The one I always screwed up: Atlantic City by Springsteen. "Put your make up on, fix your hair up pretty/ meet me tonight in Atlantic City". I would sing it: "But you make a poem, fix your hair up pretty".
Back when I was a kid I looked like a complete fool.... Shortly after the Beastie Boys first album came out I was rapping along with some friends. First: I messed up "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves" as "Ali Baba and the 4 leafed thieves" (like a shamrock I was thinking). Then the lyric: "man, livin' at home is such a drag/ now your mom threw away your best p orno mag" But I was singing it as: "your mom threw away your best torn up rags" (like skater clothes or something).... I had no idea what a magazine like that even was. needless to say, I was mocked.
license to ill. that was a seminal work in the early days of white rappers. i did always feel "rhymin' and stealin'" was somewhat underrated.
i never cared for the manfred mann version. i much prefer springsteen's. you can tell what he says better in that lyric too. his version is actually : cut loose like a deuce.
