Misheard Lyrics

The actual, Yellow Ledbetter lyrics (Love the guitar !)

Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat
Then you said i wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away yeah...
And they called and I said that I want what I said
And then I call out again
And the reason oughta leave her calm I know
I said i dont know whether
Im the boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they dont wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I dont want to stay...

Make me cry <guitar solo>

Ooooh I see
I dont know theres something else
I wanna drum it all away
Oh I said I dont, I dont know whether Im a boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they dont wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I dont want to stay
I dont wanna stay (2x)
Dont
Dont wanna
Oh... yeah... oooh...

Heck Joe Cocker could have done the song better! :rofl:
Joe at wood stock ....a little help from me friends...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...z5NZHEqQKotrm3BQ&q=joe+cocker+pearl+jam&hl=en
 
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years back a youngster i had working for me said they heard the "bathroom on the right" song on my shop stereo......after some questioning i figured out it was ccr "bad moon on the rise".....still chuckle.
 
Very Funny Vaughn! BTW I'm a big fan of PJ, saw them for the first time in 1991 at a free concert at the University of Kansas.

I had a friend that thought "Werewolves of London" was "Where was the Thunder"....
 
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And the debate still rages to this day!

The Kingsmen's version (1965)

Louie Louie Lyrics (Maybe! :) )


CHORUS:

Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go

Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home

CHORUS

Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.

CHORUS

Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!

GUITAR SOLO

See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again

CHORUS

Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGG5cVaPGvE&feature=related
 
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There were even Congressional hearings over that song. It was played slow, fast, front wards, back wards by folks trying to prove that the words were bad, including satanic. I believe the outcome was that they were simply so unintelligible that they weren't words at all.
Regardless, some of today's hip-hop lyrics are so foul that anything that might have been in Louie-Louie would be considered tame these days.
 
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