When you finally find out the true meaning of a song after singing it incorrectly for years it can be quite satisfying, although you may feel a bit foolish".Ībba's Dancing Queen features twice in the top 20, with people mistaking "Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine" for "Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tangerine". Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze also sparked confusion in second place, with the line "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" confused for "excuse me while I kiss this guy".Īerosmith's "Dude looks like a lady" from the song of the same name came third, with the lyric confused for "Do just like a lady" while, in fourth place, The Foundations' "Build me up buttercup" from the song with the same title gets mistaken for "Fill me up buttercup".Ī spokesman for Cerumol Olive Oil Ear Drops, which carried out the survey of 3,000 people, said: "Some of the misheard lyrics in this poll are really quite amusing.
“Yeah, but your cruise boyfriend hasn’t rubbed your body down with oils,” I said.REM track The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite contains the most misheard lyrics, according to a poll.Ī survey, published in The Daily Telegraph, discovered that four out of 10 people admitted mistaking the line "Call me when you try to wake her" for "Calling Jamaica". Incidentally, when we first discovered Paul O’Shea, after a day of me pining over Aihnoa, Alex declared, “Well, it looks like now I have a cruise boyfriend to match your cruise girlfriend.” It made for a tense two-and-a-half minutes each time this song came up on the tracklist.Īnd that’s a tension that could only be assuaged by the prettiest Spanish masseuse on the high seas. This is a song that has several ‘hey hey heys’ and ‘ooo ooooos’ and ‘bah-dah-dahs’ and I was wholly unprepared to deliver any of them, even when prompted. Such was the case with The Foundations’ ‘Build Me Up Buttercup,’ a song that sounds incredibly familiar in the way a lot of oldies do but one that was at the same time utterly foreign to me. Build Me Up Buttercup Lyrics by The Foundations from the The Evergreen Songbook album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Why. Build Me Up Buttercup (Cover) Lyrics: Why do you fill me up, Buttercup, baby / Just to let me down, and mess me around / And worst of all you never come, baby / When you say you will, I love you. The groups background was West Indian, White British, and Sri Lankan. Intro : C E F G C E7 F G Chorus : C E7 Why do you build me up -build me up- Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down -let me down- and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all -worst of all- you never call, baby F G When you say you will -say you will- but I love you still C C7 I need you -I need you- more than anyone, darlin F Fm You know. One of the perils of the piano bar is getting caught singing along to a song you don’t really know. The Foundations were a British soul band (m. If not, please disregard the previous paragraph. Build Me Up Buttercup (DeelyghtTwist) by The Foundations Gospel Version - Karaoke Lyrics on Smule. I write these posts in advance, so I’m guessing that my wife, Alex, might have broken her Internet silence to comment on yesterday’s post and reveal that while, yes, she did have a crush on piano man Paul O’Shea, it paled in comparison to the crush I had on massage therapist Aihnoa Gallardo.
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