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Does anyone remember the reggae song "The Israelites" by Desmond Decker. It was played on Radio Wales this afternoon and I remember in the mid-1970's a DJ guessing what the words of pop records were.

This one was guessed as:

"Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
So that every mouth can be fed
Oh dear, my ears are alight"

What he actually sang was:
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me,the Israelites, sir

Think it was a young Noel Edmunds. Can anyone remember any other lyrics from that time? Or songs with misheard lyrics from any time?

'I believe in Milko' - by the band Erroll Brown was in.
(I believe in Miracles)
Quick Google - Hot Chocolate :-D

I'll feed the zane.


Auf weidersehen..........

Maggie :-D :-D Yes, I remember that was one at same time, I think. Was it Noel Edmonds?

Bob :-D :-D Vera Lynn 1952? I thought you were a young boy :-D

Nope earlier zan zat!!

Marlene Dietrich! I'm sure that she sang that.......although Vera did it also...

coupled wiz ...
Underneath zer lamp light, by zer barrack gate
Darlink I remember zer vay you yoosed to Vait!!

I like the misheard version of the Elton John song 'Don't let your son go down on me'.
And Bon Jovi and 'Bad medicine'. It goes:
"Thoreau is like Ralph Emerson,
Ralph Emerson is what I read"
Lastly, "Brown apes on mattresses tied up with string... these are a few of my favorite things." (Sound of Music)
:-D

Bohemian Raphsody -
Beelzebub has a devil of a sideboard for me, for me, for me.

Lol@ Maggie

Must go and have my milko and get wet :-( :-( :-(

Vera Lynn... Bob! :-0

Didn't she sing the "Eskimo" Song...
"Whale meat again"dont know where ,dont know when.

I used to like the "Big Horse" song by Mario Lanza.

"Big Horse, you`re mine, the brightest star I see,
looks down on me Big Horse you`re mine.....

:-D :-DE

LOL years ago, I knew an old(to me) dear that claimed she was Vera Lynns' Aunt and insisted we play Veras' stuff so she could get up and sing........

"Money for nothing and your chips for free"

Original version as sung by my 4 year old daughter.

Her brother who was only 5 couldn't stop laughing but wouldn't tell her why :-D

"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille,
Four hundred children, and a croc in the field"

The Israelites

One line is

The wife and the kids they pack up and they leave me

We heard it as

The wife and the kids the **** of and the leave me

We were in secondary school at the time, the teachers were not impressed!!!!

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Actual Line: Spare me this life from this monstrosity (or something like that)
We Sang: Spare me this life and the walls sausages.

And does anyone know the actual words of the chorus of REM's Sidewinder Sleeps
as all we can here is 'Calling Cheryl Baker'...

Piglets Pal~~

Believe it or not it's supposed to be
Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her

:-)

Re "Sidewinder" - I always thought it was Going To Jamaica, and then something like - I can always keep standing up

PP

I was going to post that line about the wife and kids last night, as that was what I always sang....but thought no best not

I do have that single on vinyl, but was too young to buy it in april 1969, I think I swapped something for it a few years later.

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"

This here is the place where I will be staying
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more, oh
If I don't pick up, pick up
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil

Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up, call me when you try to wake her, oh

There are scratches all around the coin slot
Like a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up
But this machine can only swallow money
You can't lay a patch by computer design
It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs

Tell her
Tell her she can kiss my ass
Then laugh and say that you were only kidding
That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me
CHORUS

Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me
Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial
A can of beans or black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading from Doctor Seuss
CHORUS

The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way
Always had a smile and a reason to pretend
But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream
The sidewinder sleeps on his back
CHORUS
CHORUS

We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one

Oh, I see - I thought that "the sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in the car".! :-D

For some reason ever since I saw the title of this thread I keep hearing Julie Andrews singing The Hills are Alive.......

My friends husband always sang (and believed he was right) the Neil Diamond song was The reverend Blue Jeans not Forever in Blue Jeans... ;-)