Have you ever listened to a long for YEARS and then later discovered that the lyrics you thought it had are WRONG?!?
I have done that several times.
The most recent was the song Cocaine by Eric Clapton
The lyrics are
*** She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie — Cocaine
What did I think the lyrics were?
*** It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right — it’s ok
Yes indeed.
Perhaps it was my naivety. I don‘t know.
I discovered this misinterpretation when a friend mentioned online that she liked Eric Clapton’s song Cocaine. So I said I wasn’t familiar with it and she sent the link to the YouTube video. I listened and said, “Oh my goodness, that’s what he was saying?”
All those years of not realizing what it said.
Another one was the opposite. Are you familiar with the song “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly?
Well, as a child, I was certain that the lyrics were “In the Garden of Eden” until everyone told me I was wrong, that it was actually “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida“. I asked what meant and, of course, no one knew.
Many years later I heard this (now it can be read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ) ‘”In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” was written during Iron Butterfly’s early days. According to drummer Ron Bushy, organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be “in the Garden of Eden” was interpreted by Bushy as “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.’
So I WAS RIGHT!!! It was In the Garden of Eden!!!
So silly, so silly.
Do you have any you misinterpreted? There are some great YouTube videos from comedians using misinterpreted lyrics!
Talk to you later.
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