The first time I heard Nelly Furtado's magnum opus, "Like A Bird," I heard the following:

I am like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is
I don't roll with my homies"

Rather than whatever it is she's actually saying. That improved upon the crap to a laughable degree.

a drunken evening last night with a mate helped us remember this one.

cliff richard "its so funny"

becomes either "DISCO BUNNY how we dont talk anymore"

or "tits and fanny"

sorry.

the office favourite has to be instead of i can see clearly now the rain has gone.

becomes i can see deirdre now lorraine has gone.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:
In a similar vein, we used to sing this amended chorus to Dobie Gray's "Drift Away":

Give me the beat, boys, and fill my soul
I wanna get lost in your hairy hole
And drift away...

We did a similar revision, just slightly different:

Beat at my meat, boys, and fill my hole
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll
and drift away

Apparently I substitute words in this fashion more than I'd thought. There's that one RHCP song that gets played on the radio every so often and contains the line, "My friends are so distressed." I like to think of it as, "My friends all sewed this dress."

Similarly, their one Big Sensitive Ballad, the "city of angels" one, whatever it's called, works very well with the "A mountain is something you don't want to fuck with" lyrics from "Billy the Mountain" laid over top.

One favorite is an alteration of the insipid Air Supply. I think the original tune is "Lost in Love." I like to hear the bridge this way:

You know you can't fool me
We've been stranded here too long
We've run out of provisions;
do you want some carrion? (CARRIOOOOOOOON!)

George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set On You" quickly became "Lie Down While I Step On You," with other key lyrics changed.

Oh, and there are more. Plenty more.

i like to pretend frank black sings:

"on a wave of mute elation" instead of "on a wave of mutilation"

i also like to pretend kim deal is singing

"gigantic, gigantic, our big, big glove"

and i like the chorus of the nirvana song "stain" better as

"dave mustaine!"

I was thinking of this earlier while half-assedly browsing the Billy Corgan thread. Sometime back when it was still inescapable on MTV, I heard someone convert the absurd:

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."

To:

"Despite all my rage, I am still making minimum wage."

And I laughed. Swept away for a moment by chance. And I laughed and laughed and laughed.

Dan

there it is what took us so long

is always changed into hairy ears.

a) an old roommate of mine once told me that all songs using personal pronouns become hilarious when you switch them. Try it with the chorus of "Closer" and see if I'm not right.

b) somehow, with the same roommate:
oops, I did it again
I stepped on your dog
I drank all your gin
Ooh baby baby
(line forgotten)
I had to suck co-ooo-ooock
cos I'm NOT! THAT! TALENTED!

that one Nelly song where he's all " HEY MUST BE THE MON-AY!"

I always thought it was " HEY FUCK YOU BUDDAY!"