steinman written, Air Supply recorded song "Making Love Out of Nothing At All."
We still laugh about that one.
On another trip my younger son asked, while we were driving through a nice neighborhood "Is itchy mansion around here?"
When we asked what he was talking about he explained "You know from the Gordon Lightfoot song, itchy mansion my name."
The song of course was, "Did She Mention My Name?"
Kids are great for this!!!
pbb
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From "Smack dab in the middle" done by Ray Charles and also by Ry Cooder, I always heard (and worst, repeated) "pick me a town in any clime" as "pick me a town in decline". Seeing as though the lyrics that follow are "people like a rocking time" it made good sense to me that when things are not going very well in town you might as well rock. With that logic, looking at the decline of numerous American cities over the last decades, there should be quite a few rocking towns stateside!
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