Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for May 07, 2016

Have you ever been deranged?And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who’ll stop Lorraine.Oh Lord, stalking an old guy again.Have you ever seen Lorraine? (That Lorraine ain’t nothin’ but trouble)Memories benevolent, of playing in the band…………..kissthisguy.com

Actually, John Fogarty has been known to sing the ‘Bathroom on the Right’ lyrics on occasion during live performances of ‘Bad Moon Rising’. And John Mammoser has done a song called ‘Bathroom on the Right’ which has gotten a lot of play on the Dr. Demento Show. So Sluggo may be singing the wrong lyrics, but it’s still okay to do it. Just look at Weird Al.

♪Dead ants are my friends; they’re blowin’ in the wind♪♪She’s got a chicken to ride♪♪Donuts make my brown eyes blue♪♪Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby♪

FWIW, Weird Al, Allan Sherman, et al, are a different category altogether. They deliberately parody songs by changing the words (or adding them, in the case of “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”). The humor Sluggo’s expressing is misheard lyrics— check the website I referenced, kissthisguy.com (from Jimi Hendrix’s “’Cuse me while I kiss the sky.”) for more hilarious examples.

I misheard these for years:

“Life’s too short, and you’re so sweet” [Last year’s shorts….]

“Little Saint Nick, little Saint Nick” [Little pink dick, little pink dick…]

My dad did a good one:“George, George, George of the JungleWent to U.S.C.”

“As we walked in fields of garlic”They’re all so called Mondergreens.

“Gimme the Beach Boys and free my soul !”

Opening to Lion King:

“PENNSYLVANIA”!!!

In the song “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight” I hear “There’s a warm wind blowing the stars around”

aaf709, Um, those aren’t the actual words? Um…

Darn. I kinda liked the imagery of tree branches swaying in a summer wind, so that the stars seem to move among the leaves.

I forgot Spike Jones and the City Slickers. Very popular from the thirties through the fifties. Their number one song was Der Furer’s Face.

Very common that Bathroom…..is heard.