Mistakes etc in liner notes/lyric sheets

What have you found that was left off, wrong, etc in liner notes or lyric sheets

On George Harrison’s “Awaiting on You All” the last indecipherable stanza was left off the lyric sheet. I thought it was something about nineteen seventy one until I looked it up on Google, Starts with “The pope owns 71% of General Motors...”

George Harrison – Awaiting on You All Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

 

I've noticed over the years that the printed lyrics within liner notes almost always have at least one error.

 

There were some glorious ones on a Korean pressing of the Church's Starfish. "Down falls the real one in some top hats", indeed. (Real line: "Out flows the river into darkness")

 

Pink Floyd The Wall

 

Japanese lyric sheet for Ramones it's Alive:

"C-U-F-E, everyone's accusing me!"

 

On the remastered ' Exile On Main Street ' from a few years back the accompanying
bare bones skimpy booklet has possibly the most inaccurate musician credits I' ve ever seen.
It's embarrassingly bad.

 

I remember noticing on the lyrics on my brothers copy of Nebraska by Springsteen,, one of my favourite lines, " I got debts no honest man can pay" from Atlantic City was printed wrong . Unfortunately the lyric insert is missing on my copy so can't confirm this.

 

On ' Plastic Ono Band ' , Lennon' s f-bombs on ' Working Class Hero ' on the lyric sheet are replaced by this ' edit' : " Deleted at the insistence of EMI "

 

We really should have a thread dedicated to poorly transcribed Japanese lyric sheets. Some of them are downright hilarious.

One that always sticks out at me is one line from Captain Beyond's first album as seen in the Japanese CD: "I'm so common on your grave". I had no idea what the line actually was until I saw a live performance which revealed it to be "I saw no color, only grey."

Close enough, right?

 

I was a dedicated reader of Hit Parader during the era (roughly late 1965 through 1967) when Jim Delahant was the editor and they morphed from a typical teen magazine of the era to the VERY FIRST in the U.S. to actually take rock music seriously — long before Rolling Stone or even Crawdaddy.

They continued to print song lyrics, though, and among the more amusing were those to the last verse of Moby Grape's "Hey Grandma."

They had it has:

A good mussin' make you feel so fine
A good mussin' with elderberry wine


When in fact, of course, it's

Robitussin make you feel so fine
Robitussin and elderberry wine


I guess they figured even the mag's advanced readers of the day couldn't handle the notion of cough syrup as a drug of choice!

 

A new season?

 

Suite Judy Blue Eyes (CSN debut album 1969)

‘Lacy lilting lyric’

I think on the album lyric sheet it was printed ‘Lacy lilting lady’

 

I have a Japanese CD pressing of Raspberries' fourth and final album Starting Over.

It includes lyrics that were quite obviously transcribed by someone who was not a native English speaker. Many are just beyond incredible.

I can't come up with any from memory, but will try to look later tonight and share some.

 

Happy XMas War is Over- Shaved Fish

On the lyric sheet:
Happy Christmas John
Happy Christmas Yoko

They were actually saying:
Happy Christmas Julian
Happy Christmas Kyoko

(although it is really hard to hear the difference)

 

Did they at least get the first line of ' Overnight Sensation ( Hit Record ) ' right?
Great song , great album.

 

My Abbey Road anniversary set has a silhouette of the famous street crossing photo, with the legend:
THE ABBEY ROAD.

 

Dylan’s More Blood More Tracks managed to somehow miss out two entire (and interesting) pages of the insert book.

they made them available as pdfs. Err thanks guys.

 

I think I remember the printed lyrics of Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean" being correct, but Plant sings them wrong on the recording!

 

I don't know if this qualifies but my entire life I thought that wherever I saw the lyrics to "Something" , there was an error; the first time I saw this was on the inner sleeve of the "blue" album back in 1973. The line in question ....I can swear he sings , "..you know I believe IN how..". Years later when I pointed this "mistake"out to a friend, he said that the printed lyrics, "you know I believe AND how" were correct. Decades later, whenever I hear the song, I'm still hearing "in".

 

The last verse of Uriah Heep's "Paradise/The Spell" is another case of a verse being left off the lyric sheet (probably intentionally). As is the "wash Uffizi" line from Phish's "You Enjoy Myself."

 

Springsteen used that line in two different songs on the album, "Atlantic City" and "Johnny 99." I think he revised the line in "Atlantic City" for the lyric sheet.

 

Chicago Transit Authority - 49th Anniversary Remix

 

The inner sleeve of the original UK version of Aladdin Sane inadvertently omitted half of the first line of Cracked Actor:

I've come on a few years from my Hollywood Highs
The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had



I didn’t know at the time, but the US version got it right:

 

Yes, Close to the Edge. The inner sleeve featured handwritten lyrics. A line ending in "...we don't understand" is shortly followed by one ending with "...we understood will be." The handwritten lyric at that point is "...we don't understood will be."

The lyrics included with Jon Anderson's 3 Ships Christmas album are also handwritten, with repeated misspellings of "choir" as "chior."

The lyric sleeves of the Beatles compilations 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 are swarming with mistakes, gradually corrected as new editions came out. I think they fixed them all in the booklets for the 2010 remastered CDs, but I haven't carefully checked for each one.

 

Nope! They have it as:

Well I know it sounds funny
But I'm not leavin' for the mornin' show


There are many more, but here's a favorite from "Play On" (admittedly, the real lyrics might be tough if you don't know them):

Get a break and find a place you can hide
'Cause tonight you've got to be a star personified


But here's how it came out on the Japanese release:

Get awakened from the place you get high
'Cause tonight you've got really so stop a sun in five