In the Beatles song "I'm Down" the words sounded like, "Brim bram brum bittle ohm brittle aye. Same old thing happens every day. I'm down." When actually the words were, "Man buys ring, woman throws it away. Same old thing etc." How dumb is that?
Blinded by the Light Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer With a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps As the adolescent pumps His way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder Feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasin' Sneezin' and wheezin The calliope crashed to the ground The calliope crashed to the ground Well she was Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by…
Aye, indeed but no matter if it has a rhythm, beat or melody universally understood to be good.
This post was edited by O-uknow at April 23, 2018 7:23 PM MDT
Donna Summer's 1979 hit Hot Stuff. In the second verse, I always heard, "Wanna share my love with a woman lover; wanna bring a woman back home." I found out recently that she is actually singing, "Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover; wanna bring a wild man back home."
That's called a mondegreen. The name comes from a Scottish song "Bonnie Earl o' Moray". Listen to the first line "They have slain (mumble) and laid him on the green" and see if it doesn't sound like "lady mondegreen". You might spend a lot of time wondering who Lady Mondegreen was.
Not so. Everybody knows and loves "there's a bathroom on the right." And "scuse me while I kiss this guy" was so popular that Jimi Hendrix changed the song.
How many reindeer did Santa have? Ten: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, and Olive the other reindeer.
Supposedly, "Donder" became "Donner," but I just saw on the internet that someone says it was "Dunder,"
Never heard of "Dunder" before.
And "Olive" was a dog who though he was a reindeer, no?---and quite a late arrival on the scene.
This post was edited by tom jackson at April 12, 2018 3:24 PM MDT
It was originally Donner. Some people were more familiar with German donder, suggested by German Blitzen, "thunder and lightning". I never heard about Dunder.
Eithne Ní Bhraonaín only sings in one contemporary invented language, Loxian - because she tried Latin, English, Irish Gaelic and even Japanese for one particular song but "couldn't get it to sound right". Its inventor, Roma Ryan, isn't exactly part of her "team" either, she's a poet/linguist and was a friend before they became business partners. Ryan was never in Enya's employ. She does sing in multiple languages - those five plus Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Spanish, French and Sindarin Elvish, invented by JRR Tolkien before Enya was born so he's not part of her team either.
I'm taking your question in a slightly different way -- I "hear" the words to this song correctly, I just don't understand the overall meaning to the song and its lyrics. It remains a huge favorite of mine.
I even asked a friend of mine who teaches high school English about the lyrics and she shared the song and lyrics with the classes and asked for the students' interpretations -- the answers were fascinating to me.
I tried to find a video with the entire song and the lyrics printed but this is the only full version of the song I found -- it's a 4:50 minutes-long song and all the others were at least under four minutes. why people are "edit-ting" the he** out of this song, I don't know.
"Twist in my Sobriety" Tanita Tikaram
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 23, 2018 5:20 PM MDT
Imagine my horror when I heard my daughter, then eleven, blithely carolling along with Robbie Williams: "I've got the d**k, gonna stick in in the girl" (I've got the gift, gonna stick it in the goal)
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at April 23, 2018 8:16 PM MDT
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