"there's a bad moon on the right."

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Yeah. "Soul Man" was already a Sixties classic by Sam and Dave when the Blues Bros. revived it in the 80s. So its a double sacreligous thing to deface the lyrics!

Always thought the words were "there's a bad moon on the rise"

Are you dyslexic?

Thats what were all talking about. Those ARE the correct words.

"I'm this old man."

"whoomp there it is!" heard as "whoop that ass!"

I heard it as "Whoomp...bad ASS....whoomp...bad ASS".

" there's a bathroom on the right" I remember a a DJ on a classic rock station making fun of that.

Of course Manfred Man's earth band, Blinded by the light or " The douche song".

Bruce Springsteen has always been a mumbler to me. Born to run has always sounded like " Bench fried gus" which in reality is " tramps like us".

Don't go around tonight. Well, it's bound to take your life. There's a bad moon on the rise.

Sung as

Don't go around tonight. Well, it's bound to take your light. There's a bad moon on the right.

This is what is being sung. The singer pronounces "life" and "rise" to rhyme with "tonight". He doesn't say them right.

that needs to be a song in its own right.

Maybe its my bad. I assume that everyone is in on "the joke". Which is prolly a bad assumption.

Apologies.

The actual title and the lyrics are indeed "there's a bad moon on the rise".

But some folks would hear it as "there's a bathroom on the right". Which turns the ominous tale of supernatural doom ...into...something mundane (welcome to our Amway seminar here at the motor inn...there is a bathroom on the right). Which makes it funny. So that wrong version became a running joke.

So when you claim that you're hearing "there is bad moon on the right" you're only doing half of the mistake, doing a half right and half wrong version, AND you're messing up the running joke. And on top of that (as Sweetleaf points out) it doesnt even make sense. If there were a scary blood red moon rising in the sky you would say "there is a bad moon". You wouldnt specify right or left because (unlike Jupiter) Earth only has one moon in its sky. Both the "bad moon rise" and "bathroom right" versions have internal logic that "bad moon right" doesnt have.

Well...here it is.
Sounds more like "rye" than either "rise" or "right" to me.

"I'm blue if I was green I would die. If I was green I would die."

"Rock the casbah" misheard as various different things

Speaking of CCR

The actual lyrics “Bring a nickel, tap your feet”

When it first came out and for years I misheard. “Bring a n****r, tap your feet”. I was surprised “that” was allowed on the radio. I don’t know why “Nickel” makes perfect sense in a song about street entertainers. Maybe it was because “Willy” is not an uncommon nickname for black people or because of the association of black people with tap dancing, I don’t remember.




A lot people including me thought “deuce” was “douche”.





https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments ... ?rdt=37630


I and I think most people have misheard the missung lyrics all these years.

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Yeah. Back in the 80s the young supervisor of the store I worked at would often invite us all to join him at happy hour after work at a bar up the street. One happy hour he told us all about a cool new song on the radio that went "rock the cash bar ...rock the cash bar". A song about "the cash bar" as opposed to "the open bar in the same place that would take credit cards!".

I kept my mouth shut and choose not to embarrass him by saying that the Clash were singing about "the Casbah" (the old medieval section of any Middle Eastern city). Not a "cash bar".


But maybe I shouldnt laugh at him. In all fairness...the only reason I knew what a "Casbah" was was because when I was a little kid in the Sixties every stand up comic on TV would impersonate Charles Boyer saying "come vith me to zee Casbah" to Heddy La Mar in the 1937 movie "Algiers" (Boyer as Pepe La Moco: a French jewel thief who hid in the old town of Algiers)...and I pestered mom and dad to explain it to me.


https://youtu.be/HMnbNTv_D3A

Peppe le Pew would also say “come with me to the Casbah, where we will make beautiful music together”.

I understand that the lyrics “kiss the sky” were so often misheard as “kiss this guy” that the original singer, Jimi Hendrix, would grab a member of his band and kiss him just to keep the joke going when preforming the song live.

Selena Gomez’ song “Good for You”:
Wrong: “I’m farting carrots,”
Right: “I’m 14 carat.”

John Travolta and Olivia Newton John’s song “Grease”
Wrong: “I got heels, they’re made of plywood”
Wrong: “I got FLEAS! They’re multiplying”
Right: “I got chills, they’re multiplying”

Eurythmics’ song “Sweet Dreams”
Wrong: “Sweet dreams are made of cheese.”
Right: “Sweet dreams are made of this”

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