QOTD: Messed Up Lyrics

Have you ever realized that you had been singing the words to a popular song completely wrong for years? I went the longest time before my older sister corrected me for singing the wrong words to Bruce Springsteen’s Brilliant Disguise. I was singing, “Is that you, Baby or just a brick in disguise?” instead of “Is that you, Baby or just a brilliant disguise?”

This is the image I had in my mind as I sang.

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Ignatz and Krazy Kat

My cousin Loretta thought Elton John was singing, “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” in his song Tiny Dancer.

How about you? What is the silliest / strangest mangling you have done to the lyrics of a song?

Photo Credits: Cartoon: Wikimedia Commons

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