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Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton
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Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "All in the Family Theme"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We are all a sow red race.
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old laSalle ran great.
The Story: I was notoriously bad (good) at mishearing song lyrics, and often when I was a kid, I just made up words that fit the space. - Submitted by: Mark
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days (All in the Family Theme Song)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Boyd, the weaklin' miller, played.
Songs that made the hip hooray.
Guys laugh 'cause we haven't made.
Those were the days.
And you knew when you were dead.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister we could use a man like perfect room for our den.
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulls his weight.
G. R. O. la salred grate.
Those were the days!
Songs that made the hip hooray.
Guys laugh 'cause we haven't made.
Those were the days.
And you knew when you were dead.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister we could use a man like perfect room for our den.
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulls his weight.
G. R. O. la salred grate.
Those were the days!
The Real Lyrics:
Boy, the way Glen Miller played
Songs the made the Hit Parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
Didn't need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old La Salle ran great.
Songs the made the Hit Parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
Didn't need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old La Salle ran great.
The Story: I used to watch All in the Family as a kid. Had no notion of who Herbert Hoover was, or what Hit Parade was. I suppose my vocabulary was pretty limited! - Submitted by: Lance
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days (All in the Family Theme Song)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dear old the salad grate
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old La Salle ran great.
The Story: Neither I nor anyone else that I knew had any freakin' idea what this line was. It seemed to be something about a salad grate. Only today in 2012, 40 years after seeing the show, did I find out what the real line is. The whole thing is pretty hard to understand. Whenever I hear the line "girls were girls and men were men", I always think, "girls were girls and men women" - at least there it's possible to figure out the real lyrics, with a little thought. - Submitted by: ATBS
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days (All in the Family Theme Song)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Didn't need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Zero unemployment rate.
Everybody pulled his weight
Zero unemployment rate.
The Real Lyrics:
Didn't need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old La Salle ran great.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old La Salle ran great.
The Story: I think this is more about how I _remembered_ the lyrics years after the show ended. At the time the misheard line seemed to logically follow the two lines about welfare and working... - Submitted by: Treblemaker
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days (All in the Family Theme Song)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Gee, our all was sour & great
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great
The Story: Come on, wasn't this what we ALL heard when we were little?!! - Submitted by: Dan Cronan
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days (All in the Family Theme Song)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
These are all the sour grapes or Gee are all the salads great or G.R.O. the sal rat ray
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great
The Story: My family had some lengthy discussions about which one was correct. We agreed that the last one was most likely correct, except that it was complete nonsense. - Submitted by: Jim
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
G. R. Ola sal'rate rate
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old La Salle ran great
The Story: I had thought this line was saying something about salaries. - Submitted by: Jackie
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Who for our den
The Real Lyrics:
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
The Story: The show was on TV when I was a kid. - Submitted by: Sam H
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those Were the Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We all earned a salaried rate
The Real Lyrics:
Gee, our old La Salle ran great
The Story: For 40+ years, that's what I've thought the lyric was! I didn't know I was wrong until tonight, watching an episode on a classic TV channel, and the closed captions were turned on... 🤯 - Submitted by: BGunnells
Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton's, "Those were the Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We are all a sour grape
The Real Lyrics:
Gee our old Lasalle ran great
The Story: My older sister had me believing this. - Submitted by: George
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