That is funny!:)
I loved the Harry Dupree by the way...makes me laugh.:)

Your a vegtable, your a vegtable
Still they hate you, your a vegtable
Your just a buffet, your a vegtable
They eat off of you, your a vegtable
Ma Ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa
Ma Ma se, Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa and again and again and again....the coolest part. Only Micheal could get away with the lyrics to this song...very strange, but love it!! I'm not ashamed to have been a huge fan back in the day. Love the post Laurie!

That is too funny! At this point I don't so much mishear lyrics as decide my own are much more enjoyable. Heaven help the people who have to listen to my creations though!

Gee, I never knew that the Village People sang back-up for Michael Jackson ;)

Um. If he's not saying "You're a vegetable" then what is he saying???

Oh, I'm slow....I didn't catch the last two lines of this post! Duh.

I loved Michael Jackson back in the day, too! Well, I didn't love HIM, I loved his songs. ;)

Heck, they just have to meet one of your zucchinis to understand the threat. Duh!

Wait... you mean I've been right this whole time?

There's a Justin Timberlake song where he actually sings "Girl I like your...braaaains." To me this makes anything in song lyrics possible.

Also, see here: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html on "The Joker."

Look at that cute perky little nose!

"Sam and Janet evening.........
You may meet a stranger............"

I still sing it that way even though I know better now.
.

Who knows how many song lyrics we have all messed up over the years. Are you ready for the premier of Deadliest Catch tonight?

Funny! I always thought it was "Your the best of all"!! It made no sense, but it was the 80's, what can you expect?

Ooops...that grammar mistake is killing me - "You're the best of all".

There. All better now.

I was a baton twirler when or just after a certain Cyndi Lauper song was a hit. As I twirled in a parade a sang at the top of my lungs, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Nachestnueva! Nachestnueva!" I owned the album, but I persisted, "Nachestnueva!" I didn't find out the actual lyrics for more than a decade.

So what kind of vegetable is Michael himself?? A sugar snap pea or a giant ear of corn? Here's hoping that no one here ever finds out for themselves! (or their sons!!!) (HORRORS)

So, Laurie. What kind of vegetable are you?? I'm shaped like a giant acorn squash!

I don't know this song, and can't listen as I'm at work, but now I'll have this going through my head for the rest of the day:

It is I, Captain Vegetable,
With my carrots and my cel-e-ree,
Eating crunchy vegetables is good for me
And they're good for you, so eat them too
For teeth so strong, your whole life long
Eat celery and carrots by the bunch
Three cheers for me, Captain Vegetable
Crunch, crunch, crunch!

And I want you to know how much I appreciate it.

Hmm, maybe the Veggie Tale folks should do this song. Then again, maybe not.

I had that poster of Michael wearing his fuzzy yellow sweater vest! He was SO cute. *sigh* And SO talented. No one could sing or dance like that man.

My favorite Thriller song was "Pretty Young Thing," but "Wanna Be Startin Something" was pretty good!

Every time I hear that song, I now hear Harry Dupree. Thanks :)

And I gave up on trying to understand Michael many, many years ago.

I can't believe he was actually calling people vegetables! That's hilarious!

no way!

It's not that I didn't BELIEVE you about the lyrics, I just needed to check it myself. And whaddaya know--you're a vegetable!

Kat: the "brains" that the fab JT is refering to doesn't mean what you proibably think it means...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brain

Kids these days, with their crazy euphemisms ;-)

I didn't believe you. So I looked them up myself. Sure enough. I mean, it's not that I distrust you on some sort of fundamental level, I just thought you were being sarcastic or something.

you need to be careful if you are sitting out on your patio singing that - I have a horrible feeling the zucchini will just take it as a challenge!

I can't tell you how awesome I think that is. You're a vegetable? I wonder just what the heck he was trying to say with that...?

Back when "Beat It" came out, I had a friend who honestly thought that Michael Jackson was singing:

"Beat it, beat it
No one wants to be a fetus!"

She thought he was making some sort of political abortion statement, but she just couldn't figure out what side of the arguement he was on. To this day, I still prefer her misheard lyric to the real one!

What a trip! I was JUST listening to that song, and I thought of you because I caught the "vegetable" lyric, so I thought of that Harry Dupree post. When I popped online to see today's post...imagine my open mouthed surprise to see that you HAD ANSWERED MY QUESTION WITHOUT ME ASKING. Spooooky.

just try not singing that now every time you garden!!

the Gods-of-Language-and-Healthy-Foods are smiling upon us!

Also, have you noticed that PURL has the PURrrr of cats in it?
It's the gods of language telling us that cats, yarn and happy knitting go together very well. As if we didn't know...

