Lyrically challenged
Oct. 1st, 2020 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI was listening to Spotify while I was making brownies this afternoon, and one of the songs that came up also happens to be one of those songs whose lyrics I misheard for years.
For years, I heard the lyrics of a song by The Clash as "Rockin' the cash bar." I never really paid much attention to the rest of the lyrics and assumed it was a drinking song.
It was a long time before I learned that the lyrics of that song by Wild Cherry did not go: "... somebody turned around and shouted 'play that fucking music right, boy. Play that fucking music right..."
For years, I heard the lyrics of a song by The Clash as "Rockin' the cash bar." I never really paid much attention to the rest of the lyrics and assumed it was a drinking song.
It was a long time before I learned that the lyrics of that song by Wild Cherry did not go: "... somebody turned around and shouted 'play that fucking music right, boy. Play that fucking music right..."
