Silent C.A.
My daughter came home from school today bubbling with enthusiasm over a song they played in gym class.
“It’s great! At the start, they keep shouting ‘Yo, man!’ over and over. And then in the main part of the song, you get to wave your arms and sing, ‘Silent C.A.’!”
Took a bit of figuring out… but we got it eventually. Here’s a hint:
Not quite worthy of the wonderful site KissThisGuy.com, “the archive of misheard lyrics,” but close.
(That site is where I learned I wasn’t the only one to hear the Bad Moon Rising line, “There’s a bathroom on the right” and Blinded by the Light’s “Wrapped up like a douche, another rumour in the night.”)
I should probably start a catalogue of song and band titles misheard by my wee ones.
Last year, they kept asking me to “sing that song that grampa sings, about the six strong bones.”
(He was rehearsing for a role in The Music Man, so eventually it twigged that the song in question was Seventy-Six Trombones.)
And once in Tim Horton’s, my youngest asked what song was playing over the speakers in the background.
I told them it was called Walk of Life, by Dire Straits, and they burst out laughing.
“Dire snakes? That’s silly, dad!”
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 02-27-2007 | 01:02 AM
Posted in: Kids
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Your stories about your kids make me want to have kids.
That’s the nicest compliment I have ever received.
Foolhardy, though - add that to the list of bad reasons to have children. (Top of my list came last week, where both kids pleaded for my wife and I to have a third child, so that they’d have someone to play the turtle when acting out scenes from Wonder Pets.