you picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille...

[ulysses]

Four hundred children and a crop in the field...

(what lyrics did you misunderstand when you were young? :) )

[ForrestGump]

1. Same one. I figured that it was about ants, termites, or something.

[wyldwolf]

2. banana woman.... banana woman to me...

BeeGees "More Than A Woman."

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Big old jet had a light on....

Just figured that one out recently. ;)

[amber dog democrat]

4. 4 hundred children and a truck with 3 wheels ?

this person is in a bad place either way.... who wrote it ....and when?

[bookfreak]

6. It was a Kenny Rogers song

And it was actually "4 hungry children and a crop in the fields"

[bookfreak]

5. Too funny!

That's exactly what I thought he was singing :D I was around 10 or something at the time.

I also used to think they were singing "Medieval woman" (Evil Woman)

[amber dog democrat]

7. I'll never leave your pizza burning ? Stones

There is a bathroom on the right. Creedence

there is an Elon John lyric

" she has electric boobs, and mohair pubes.... Bennie and the Jets

[ulysses]

8. "mohair pubes"???

:D:D:D:D:D

[amber dog democrat]

10. so what IS hw saying anyway. I still don't know.

Eats my chicken when I speed - Grateful Dead, / Sugar Magnolia

" Since you put me down, there's been owls pooping on my head "

Help Me Rhonda, Beach Boys.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. she's got electric boots and a mohair suit...

you know I read it in a magazine...

**at least I think that's what he's saying. ;)

[Rainbowreflect]

16. Sugar Magnolia - "Pays my ticket when I speed."

I use to think Jungle Love was Chug-a-lug. I though it was a drinking song. ;-)

[Richardo]

23. Pffft! "Owls pooping on my head"

I'm STILL laughing! :D

[LynneSin]

9. You picked a fine time to leave me Loose Wheel

:D

[ulysses]

12. So look at me now I'm just makin' my play

All you p*ssy-lickers get out of my way

AC/DC, "Back in Black" (I blame that one on my best friend in middle school...)

[Divernan]

13. Makes sense to me, Lynne

I'm laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes!

[demnan]

14. Stay in the bathroom for the night

"There is a bad moon on the rise" - Creedence.

[Drifter]

15. Nevermind

[mac56]

17. Slow-Motion Walter, the fire engine guy!

"Smoke On The Water"

[tigereye]

22. that's funny

never confused that one, since I heard it incessantly.

[Beware the Beast Man]

18. "There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do."

Can anybody guess that one?

[matcom]

19. Toto - "Africa"

:)

[mac56]

20. "It tastes very nice, food off the parking lot."

Any guesses?

[nuxvomica]

21. LOL. Big Yellow Taxi, I hope

By Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

[MallRat]

24. "This summer I hear the drumming..."

"For dead, hey, oh my oh."

My wife believed these were the lyrics for years. I wasn't until I explained to her that the song was about Kent State that she figured it out.

Her response was, "oh wow... the song makes much more sense now!"

:-)

-MR

[Shakespeare]

25. MONDEGREENS!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml

For those of you who have not yet received the pamphlet (mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile), the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.

As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this:

Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands
Oh where hae you been?
They hae slay the Earl of Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

Poor Lady Mondegreen, thought Sylvia Wright. A tragic heroine dying with her liege; how poetic. When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.

much, much more....