Fantine
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Les Mis MisheardAgain? Yes.
I'm planning on creating a video for youtube that has all the misheard lyrics in it. And it's still funny to discuss them or share them!
These are the ones I got so far (based on your contributions several years earlier):
Heard: A tart full of love
Actual lyric: A heart full of love
Heard: A fart full of love...
Actual lyric: A heart full of love
Heard: And meet the best and keep her in town
Actual lyric: And meet the best innkeeper in town.
Heard: The pavement shines and slivers
Actual Lyric: The pavement shines like silver
Heard: This rain will wash away what's bad
Actual lyric: This rain will wash away what's past
Heard: hush up high, dear Eponine
Actual lyric: Hush a bye, dear Eponine
Heard: I know a place where no one snores
Actual lyric: I know a place where no ones lost
Heard: My name is Marius oh merci!
Actual lyric: My name is Marius Pontmercy.
Heard: Do you think Cosette would marry us all?
Actual lyric: Would you weep Cosette, should Marius fall?
Heard: He's got a gang of bleedin' labour
Actual lyric: He's got a gang, the bleedin' layabout
Heard: Nip it in the butt
Actual lyric: Nip it in the bud
Heard: I am Marius, pour merci
Actual lyric: My name is Marius Pontmercy
Heard: God on Rye
Actual lyric: God on high
Heard: God I�m high
Actual lyric: God on high
Heard: Will you give all you can give so that our phantom may advance
Actual lyric: Will you give all you can give so that our banner may advance
Heard: How past the minutes fly away and every minute colder
Actual lyric: How fast the minutes fly away and every minute colder
Heard: Everybody's bottom friend
Actual lyric: Everybody�s bosom friend
Heard: He's got a gang, "the bleedin' layabouts"
Actual lyric: He's got a gang, the bleedin' layabout
Heard: That's Eponine, she knows her way about. Only a kid, but not all there
Actual lyric: That's Eponine, she knows her way about. Only a kid but hard to scare
Heard: This sinful serf who bears my face
Actual Lyric: This innocent who bears my face
Heard: Take a knife for an eye
Actual lyric: Take an eye for an eye
Heard: I can�t help myself
Actual lyric: Like our own monsieur
Heard: Not that we�d be grudged a sue
Actual lyric: Not that we�d be grudged a sous
Heard: Here in the crumbs, inside my shell
Actual lyric: Here in the slums of Saint Michel
Heard: She used to be no better until the cock got to her brain
Actual lyric: She used to be no better until the clap got to her brain
Heard: It�s better than an au pair uh!
Actual lyric: It�s better than an opera
Heard: And I saw through a world that is new that is free
Actual lyric: And I soar through a world that is new that is free
Heard: The son must die, one by one
Actual lyric: The summers die, one by one
Heard: And so Javert you see it's true, that man's just as guilty as you
Actual lyric: And so Javert you see it's true, this man bears no more guilt than you
Heard: What luck you've got! It's worth something, my dear
Actual lyric: What luck you�ve got! It�s worth a centime, my dear
Heard: I was lost, in your smell
Actual lyric: I was lost, in your spell
Heard: This sin oh scent who bears my face
Actual lyric: This innocent who bears my face
Heard: The blood of the murderers will water the meadows of France
Actual lyric: The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France
Heard: I was born with skin like you, I will not be gutted too
Actual lyric: I was born with scum like you, I am from the gutter too
Do you wish to add anything?
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Mistress
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 I love the God on rye/God I'm high...makes me laugh every time.
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Bianco
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My personal best:
Heard: Here among the souvenirs, a breath away from hell
Actual Lyric: Here among the sewer rats, a breath away from hell
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Ulla Dance Again!
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These are mine (the second one is horrible, my apologies!):
Heard: Weekend cheapies underneath the pier.
Actual: Quick and cheap is underneath the pier.
Heard: Costs a little extra if you want it in the rear.
