Play Me?
Posted in 1960s, Lyrics, Music, Trips at 12:00 on 9 August 2013
When we were in Cockermouth earlier this year we were in an antique/junk shop where a radio was playing.
I was wandering round looking at items for sale vaguely listening, though the sound was quite muffled. On came the song below. I knew the correct words but for some reason when it came to the, “I’ll be home,” line I heard the next one as, “I’ll be your xylophone, waiting for you.”
It does make a weird kind of sense, though; as most misheard lyrics do.
The Foundations: Build Me Up Buttercup
This is a not very good visual quality live version:-
Tags: Build Me Up Buttercup, Cockermouth, Misheard lyrics, mondegreens, The Foundations

Friday on my Mind 203: Baby Now That I’ve Found You – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
21 May 2021 at 12:00
[…] Their lead singer on the Top of the Pops appearance couldn’t quite reach the high note on ‘Baby’. (Yes; acts did used to sing live on TOTP sometimes.) He’d left by the time of Build Me Up Buttercup, now forever known to me as the xylophone song. […]