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There are 29 misheard song lyrics for Gordon Lightfoot on amIright currently.

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"Alberta Bound"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's good to be under the ground.
Original Lyrics:
It's good to be Alberta bound.
"Alberta Bound"
Misheard Lyrics:
No one-eyed man could ever get the Rocky Mountain sunset.
Original Lyrics:
No one I met could e're forget the Rocky Mountain sunset.
The version I listen to is from "Gord's Gold: Vol.2", not the original album.
"Carefree Highway"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every highway, let me slip away on you
Every highway, you've seen better days
Tomorrow after blues, from my head down to my shoes
Every highway let's me slip away, slip away on you.
Original Lyrics:
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, you've seen better days
The mornin' after blues, from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
"Carefree Highway"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every highway
Original Lyrics:
Carefree highway
"Carefree Highway"
Misheard Lyrics:
The mornin' after glory from my head down to my shoes
Every highway, that means slip away
Slip away from you
or
The mornin' after glowin' from my head down to my shoes
Every highway, that means slip away
Slip away from you.
Original Lyrics:
The mornin' after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away
Slip away on you.
"Cotton Jenny"
Misheard Lyrics:
Weasel loves da go-round.
Original Lyrics:
Wheels of Love go 'round.
"Daylight Katy"
Misheard Lyrics:
Treeline kitty, go home.
Original Lyrics:
Daylight Katy, come on.
"Ghosts Of Cape Horn"
Misheard Lyrics:
They are the ghosts of gay porn.
Original Lyrics:
They are the ghosts of Cape Horn.
"If You Could Read My Mind"
Misheard Lyrics:
If you could read my mind, love
What a tail a fox would tell.
Original Lyrics:
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts would tell.
"Rainy Day People"
Misheard Lyrics:
Rainy day people don't cry
They just listen to the Early Show.
Original Lyrics:
Rainy day people don't talk
They just listen till they've heard it all.
"Steel Rail Blues"
Misheard Lyrics:
Here I am with my head in the sand.
Original Lyrics:
Here I am with my hat in hand.
I'll have to listen to this again. Every version I've looked up says, 'hat in hand'. I wonder if that means they're right.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
If I find you've been creepin' down and up them stairs
Original Lyrics:
If I find you've been creepin' 'round my backstairs
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
If I find you've been drinking 'round my back step.
Original Lyrics:
If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's a hard leather woman, got me feelin' mean.
or
She's a hot-leather woman, got me feelin' mean.
Original Lyrics:
She's a hard lovin' woman, got me feelin' mean.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sometimes at Better Day Kids'
And I'll find you've been creeping and I'm not that stiff
Sometimes, a kid gets a shake
And I'll find you've been creeping and I'm feeling okay.
Original Lyrics:
Sundown, ya better take care
If I find you been creepin' round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sometimes you better take care
If I find you've been creeping on a love that's fair.
Original Lyrics:
Sundown you better take care
If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sometimes, you better make chair.
Original Lyrics:
Sundown, you better take care.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creepin' up half past ten.
Original Lyrics:
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you creeping 'round my back stairs.
"Sundown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sundown, you buried the kill
That I find you've been keeping and I'm not that still.
Original Lyrics:
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs.
"The List"
Misheard Lyrics:
Thick and thin
You throw the potato in the candlelight.
Original Lyrics:
Thick and thin
You don't have to play to win
But then you might.
"The Pony Man"
Misheard Lyrics:
When it's midnight on the meadow
And the cats are in the s***
Original Lyrics:
When it's midnight on the meadow
And the cats are in the shed
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
I reckon it's Ella Fitzgerald.
Original Lyrics:
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
When summertime came, the old Pokemon deck.
Original Lyrics:
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck.
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
With whirlings and turns and a couple steel burns
Original Lyrics:
Concluding some terms with a couple steel firms
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
I reckon it's Ella Fitzgerald.
Original Lyrics:
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the peg-leg they called 'Gitche Gumee.'
Original Lyrics:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee.'
"Too Many Clues In This Room"
Misheard Lyrics:
All around the looking glass, dancing to The Cure
Sweeping out the house with a fine-toothed comb.
Original Lyrics:
All around the looking glass, dancing to a tune
Sweeping out the house with a fine-toothed comb.
"Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
The legend goes on 'cause some chicks passed it down
To the people they call b****s and gloomies.
Original Lyrics:
The legend lives on, from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitchigumi.
"Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Misheard Lyrics:
When the girls of November came early.
Original Lyrics:
When the gales of November came early.

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Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com

Gord's Gold album at Amazon.com

Harmony album at Amazon.com

United Artists Collection [2 CD Set] album at Amazon.com

Summertime Dream album at Amazon.com

Sundown album at Amazon.com

If You Could Read My Mind album at Amazon.com

Don Quixote album at Amazon.com

Salute album at Amazon.com

Dream Street Rose album at Amazon.com
 
 
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