More misheard lyrics
18 May 2006
From Sheryl Crow’s Oh Marie.
Real lyrics:
She likes the way she looks in her Camaro
I heard:
She likes the way she looks can hook a marrow.
As in she was so good-looking that vegetables just flocked to her.
I remember playing that back again the first time I heard it to see what on Earth she was singing, and it wasn’t until I checked the CD liner (years later, what took me so long?) that I found out what the actual lyrics were. And it wasn’t until just now when I checked Google that I found out what a Camaro was. I had originally assumed it was some sort of poncho, but it turns out it’s a type of car.
Car/poncho — it’s easy to see how that assumption was worked out.