Hey, it's Mike Waters from The Waters' Wake Up Call.
We were talking my favorite Tunes Day topic this morning.
Misheard lyrics.
My buddies and I were playing a game where you had to come up with different songs, fitting a category.
My buddy's mom came up with Oh Sherry by Journey and it had to do with food and we're like, what does that have to do with food?
And she's like, well, the funnest words are cinnamon gum.
And I said, what?
And she's like, you know, cinnamon gum.
I'm like, no, it should have been gone.
But
OK.
Cinnamon gum.
Oh my god.
That is now in the pantheon of great misheard lyrics.
Cinnamon gum.
Oh, yeah, and it's like every time I hear that, I think cinnamon gum.
What's the next line after should have been gone?
Knowing how I feel.
Cinnamon gum, knowing how I feel.
That makes it even better.
If cinnamon gum wouldn't know how you feel, it can't empathize.
You have to say, my body wanted to go crawl underneath the rock, and he's like, I can't believe.
Mm, mink, mink, mink, mink, mink, mink, mink.
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Yeah, Happy Tunes Day.
Happy Tunes Day to you, sir.
I wonder if there are any good, misheard lyrics in hollownotes songs.
Oh boy, but there's a couple.
I didn't really think about that.
Yeah,
I didn't either, but I'm just googling as I talk to you here.
Wow.
There is one in Man Eater.
Whoa, here she comes.
She's a bad reader.
There's that one.
Or she's a band leader.
Really?
Or she's a mad cheetah.
Wow.
I guess I never really picked up on any of
those.
For years, as I was listening to Aerosmith's Dude Looks Like a Lady, I always thought it was Do the Funky Lady.
I like it.
I like it.
Do the Funky Lady.
Like a dance?
Like you're doing it like the funky chicken?
Exactly.
Do the Funky Lady.
Boy, now we should make up moves for that.
Exactly.
And
so I only figured it out because I looked at
screen on my car and it said, dude looks like a lady.
And I'm like, uh, okay.
I guess I've been here in that rock.
I guess you have.
Do you know, do you know what inspired Steven Tyler to write that song?
I do not.
He was in a bar and he sees this very attractive lady from behind and went up, went up to her.
It ended up being Vince Neil of Motley Crew.
That's
fine.
Yeah, I don't know if Stephen Tyler said something to Vince before he figured it out, but I hope he figured it out before he opened his mouth.
That's all I can say.
I hope so, too.
Otherwise, he should have been doing the funky lady.
He's doing the funky lady.
That's because he looked like one.
The all-time classic in my family, my brother's girlfriend, we were riding home from Detastling one day, and we were all singing in the car.
And she was singing.
Pardon me, Roy.
Is that the cat that chews the new shoes?
What?
The cat that chews the
new shoes.
Yeah, right.
It
was just hilarious.
See, that's called a big family joke.
Go through that one more time.
Pardon me, Roy.
Is that the cat that chewed the new shoes?
The cat that chewed the new shoes?
Yes.
Was that a misheard lyric or was that something they made
up?
No, no, that was a misheard lyric.
That's what she thought they were singing.
Wow.
That's what
made it so hilarious.
But that's great.
Pardon me, Roy.
Is that the cat that chewed the new shoes?
Exactly.
Okay, so Mike is, when it says rock the cash box, it sounds like F the cash box.
Are you saying cash box?
Yeah.
Because you have that wrong too.
Okay, well then I have the whole thing wrong.
Yeah, it's Kazba.
Well, Kazba.
The Kazba.
That's the cash box.
It's Kazba.
And then you thought rock was something I can't say on the radio.
Correct.
OK.
I always, for a joke, sing rock the cash bar, meaning if I'm at a wedding, oh, I'm going to drink.
Yeah.
You're damn right.
But yeah, that's funny.
And now I have you set straight on the whole song, rock the Kazba.
Rock the Kazba.
It always sounds like that's the Kazba.
Well, if there's no cash in the cash box, then yes, that's exactly what I would be saying.
That
should be their song.
That should be Mount Vernon's song.
That's great.
I'm good.
How are you?
Excellent.
Excellent.
Yeah.
Yeah, Mr. Lyric, what do you got?
Aerosmith, sweet emotion.
Yeah.
I had a buddy who had always come on and he was saying, swim the ocean.
He thought of swim the ocean instead of sweet emotion.
That's great.
Oh, yeah.
I'll have to listen to that a little more clearly.
We'll have to play that song and keep that in mind.
Swim the ocean.
He
definitely appreciate it.
Well, good morning.
Well, good morning, Iron Man.
How are you?
All right.
Good.
Are we talking Mr. Lyric's here, Iron Man?
Well, I know there's one by Stevie Nicks with the dove, but anyway.
Just like the one-wing dove?
Yes.
I want to say it's like one.
White Dove or something like that.
It's White Wing Dove.
Yeah.
Just like the White Wing Dove sings the song, sounds like she's singing.
You wouldn't be doing much singing if you only had one wing because you'd be concentrating on not hurting yourself when you hit the ground.
I know.
Yeah.
So George Michaels, I'll be your father figure.
Yeah.
I thought he was saying, I'll be your bottom seeker.
Man, that might be the best one I've ever heard.
Four years, I thought that.
Like, I just could not understand the song and why it was so celebrated.
Talk about the hottest thing to sing about ever.
Several years ago, I heard somebody call into a radio station and ask to hear the Bean Enchilada song.
The Bean Enchilada song?
Yeah, and the DJ says, I've never heard of it before.
The guy trying a little bit of it, he says, I think you mean the Pina Colada song.
If
you like bean enchiladas
Oh,
you know it is Taco Tuesday.
I may have to have a bean enchilada with my pina colada
Someone brought my attention about a year or two ago.
Okay, but if you listen to bad medicine,
yeah
Your love is like Ted Danson Ted Danson's what I need.
Have you tested this?
Have you listened to it and heard Ted Danson?
A few times.
Okay, I got it
I'd never hear Ted Danson in Bad Medicine.
We will now enjoy your new life.
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
10.
