And other sing-a-wrongs
We've all been there - singing away in the car or at home and someone bursts out laughing and asks what you're singing? Walk like an itchy man, it's a song from 1986 by The Bangles. That's why they're walking funny. They're itchy.
No? Oh... aaaaah. Okay, that makes perfect sense. I'm not the only one to sing-a-wrong...
- “Money for nothin’ and chips for free” - Dire Straits
- “Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you” from Paul Young’s ‘Every Time You Go Away’
I used to think the Christmas hymn Silent Night featured a rotund man called Round John Virgin.
— Seánie (@seanieflanagan) September 24, 2019
- "Sweet dreams are made of cheese" - Eurythmics
- “We built this city on sausage rolls” from Starship.
I’m going ride till I can’t no more brighten up my morning
— Sheila comerford (@Munstersheils) September 24, 2019
- “Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tangerine” – Abba Dancing Queen
Mine was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. I worked in a sewing factory at the time. I would sing/screech at the top of my lungs “spare him his life for the pork sausages”, . It made perfect sense to me at the time
— christine o halloran (@tinaohalloran) September 24, 2019
- “I can see clearly now, Lorraine is gone”
- “When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have boobies! – Pussycat Dolls (the word – apparently – is groupies)
- “Morning Paula. My son used to love Florence and the Machines ‘you're giving me sexy broadband’”
- “It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not!” – Bon Jovi, Livin’ On A Prayer
My nephew used to sing "My socks are on fire" when he was really young. Nobody corrected him.
— Caitriona (@Caitr1ona) September 24, 2019
- “Then I saw her face, now I’m gonna leave her” – The Monkees
- “I used to work with a guy who sang 'clean jeans and rashers only 45' by Cornershop. I hadn't the heart to tell him it was wrong!”
- “Mousse T - Horny. My mum thought she was singing about being 40!”
- “Hi Paula A German friend of mine thought that Something Happens, Parachute went ‘take a pair of shoes and jump’. A bit more adventurous than the norm!” - Vince
- “’I’m Terry Wogan instead of ‘I’m Every Woman’”
- “Let’s pee in the corner, let’s pee in the spotlight” - REM
- “Poppadom peach”
- “’You’re the wobbly one’ instead of ‘you’re the one that I want’ from Grease!”
- “As a kid we thought the last line of our National Anthem was… ‘chasing Connie around the field!’” – Mike
I used to think Whitney Houston’s song was “Didn’t we almost have it off”
How wrong I was!— CharliesAngel (@tiedtheknot) September 24, 2019
- “Paula your show is giving me some great laughs this morning as always. You just played, Feisty Like Me - heard my boss singing it yesterday ‘fasting like me’ -he could do with a diet himself.” - Brian on the way to Dublin
- “Hi Paula what about Wes, Alane sounds like ‘Tall man in Tallaght’! Feel free to give it a play if you’re looking it up!” - John in Wexford
- “’Kickin chicken with it’ instead of ‘getting’ jiggy with it’!”
- “Paula, for years I thought the line in summer of ‘69 was ‘Jimmy, Craig, Jody, Cath and Mary’ instead of Jimmy quit, Jody got married’! Silly me!” - Shane in Cork
- “Maroon 5 – ‘This love has taken Listowell on me’ – Damien, Cavan
- “The Corrs wanted someone to leave them 'Breakfast’!” - Owen, Cork
- “’Nothing breaks like a fart’ by Mark Ronson!” - Laoise
