Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 17, 2021

Today’s strip is brought to you by the word mondegreen. Mondegreens: because what you thought they sang is better than what they actually sang.

Mr Tangerine Man is a real song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEiKglniEc

Don’t start singing “Ina Goddadavida….”……

That would be ecstasy: you and me and Leslie.

“There’s a baboon on the ride…”

A serious responsibility. Like, I finally paid close attention to this old Genesis song and realized I had no idea what this one word was. Undinal.

Mondegreen.

With Google, everybody can be a Junior Lyrics cadet.

Well, Excue me while I kiss this guy!

She was singing about the previous pResident

The lines they are a-changin’

At least she didn’t sing the infamous misheard lyric from “Blinded By The Light.”

“Big old Chet left a light on”.

I hope she doesn’t start singing “Louie Louie”.

Come on, hit me with your plush shark…

I always wondered why there were a couple of “stale ferns” on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

“I’m not sleepy and there orange no place I’m goin’ to….”

At least they’re not the dream police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRRqxJHQmA

There’s a bathroom on the right . . . . .

" … and Lady Mondegreen".

“On a dark desert highway, cool whip in my hair” ~The Eagles

Or if it’s William Shatner singing it:

“Hey!

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Mr. Tambourine man!

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MR, TAMBOURINE MAN!!!! "

Oh great the “thought police” has an offshoot division for music now

(warbling off key) “747 fallin’ out of the sky. Let me take you off on a miiiiiiiidnight ride…” Thank you. And now my encore; a Beatles standard I’m sure you’ll love! “Paaaaay for my Chrysler…” The sad part is I was a DJ in college at the time.

When my son was very little, I used to play “Yellow Submarine” for him. Once as a joke I changed it to “purple tangerine”. He got absolutely livid and snapped “Sing it right!”

’scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Put me in toast, I’m ready to bake…Cheesecake.

Michelle, it’s swell, watching monkeys playing Donky Kong, Do-o-nky Kong.

HAHA!! This one makes me laugh because it is SO ME!!! :D My kids/siblings always make fun of me. Also, my husband is from Switzerland, so English is his second language and sometimes he can’t understand the lyrics. Our favorite is when he thought the song, “Replay” said, “…like my eyeball stuck on a plate” rather than, “… like my ipod stuck on replay”. HAHA!! We still sing the song that way!!

The Lady Mondagreen Patrol!

“Blinded by the Light,

………up like a ……

in the ….. of the night"

thank you Manfred Mann for whatever the hell you’re saying

And then, there’s even more confusion because of made-up words, like “pompatus”… ☺

Tangerines do not go jingle, jangle, jingle. Unless you’re already totally stoned, in which case the whole song is superfluous.

No one’s ever figured out what Steve Miller was singing in “The Joker” when he “speaks of the pompitous of love.”

Listen while I plaaaaaaaay my green tangerine – (just another ‘tangerine’ song from the era)

Therrrrrre’s a Bathroom on the Right!

Louie Louie.

IIRC there is a song about Tangerine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JDUnZv1N0

My son actually thought that the one song was, "Everybody plays the flute, some time. And the famous John Denver song, Sunshine on my hallways makes me cry!

Gopher Tuna! Bring more Tuna. Statue of big dog with fleas. Some men like cheese. Hot, temperate cheese. Green chalk can taste like hippies. …

I had trouble with The Israelites by Desmond Dekker & the Aces. Thought it sounded like “get up every morning sleeping for breakfast.” Apparently it’s “get up every morning, slaving for bread, sir.”

Fortunately, they weren’t Police Lyrics!

Looks like Tomatoes! – RIP Barry Manilow

“Would you like some of my tangerine?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYsl__loTw

Orange you glad that this song was written? It has great a-peel (although some think it’s seedy).

In professional fields, this is called Chronic Lyricosis

I’m impressed that the kids know Bob Dylan songs so well.

Lady Mondegreen, I see.

“Hey mr. tambourine man, play a song for me” – what, on a tambourine?!

We all know that the Tangerine Man lost that nickname when he was im-Peached.

Twice.

And here I thought it was just ME!

oh, bite me