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Dodgy Song Lyrics

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I’m hopeless at remembering the words to songs – further complicated by the fact that I usually don’t understand them properly in the first place 😉 .

Here are just some examples of the dodgy song lyrics I’ve come up with over the years …

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Dodgy Song Lyrics #1

Diana Ross: Upside Down

Any other 80’s music fans remember this one? The correct version of the chorus is: “Upside down, boy you turn me, inside out, and round and round …”

Janet’s dodgy song lyrics version goes like this: “Upside down, for eternity, inside out, and round and round …”

At least it kind of makes sense, right?!

Dodgy Song Lyrics #2

Deee Lite: Groove is in the Heart

Another oldie – this time from 1990. For years, I thought the title line in the chorus was “Boobs are Big a-ha-ahhhhhhhhhh”. Yep. Let’s just hope I never sang it around anybody else. Then I thought it was “Bruises of the Heart” … finally I realised that it was actually “Groove is in the Heart” (and that may have been just now while I was trying to find out who sang the song!) …

Dodgy Song Lyrics #3

Beyonce: All the Single Ladies

More recently, it took me ages to realise that I had the lyrics wrong to this catchy little tune by Beyonce. Instead of “all the single ladies”, I heard: “I’ll assimilate; I’ll assimilate”. I just thought it was a very sad reflection on our society, that the goal was for everybody to fit in and assimilate. Whatever happened to being individual?! Dreadful things we are communicating to our young people in popular music these days!

 

I’ll just go clean that wax out of my ears now ….

While I’m doing that – what are some of the dodgy song lyrics you’ve been singing over the years?

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  1. My friend thought that one of the lines in Sherbets “Howzat” was, “Howzat! Pissed all over the carpet now, howzat!”

    • I’m glad I’m not the only one that couldn’t understand this song 😉

  3. My daughter used to sing the No Doubt song “underneath the dog” instead of “underneath it all” ha ha ha. Have you seen the SNL skit with Justin Timberlake as a backup dancer for Beyonce singing “Single Ladies”? Hilarious!!