Songs that have been ruined for you.

"Carol of the Bells" has been ruined for me, by a holiday commercial from Garmin;

 

Does anyone else remember the old hippie song by the Byrds, Hey Mr. Trampoline Man?

 

I do....I think Bobby Dylan actually wrote it, but I liked the Byrds version better.

 

I think you're right without looking it up. But the byrds version is definitely better

 

“8 Days a Week” was just ruined by the Passover version we sang at temple yesterday. The chorus goes “Ain’t got nothin’ but matzoh..8 days? A week?”

 

Sticking with the Beatles, a Beach Boys song I've come to love(Girl, Don't Tell Me) has been said to sound very much like the Beatles Ticket To Ride- the melody, not the lyrics. I see SOME argument to that, but I'll take the the Beach Boys hit over that of the Beatles any time.

 

Isn't it "Tambourine Man"?

 

Maybe... but I think I would like to hear Hey Mr. Trampoline Man.

 

And I thought it was “Mr. Tangerine Man.”

 

All this time I thought it was "Tan Latrine Man".

 

Surely if he were the latrine man he would be more than tan!

 

Here's one of the many parts of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reeper" that I originally thought it was

"40,000 men win'em everyday" (It's 40,000 men&women everyday)

 

I said on a radio call-in talk show that Bob Dylan ruined the Beatles by turning them on to pot. Then I laughed when parts of the show were played back live later in the day-including my call!!! But I'm no Dylan fan either. That isn;t even his real name.

 

A couple I’ve recently come across;
1) I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
I can see all popsicles in my way

2) Knock, knock, knockin’ on Kevin’s door

3)I’ve got 2 chickens to paralyze.

 

Number two reminds me of "let Milo open the door."
(The who's let My Love Open the door)

 

Thank you for reviving this thread and making me reread it from the beginning. I'm still laughing.

 

Happy to oblige!

 

A couple more come to mind now.
1) It’s a nice day for a light sweater (white wedding )
It’s a nice day for a cardigan (to start again.)

2) (According to my childhood babysitter) Row, row, row your boat underneath the stream.
Haha, I fooled you. I’m a submarine.

 

Did you know that the words to My Darling Clementine are a perfect fit to the melody of The Ode to Joy?

 

It also works for the Catholic Eucharistic hymn, Tantum Ergo. (written by St Thomas Aquinas c. 1264)


Edit: and Amazing Grace can be sung to the Gilligan's Island theme.