Sorry to go off topic, but I thought this cat tower would go well with the mid-century curves of your new coffee table:
http://www.therefinedfeline.com/lotus-cat-furniture.htm

A "vegetable"? Really?

Lordy, he was weird even back then.

Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma co sa darlin'- I hear you and proudly sing the wrong words my own self... although in this case they were right! (Now, did Prince really "Slip on a purple banana till' they put us in a truck?"

After watching the clip, I have three questions:
1. Why do I suddenly want to see Cameo with his red codpiece?
2. Is this what the Pips would look like if Gladys Knight had formed in the 80s?
3. And, most importantly, which one was Tito?

I still remember thinking that "Little Red Corvette" was "Lydia, rent come back" Not that that makes one freaking bit of sense. Of course years later I drove a little red *chevette* and sang that instead.

Gotta love music!

What's the difference between Bananaman and Superman? One's a fruit, one's a vegetable.

*ducks bullets*

Sorry.

Wanna Be Startin Somethin Lyrics

You are right, that is exactly what he is saying. I wonder what I thought he was saying all those years ago...but it certainly wasn't that!

Okay, so he looked cute in his fuzzy yellow sweater vest. But WHAT is up with the bizarre yellow leotard/thong combo unit that he's wearing in that second video???

Wow. That's just ... weird!

The thong thing sure looks like a fencing lame (sorry, don't know how to add the accent here for the French word, pronounce it la-may). That struck me immediately - but the ones we wore back when I was a fencer were white canvas with silver metallicized fabric - to allow electronic scoring.

also, CSI Las Vegas: I kept wondering "Who is Molly?"
Who? Who?
I really wanna know....
Ooh, Molly! Whoo! Whoo!

"Scuse me while I kiss this guy" by Jimi Hendrix is my fav, but I gotta say this is my new close 2nd!

Hilarious! I think I already told you about thinking Abba was saying "and the pangolin" in their song Chiquitita. But did I tell you how I swear Queen says "I'm Adopted!" in Another One Bites the Dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q
It's in this video at about 1:58

Lyrics are so funny!

Okay the year 1987 the song by U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky

The lyrics as my friend sang~
When a man breeds with his sex organ
and through the walls you her Cindy groan

The lyrics are~
As a man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls you hear the city groan

Since I never sang 'vegetable' in that song, I wonder what in the world I WAS singing.

Now that I know it's vegetable, I'll never be able to figure it out.

Hey! I saw your book at my library! It's all the way on Lake Street in Minneapolis.

You may be too young to remember this, but in the late 70's Loggins and Messina (who?) had a song whose lyrics went,

"Sweet love showing me a heavenly light..."

A friend of mine heard, "Sweet watermelon on a Saturday night..."

I guess she was hungry.

Excellent! Thanks for the 80's memories! I remember thinking Van Halen's the chorus of their song "Panama" was "Marilyn Monroe". Wow.

I'm a first time reader after my Google Reader suggested your blog to me. Just earlier today my friends and I heard this song in the car and were talking about how it sounded like "You're a vegetable," and how we couldn't figure out what he was saying. Then I get home and see this. Anyway, great timing, and I hope that "you're a vegetable" is the true lyric.

I always thought he was saying "you're a basketball." Somehow that went with the too high to get over, too low to get under. Yay lyrics!

Similar to your recently look-up, in college I was certain that lil me had gotten it wrong in another Michael song. Lo and behold, he really does break it down and say mama-say-mama-saw-moo-mock-eww-saw. That makes even less sense than saying you're a vegetable!

In addition to the vegetarian name calling, doesn't he also say "you're a loaf of bread"? Is that true? Somebody should've fed the poor fella...

Hysterical!!! I can't believe I was singing that right all those years ago!!!! Holy cow.

One of my friends in college thought in the Garth Brooks remake of the Billy Joel song "Shameless", Garth was singing "I'm SHAVIN', when it comes to lovin you.....oooh, I'm SHAVIN'!" Must have been one hot date!

Calling someone a vegetable is a threat because he's a vegetarian. I guess that was supposed to be scary.
Anyway, my confession is that I was about 11 when Flashdance came out - and Irene Cara sang the theme song - and I sang
Take your pants off
and make it happen
(honestly, i thought it referred to her taking that welding suit off and starting to dance) (I was rather immature, even for 11)
and Liz R - thanks for Captain Vegetable.

PeaKnitty, your note goes along with something I always thought Michael was saying in "Bad" - that "jam on" thing he says throughout, I always wondered if he was maybe saying "jamon" with an h-sound instead of j, which is Spanish for "ham". I told this to my boyfriend's brother and he shrugged and said, "Okay, so he was just hungry, he wanted a sandwich."

