Mistaken Lyrics

shaatra: Di darfst lernen ah bissel yiddish.

shaatra- LOLOL!!

You know, of course, of the three cowboy names that are hidden in the lyrics of Adon Olam?

(old joke from Hebrew School)

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Billy Rasheet

Billy Tachlit

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Kid Ruchi.

BS”D

LOLOLOL Shaatra!!! Actually MBD’s Yiddish on that song is very easy to understand and I understood those lyrics back when it came out and I had almost no knowledge of Yiddish. What do you hear when you listen to Lipa, or is it so alien to you that you don’t find it entertaining? For a short time I had an online Jewish radio broadcast, and I got so many comments about the “Sefardi” tracks I played, both for and against, that I set up a separate stream for the heavier songs (Yechiel Nahari, David Shiro, Meir Levy etc) and kept the more mainstream pop tracks in the general mix.

I was listening to the Creedmoor Cretin Constellation Choir sing Just One Shabbos and the words sounded like:

“In the mikve, one summer morn, last time I was there, he sat with an Armani suit and a wire in his hair. He sang a brand new song, got others to join along, and now he’ll go free while they sit so long! Just one moiser and we’ll all go down…..”

BS”D

I know what you mean if you mean Lipa’s Hebrew. At first I thought the lyrics to Sheli Sheluch were:

Arba, arba, arba misois leByse Din

Nor ayner far chilil Shabbos

In velcher far chilil Shabbos?

Der shteyn, der shteyn, der shteyn, der shteyn..

(There are four methods of execution, and only one is for chilul Shabbos. Which one is for chilul Shabbos? The stone, the stone, the stone, the stone – a reference to skila).

and I wondered what that had to do with sheli sheluch. Then I looked at the lyrics and realized he was singing Arba Midois beOdom and not Arba Misois leByse Din….

Or are you confused by “haimishe” pronunciation of Hebrew coming from a Syrian background? When I first heard the Belz choir albums I was totally thrown off and really did need the lyrics from the album cover even though I knew most of the psukim they were singing by heart. I could understand how to you, even yeshivish or Chabad pronunciation might sound unusual, let alone Belz or Lipa.

I love to hear my son sing and get the words wrong!

One cute one: “Uri Uri, shir da BABY”

That one always cracks me up!

A friend told me that her family used to sing the “Nekama” song from Marvelous Middos Machine like this: “Lo lo lo lo – lo sikom, don’t pay back a band-aid with a band-aid of your own…”

80, its very interesting that you your question was on the song Shema, because as soon as I saw the title of the thread I thought of Shema.

I hear it all the time, many kids (and some adults too, of course) sing the high part like this: …when you feel pain, when you rejoice, NOONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE…

Anyone else ever hear that?

LAer do I know you?

da – kinda like “when you feel pain, when you feel joice” – my sister’s version

“Ana ana ana avada d’kedusha B’richo” becomes according to some kids version “Ana ana ana avocadoes grow in puerto rico” or the classic, “Ana ana ana, there’s a shark in the mikve”!!

Mazal

I thought it was I know I know I know avocados grow in puerto Rico ….

Ana Ana Ana …

To this day whenever I hear that song I see the avocados!

If as a kid you grow up singing birchas hamazon by heart and never used a siddur, you too will be stumped by the question, “at the end of the 3rd bracha we speak about the BNEI YERUSHALAYIM, who are these people”? MY entire 10th grade class was stumped by this question until one of us was smart enough to get a siddur.

Mazal77 – we also sing it “there’s a shark in the mikva”, except now it evolved to “there’s a mik in the sharkvah”. And when my father’s at the mikva and one of my siblings ask where he is, my mother says “he’s feeding the sharks.”

jphone, aren’t we all Bnei Yerushalayim? 😉

plonisalmonis, I like the “feeding the sharks” line.

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A cousin who is a 1st grade Rebbe related over Yom Tov that when teaching the boys the special greeting we say the 1st night of Rosh Hashana, Lshana Tova…… A boy raised his hand with a confused look and asked ” why only them?”. The Rebbe was just as confused by the question until the boy continued, why only a Shana Tova to Alter, Chaim, Toviah and Shalom, why not anyone else?

jphone, dunno why but you just reminded me of the relative who had to bring in something for show-and-tell and prepared something for the letter N which he forgot, so when his teacher asked him what he brought, he promptly replied, “nothing!”

*kapusta*

Miami Boys Choir,

I knew some(kids) who would botch the lyrics

singing .. you gotta know the Halacha that is Assur to daven

B’shas Hatefiloh! 🙂 Its Hysterical.

I know of several children who sang:

Dip the apple in the honey . . . shana tovah in the sukkah . . .

I was also at a friend’s house and her 2 1/2 year old daughter had just washed and made the bracha “al neti-wash your dayim.”

BS”D

And my version:

Who needs you? Who needs your tefila?

Better shut your mouth or I’ll give you skila!

Shut up, or daven – but MY tefila reaches Hashem!

How about

we need you we need your money

each and every cent it’s not even funny

don’t wait just donate

so (instituion name) can have their (object)

bein hasdorim- lol!

It goes like this:

Overnite a massive construction

etc…………………..

“a camp bus slurring in a cent soles”?

The correct way:

A campus lurring innocent souls

Chorus

Yerushalayim is NOT 4 sale

voices crying thundering throughout our city

you beta run 4 ur Life…. “back to you toe for nite?”

“b4 the mountain to powpins white to swallow you on site?”.

The correct way:

You better run for your life back to Utah overnight

before the mountain top opens wide to swallow you inside

postsemgirl, in my opinion those lyrics lend themselves to being mistaken, since the line, “before the mountain top opens wide to swallow you inside” seems to come out of nowhere. It doesn’t really fit with any incident in Jewish or Mormon history.

anon, What does Mormon history have to do with anything?

Joseph- The song is talking about the mormons.