When Karaoke Gets The Words Wrong

I did see "Song for Guy" on one karaoke list once.

Just for getting some dude up on stage and stand there, embarrassed, for 4 mins until the final 30 seconds, I guess.

I saw "listen to the love weep" for "teenage rebel of the week" in Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain" at the Rainbow Club in the fall of 1998.

Actually, Norwegian singer/songwriter Finn Kalvik has written lyrics to "Song For Guy", released as "Alle Som Blir Igjen" on his 1979 album "Kom Ut Kom Fram" (produced by Benny Andersson). Needless to say, the lyrics are in Norwegian though....

"Come, Dustin Mark
Saruptin Bleach
As I want you to be."

I mean, really!

On the Fugees' "Ready Or Not:"

"I refugee from Guantomolo Bay"

I feel her breath in my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my LIPS

(Patrick Swayze's "She's like the Wind")
Correct word is "league" of course.

On the Fugees' "Ready Or Not:"

"I refugee from Guantomolo Bay"

― Doctor Casino, Monday, May 10, 2010 4:52 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

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You can't run away
From these styles I got,
hey baby, oh baby
You can't hide from the black

the asian karaoke place i wnt to last new year's listed the popular recording artists wyclef jeans and fat domino

Once I sang Trio's "Da Da Da" and the pre-chorus was simply "some German mumbling."

My ex postyed this one on his tumblr from a recent karaoke:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5ck6biswC1qb9jido1_500.jpg

I asked him what song the heck it was and he said he thinks it was Blondies "heart of glass" which has me freaking baffled.

Unfortunately for Blondie, "A cracked polystyrene man" is a lyric from "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead. But the background is a nice touch!

my local karaoke host, probably in the rush to type them up, attributed "All By Myself" to Eric Cartman

On "Pump It Up" by Elvis Costello:

Listen to the propaganda
Listen to the latest Santa

I like to think this is actually a command: "Listen to the latest, Santa!"...

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, "The Tears Of A Clown":

"Just like Polly Archer did
I try to keep my sadness hid"

Should be "just like Pagliacci did"

Eh -- even worse is when the singers get the words wrong.

I did "What's My Name" by Snoop the other night and pretty much know the words by heart so I didn't look at the screen much, but when I looked down, I saw some funny shit like

"so peep up on manuscript
ya see, it is a must we drop thanks to this"

My kids think Jimi sings: Scuse me while I kiss this guy

This is from a lyrics site, not karaoke, but omg:

Rope-a-dope dookies all around the neck
Whoo ha... garcon, the check!

Spent my money, took my car
Decided to tell the French she's gonna be a star

the karaoke version of "Hip Hop Hooray" basically looks like rap lyrics as filtered through the mind of a 9-year old kid

From the karaoke version of Outkast's "Ms Jackson". glad I knew the real words, cuz...damn.

A baby drama mama don't like me
She doin things like havin her boys, some from the neighborhood
To the studio tryin to fight me

She need to get a piece of the American pie, take her bite out
That's my house, I disconnect the cable and turn the lights (out?)
And let her know her grandchild is a baby, and not a paycheck
Private school, daycare, shit medical bills, I'll pay that

I love your mom and everything, see I ain't the one who laid down
She wanna rip you up started cussin' you all, my lawyers stayed down
She never got to hear my side of the story when we was divided
She had fifths out, cookouts, on my child's birthday, I ain't invited?
Despite it, show her the utmost respect when I fall through
All you do is defend that lady when I call you

Me and you daughter
Got a special thing going on
You say it's puppy love
We say it's full grown
Hope that we feel this
Feel this way forever
You can plan a pretty picnic
But you can't predict the weather, Ms. Jackson

Ten times out of nine, now if I'm blind fine
The quickest muzzle throw it on my mouth and I'll decline
King meets queen, then the puppy love thing, together dream
Bout that crib with the goodyear swing
On the oak tree, I hope we feel like this forever
Forever, forever, ever, forever, ever?

Forever never seems that long until your grown
And notice that the day by day rule can't be too long
Ms. Jackson my intentions were good I wish I could
Become a magician to abracadabra off to Sata (???)
Thoughts of me, thoughts of she, thoughts of he
Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me
Had, I pray so much about it need some knee, pads
It happened for a reason one can't be, mad
So just know that everything is cool
Yes I will be present on the first day of school, and graduation

Uh, uh, yeah
"Look at the way he treats me,"
Shit, look at the way you treat me
See your lil nose ass homegirls got they ass in the creek G
Without a pad on, you left the straddlin, ride this thing on out
And the union girl aint speakin no more cuz my dick all in her mouth
Know what I'm talking about, jealousy, and fedelity, envy
Cheating, beating, and to the G's they be the same thing
So who you placing the blame on, you keep singing the same song
Let bygones be bygones, you can go on and get the hell on
You and your mama

The union girl!

p good way to have your dues jacked up iirc

Geramyre was a bullfrog

I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a limbless
Above the sad Kenya

and oh mannnn I found the full lyrics to the "Geramyre" version of "Joy to the World":

Geramyre was a bull frog, was a good friend of mine
I never understand a single word he said
But I helped him drink his wine
And you always have somebody about the wine, sing

* Joy to the world, all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me *

If I were a king of the world, tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and bars and them all
Make sweet love to you

You know I owed the ladies, love to have my fun
Oh, my hand now outside and the rainbow rider
And the straight shoe son of a gun
I said straight shoe son of a gun

hold my breathless I wish go dead
oh pls God wake me