Actual: Costs a little extra if you want to take all year.
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Fantine
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| Ulla Dance Again! wrote: | These are mine (the second one is horrible, my apologies!):
Heard: Weekend cheapies underneath the pier.
Actual: Quick and cheap is underneath the pier.
Heard: Costs a little extra if you want it in the rear.
Actual: Costs a little extra if you want to take all year. |
That one is so understandable though... I kinda knew that it wasn't the right lyric, but I thought it was actually, until you brought it up just now. Psychological stuff.
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lesmisloony
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...I suddenly want to form a gang called "The Bleedin' Layabouts." That's just brilliant.
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kozafluitmusique
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I see one or two that i have misheard before 
I'll just have to listen to Les Miserables again, although I just watched it.
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Proud Dork
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From my first interpretation of ALFOR:
Heard: "A little for the brain..."
Actual: "A little fall of rain..."
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Orestes Fasting
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Heard: I need a laugh, I need a treat...
Actual: Ain't it a laugh, ain't it a treat?
To be fair, listening to Alun Armstrong on the TAC, there's really no way to tell the difference.
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jackissensational
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| Mistress wrote: | | I love the God on rye/God I'm high...makes me laugh every time. |
TOTES. I lol'ed.
And, Ulla, yours were hilarious!
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What you own
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I still hear
We will rip it in the but. I will join these little school boys they will wet them self with what?
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Moci
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Heard: Then I'll retard, I pledge my word, then I'll retire.
Actual: Then I'll return, I pledge my word, then I'll return.
Got this one from a friend who grew up watching the TAC. In fairness, what Colm is saying doesn't sound like 'return'.
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Proud Dork
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I just dug up a journal from long ago and found some notable phrases from my first interpretation of One Day More:
Heard: The time is now, the place is here
Actual: The time is now, the day is here
(That one isn't really that bad, but I do think it sounds a bit like a birthday party invitation when I look back on it)
Heard: We will whip it in the butt
Actual: We will nip it in the bud
Heard: They will wet themselves with pride
Actual: They will wet themselves with blood
Heard: Must have called their mothers if they want this much
Actual: Most of them are goners, so they won't miss much
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lesmisloony
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If you're listening to the OBC, there's the infamous
They will wet themselves... BLAAAAHHH.
Which is never not funny.
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kozafluitmusique
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| Proud Dork wrote: | I just dug up a journal from long ago and found some notable phrases from my first interpretation of One Day More:
Heard: The time is now, the place is here
Actual: The time is now, the day is here
(That one isn't really that bad, but I do think it sounds a bit like a birthday party invitation when I look back on it)
Heard: We will whip it in the butt
Actual: We will nip it in the bud
Heard: They will wet themselves with pride
Actual: They will wet themselves with blood
Heard: Must have called their mothers if they want this much
Actual: Most of them are goners, so they won't miss much |
I've misheard these two as well:
Heard: The time is now, the place is here
Actual: The time is now, the day is here
(That one isn't really that bad, but I do think it sounds a bit like a birthday party invitation when I look back on it)
Heard: We will whip it in the butt
Actual: We will nip it in the bud
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Catherine
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I swear I used to think it was
Another brawl in the square, another snake in the air.
Instead of
Another brawl in the square, another stink in the air.
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What you own
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| What you own wrote: | I still hear
We will rip it in the but. I will join these little school boys they will wet them self with what? |
I never added when I first heard the song. And I heard this line I thought.... Lets see convicts, Hookers, child abusers, robbers and now pedofiles! I have such a sick little mind.
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Fantine
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| Moci wrote: | Heard: Then I'll retard, I pledge my word, then I'll retire.
Actual: Then I'll return, I pledge my word, then I'll return.
