Lyrics Gone Wrong
I know we've talked about this before because I remember writing about 'Hold me Closer Tiny Dancer' and telling you that I always sing 'Hold me closer Tony Danza' substitute line.
Yet this morning I was driving around and Bruce's 'Tougher Than the Rest' happened to be playing.
Bruce sings:
Some girls they want a handsome Dan, or some good-looking Joe.
I automatically sang:
Some girls they want a handsome Cliff or some good-looking Jeff.
Because my college roommate, Jeff 'Fluffy' Taylor used to sing it that way 22 years ago.
There was also a line in 'Tunnel of Love' that Fluff had changed on me.
Bruce sings:
Fat man sitting on a little stool. He takes the money from my hands as his eyes take a walk all over you.
(A wonderfully descriptive sentence by the way. Writing-wise it doesn't get much more concise than that).
Fluff used to sing:
Fuzzy sitting on a little stool.
(An equally effective way to write a solid joke).
And I suppose that it's fun to absolutely ruin a song for years and years, but I smile each time I think of it.
My brother John is good at it.
He makes up a lot of his own lyrics.
My brother-in-law Chuck is the absolute master though.
I know I ended the last blog about this in the same manner, but Paul Young sang it this way:
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you.
Grand old Chaz changed it to:
Every time you go away you take a piece of cheese with you.
Five verses later the song winds down.
Paul Young emphatically belts out:
Don't leave me all alone.
Charlie sums it all up as such:
Don't take the provolone.
It doesn't get much better than that.
Yet this morning I was driving around and Bruce's 'Tougher Than the Rest' happened to be playing.
Bruce sings:
Some girls they want a handsome Dan, or some good-looking Joe.
I automatically sang:
Some girls they want a handsome Cliff or some good-looking Jeff.
Because my college roommate, Jeff 'Fluffy' Taylor used to sing it that way 22 years ago.
There was also a line in 'Tunnel of Love' that Fluff had changed on me.
Bruce sings:
Fat man sitting on a little stool. He takes the money from my hands as his eyes take a walk all over you.
(A wonderfully descriptive sentence by the way. Writing-wise it doesn't get much more concise than that).
Fluff used to sing:
Fuzzy sitting on a little stool.
(An equally effective way to write a solid joke).
And I suppose that it's fun to absolutely ruin a song for years and years, but I smile each time I think of it.
My brother John is good at it.
He makes up a lot of his own lyrics.
My brother-in-law Chuck is the absolute master though.
I know I ended the last blog about this in the same manner, but Paul Young sang it this way:
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you.
Grand old Chaz changed it to:
Every time you go away you take a piece of cheese with you.
Five verses later the song winds down.
Paul Young emphatically belts out:
Don't leave me all alone.
Charlie sums it all up as such:
Don't take the provolone.
It doesn't get much better than that.
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