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Singing the wrong lyrics

MC Paul Barman

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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".
 
do it all the time with a million different songs. it's embarrassing.
 
always have sang tiny dancer as "hold me closer Tony Danza."
 
"excuse me while I kiss this guy" -purple haze
 
"Wrapped up like a douche" instead of "revved up like a deuce".
 
do it all the time with a million different songs. it's embarrassing.

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.
 
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.
 
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