My sister used to belt out 'Living in the Material World' our entire childhood... I didn't tell her til she was in her 20's that the lyrics were NOT 'Spirits in my Cheerios!'

GAHHHAHAHA. That's so funny. About a year ago I had a few days where I suddenly had to listen to the "Old" Michael Jackson non-stop. Of course this song was on the play list and laughed so hard when I realized he was saying "Your a vegetable". Not only that! "They HATE YOU, cause you're a VEGETABLE".

Seriously. It's obvious that Michael never got to watch Veggie Tales. Or maybe someone forced a cucumber...oh never mind!

I'm totally adding you to my blogroll, girl. Hilarious.

I used to be the biggest MJ fan when I was little, could do the dances and everything. I always thought he was saying vegetable and it's good to know I was right :) It made sense to me because when I was growing up if a kid called you a vegetable, it meant you were stupid and did nothing, just sat around vegetating...being well...like a vegetable. Big insult lol.

Hubby's classic from Sheryl Crows "Every Day is a Winding Road":

...I've been living on Coffee and Poutine.....

She is in Montreal, Canada then???

Or Madonna:

...Chocolate covered island trees, all the natures wild and free, this is where I lone to be, Makiswa Bonita.

Good times. I needed a tear jerking laugh:)

I am working very hard to stifle my laughter at all these misheard lyrics, since I'm at work and should not make a spectacle of myself here in the cube farm.

This site (http://www.kissthisguy.com)is a fabulous repository of misheard/missung song lyrics.

Country/pop crooner Phil Vassar has a new song out about love and weddings (his forte) and one line cracks me up b/c I swear he sings "tie the kids to the back of that limosine". Of course it's "cans" not "kids" but still...heehee..my kids swear that I keep bungee cords in the back of my truck solely so that I can threaten to fasten them to the roof rack if they don't behave/knock it off/stop bothering (touching, teasing, looking at, breathing on, talking to...) their sibling or changing the radio to a rap station, etc. Road trip anyone?

When I bought my copy of Thriller 25 earlier this year, I had to pull over whilst driving and actually check the lyrics to see if I really was hearing him call someone a vegetable and a a buffet. That's when I discovered that what I had always sung as "Oh the same, on the sound, on the Macoosa" (with me thinking it was some exotic resort) was really ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma co sa".

You must check this out... but I must warn you it's a huge time suck. http://www.kissthisguy.com/

That ok, Laurie. My husband was convinced that at one point during his song, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" that he actually was saying:

Go down to the porn shop. don't stop 'til you get it up.

this is just too funny....i always thought that he was saying "You're a vegetable" because come on, that's just what is sounds like....but it just didn't make any sense :) That's great!

this is just too funny....i always thought that he was saying "You're a vegetable" because come on, that's just what is sounds like....but it just didn't make any sense :) That's great!

"Wrapped up like a duche, another rubber in the night..."

No freakin way! I can't believe those are ACTUALLY the words! I feel so smart for the moment...

Unbelievable!!!! I always sang "you're a vegetable", but I never thought I was right!!! OMG. I was a fan back in the day as well. When he was normal.

in the were about I confessed into the yard, by year. Forest. I went competing to it that day. turtles up to were having

What is the "Mama say, mama sah, me ma koosa" part anyway? My sister and I used to sing "Gonna sway to the sound of Michael's song" or "mama say, mama sah, muh-mongoose sah...". We could never figure that out!

CRYING with laughter.

I always thought the last line here

"Your a vegetable, your a vegetable
Still they hate you, your a vegetable
Your just a buffet, your a vegetable
They eat off of you, your a vegetable"

was "Something wrong with you ..."

because of course something would HAVE to be wrong with anyone who wasn't a Jacksons fan.

Quick! What album was the song "Man of War" from?!? :D

"Eat it, eat it ..
If it's gettin' cold reheat it
Have a big dinner, have a light snack
If you don't like it you can't send it back
Just EAT IT!"

*goes off into another gale of laughter*

Glad you got back to this topic. Makes you appreciate Weird Al Yankovic - his lyrics are _deliberately_ bizarre, and his diction is pretty good.

Anyway, I was thought that "Blinded By the Light" was "Dressed up like a douche, Another rumor in the night". Made sense to me - I figured the guy was in some weird, pretentious outfit.

Love ya, boomette.

In the back of my mom's car we always sang
"Wrapped up like a douche (!)
Another roller in the fight"

To rhyme it, one of my favorites of one of these stories was that the lead singer of the J. Geils Band actually SANG at one concert,

"There's a bathroom on the right."