Friday Follow & What Did You Say?

Happy Friday everyone.  Hopefully all your weekend plans will go smoothly and still leave you enough time to recuperate and rest for Monday.  I’m linking up with Java over at Never Growing Old for Friday Follow.  She’s hosts it every week, as well as a Blogger list of Over 40 Bloggers.  If you’re looking for some new reading material, make sure to check the list out. 

Yesterday on the Facebook, one of the girls I went to high school with mentioned how much she liked the new Volkswagon Passat commercial and the misheard lyrics for Elton John’s song Rocket Man.  We’ve all probably done the same thing once or twice in our life. There's even a Friends episode where they’re discussing the most romantic song ever and Phoebe thinks it’s that song Elton John wrote for the Who’s the Boss? guy and then starts singing, “Hold me close, young Tony Danza”. 

Anyway, I told my friend that commercial makes me smile and remember when Katiebug was a teeniney little girl and thought the song was “When A Man WAS A Woman”…or when she wanted to “Rock and Roll all night. And PART of everyday”.  Not the whole day mind you; just part.  (And not party like KISS was singing in the song.)  My friend said it was only last week when she read the lyrics to Don McLean’s “American Pie” that she found out that song was in fact, not about her and he was not going to ‘drive Michelley to the levee’ but instead the Chevy.  Not to be left out, I may or may not have believed Keith Urban had some major product placement in his song when he told that girl to “take her cotton Levi sweater”.  That is, until I learned he really said “take your cat and leave my sweater.”

There is, in fact, a website dedicated to misheard  lyrics and some of them will make you literally laugh out loud.  Like the one about “Sixteen Tons”.  The misheard lyric was “Yuh load sixteen tons and what do you get. Another deodorant, deeper in debt” when in actuality it’s “You load sixteen tons and what do you get.  Another DAY OLDER and deeper in debt.” Or what about the Dolly Parton song “9 to 5”?  The misheard lyrics were: “Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of damn b****in'.” The correct lyrics are: ‘Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, Pour myself a cup of AMBITION.' That reminds me. Candance said she sings that song in her head every morning as she walks to the kitchen to make coffee.  I’m going to have to ask her just what it is she’s singing. 

So now, y’all have to have some incidents of misheard lyrics.  Let me hear about it.  I can’t wait.  Have a great weekend!