Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Lyrics

One of my favorite things is when you find out you've been singing a song wrong for years. I had this experience the other day. I was driving home from a friend's house and a Gin Blossoms' song came on, "Hey Jealousy." Don't laugh too hard, but I always thought the song said, "Hey Josie." I know, I was shocked when the radio announced the name of the song. And then I had a good laugh at myself. I know you've all done this before, except for maybe Tracy. I guess the way I sang it might not have made any sense, but I've never really paid enough attention to the song to know what it's actually talking about.

There are, of course, other songs that I've sung the wrong words to. I used to sing, "When you love a woman tell her that she is a woman." I know, it doesn't make sense. I think that's why I hated that song...not that I like it now. It's a stupid song, but the real lyrics are slightly better than my version. "When you love a woman tell her that she is the one."

4 comments:

Lynda/Mom said...

The ones little kids do are also funny. I don't have any examples at hand except my own: I used to sing Silent Night with the line "Holy infant so tender and mild," as "Holy infercan" until one day I asked my mom wat an "infercan" was and she had me tell her where I heard it and laughed so loud I was just totally embarrassed. Maybe it runs in the family!

Sandy Brunson said...

Hey Josie!?! You are making that up! Funny. So you never really got how funny it was when Jimmy was singing "Hey Jealousy. They are all jealous of me. Cuz I have my own seat." Remember that?

Megan Campbell Carter said...

Funny. My sister does that all the time....she used to think "how bizarre" was "papa's art."

MaryAnn said...

It is well known that I do that all the time. It is pretty funny, I must admit.