Got this one from a friend who grew up watching the TAC. In fairness, what Colm is saying doesn't sound like 'return'. |
I always thought it was "retire" too. Colm has some really funny pronouncations (sp?). As for "return", I simply couldn't place that one. (Being a Dutch nine year old kinda makes up for my mishearings, right?  )
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kozafluitmusique
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| Fantine wrote: | | Moci wrote: | Heard: Then I'll retard, I pledge my word, then I'll retire.
Actual: Then I'll return, I pledge my word, then I'll return.
Got this one from a friend who grew up watching the TAC. In fairness, what Colm is saying doesn't sound like 'return'. |
I always thought it was "retire" too. Colm has some really funny pronouncations (sp?). As for "return", I simply couldn't place that one. (Being a Dutch nine year old kinda makes up for my mishearings, right? ) |
It's fine Fantine 
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Mistress
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I think we can safely blame it on Com's Irish accent...and the whole Sean Connery sound he seems to have...
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Barberous
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Actual: You know nothing of Javert / I was born inside a jail
Heard: You know nothing of Javert / I was born inside a chair
...
At least my way rhymes.
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Oli-Ol
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!Heard: No! Bring me prisoner 24601
Actual: Now bring me prisoner 24601
Heard: Yes, it means I'm cheese
Actual: Yes, it means I'm free
Heard: And I'm O'Savvey
Actual: And I'm Javert
Heard: I have nought your soul for good
Actual: I have bought your soul for God
Heard: I have bought your soul for food
Actual: I have bought your soul for God
And I'm not even halfway through yet! I am so bad at hearing lyrics...
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What you own
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Re: ! | Oli-Ol wrote: | Heard: No! Bring me prisoner 24601
Actual: Now bring me prisoner 24601
Heard: Yes, it means I'm cheese
Actual: Yes, it means I'm free
Heard: And I'm O'Savvey
Actual: And I'm Javert
Heard: I have nought your soul for good
Actual: I have bought your soul for God
Heard: I have bought your soul for food
Actual: I have bought your soul for God
And I'm not even halfway through yet! I am so bad at hearing lyrics... |
Haha!! I love the Yes it means I'm cheese! Hmm if Valjean was a cheese what kinda cheese would he be?
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Mistress
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Maybe he'd be Yarlsburg...or just plain chedder perhaps?...and apparantly Javert's real name is O'Savvey?
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lesmisloony
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...he's be a DO-GOUDA!
*rimshot*
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MariekeLovesEnjolras
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Heard: You must sack the girl to death
Actual: You must sack the girl today
I was already wondering how you could sack someone to death .... 
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Vanessa20
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| MariekeLovesEnjolras wrote: | | I was already wondering how you could sack someone to death .... |
Well, in the original Italian short story that inspired Shakespeare's "Othello," Desdemona is murdered by being beaten to death with a bag of sand. (I assume Shakespeare changed the method to strangling for the sake of easier staging.) That's one way you could "sack" someone to death, I suppose.
Not that it has anything to do with Les Mis.
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Fantine
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Eppie-Sue
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(whooo first post!)
I must agree on the "Then I'll retire..." line and not just while listening to Colm, but also when Jonathan Williams (current, wonderful u/s in London) sang it, so I kind of felt vindicated.
The ones that have already been mentioned are "I need a laugh, I need a treat" and "The sons must die, one by one"...
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Barberous
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Actual: She used to be no better 'til the clap got to her brain
Heard: She used to be no better 'til a club got to her brain
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High-baritonne
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Actual: She used to be no better 'til the clap got to her brain
Heard: She used to be no better 'til a cock got to ther brain
I've never been able to hear the clap, still when I listen I hear "a cock".
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curlyhairedsoprano91
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^ LOL!!
Actual: They will come when we call!
Heard: They will come, and we're God!
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Fantine
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| High-baritonne wrote: | Actual: She used to be no better 'til the clap got to her brain
Heard: She used to be no better 'til a cock got to ther brain
I've never been able to hear the clap, still when I listen I hear "a cock". |
That's what I always heard too. I'm dirty minded.
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