Misheard Song Lyrics

I'm 7 years old in the backseat of the car, I sang as my mother drove. " Gonna get a jack-o-lantern, gonna get married." My mother said " John that is not what they are saying." At age 7 I was unaware that a carved pumpkin had nothing to do with a wedding ceremony. I don't know from whence the jack-o-lantern line stemmed ( I throw the puns in for the 3 or 4 folks who write to say that they enjoy my PUNS!). We can all agree that I butchered The Dixie Cups "Chapel of Love."

Years later I was discussing misheard song lyrics with a shop owner on my UPS route. He told me that he fell over laughing one day when he heard his wife singing " pay me, for what you're gonna do." Yes, she'd taken Pure Prairie League's Amie, a beautiful love song and transformed it into love for hire!

Probably the most misheard lyric in the history of rock is a line found within " Lookin' Out My Backdoor." I can home from UPS one night back in the 80s, before the glut of P Cs, to find my then wife holding the phone in her hand. A radio station was having a contest, a case of Pepsi was at stake! They wanted the line that followed " look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn." I sang off key " a dinosaur Victrola listening to Buck Owens." And we won!

Ahhh the memories...perhaps you can think of some misheard songs of your own?

Prisoner of Love

Late in the night
I am in bed
the thoughts of you
fill up my head
surrounded by darkness
ceiling fan turns
you're on my mind
for you I yearn
feeling at times
becomes so intense
bound by desire
behind love's fence
realize the limits
yet I persist
knowing it's you
I cannot resist
I'll never have you
thus my heart bleeds
you are my dream girl
the dream's all I need
you inspire feelings
that no one else does
I shall gladly remain
your prisoner of love......