Late last night, Todd and I were lying in bed talking and the subject of baseball came up. I started singing the Alabama song, “The Cheap Seats,” and this is how the rest of the conversation went.
ME: (singing the lyrics to Cheap Seats)
We like our beer flat as can be,
We like our dogs with mustard and relish.
We got a great pitcher, What’s his name?
Well we can’t even spell it.
We don’t worry ’bout the planet much
We just like to see the boys hit it deep…
TODD:
What did you say? Did you say, “We don’t worry ’bout the planet much?” It’s the pennant!
ME: (laughing hysterically through my embarrassment)
What?!
TODD:
Yeah, you know. Baseball. The pennant. They’re not worried about the pennant. Why wouldn’t they be worried about the planet? That doesn’t make any sense.
ME:
I just thought it meant, you know, they don’t recycle and stuff. They’re not worried about the planet. They’re worried about baseball!
TODD:
No, that’s wrong.
It’s nice for your husband to humble you every now and then. The best part about this is that I’m always correcting him about misheard lyrics and then I go and confuse “pennant” with “planet.”
here’s a refresher for all of you if you can’t remember what “Cheap Seats” sounds like.
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that is Hi-larious! hahaha
Oh my gosh…hilarious
Love this song!
Ahhh..too funny. My husband makes up his own lyrics to every song…
Ha ha ha ha! That’s awesome… well they probably don’t care about the planet either, right?
Ha ha, I thought the same thing for awhile, so don’t feel bad. I haven’t heard that song in ages – thanks for the reminder!
well if they’re that worried about the pennant, then they probably aren’t worried about the planet:) that is a cute story! that is the selective memory stuff that he will miraculously remember forever!
You are too funny!! I do the same thing with songs all the time, and Grant does it too! I don’t pick on him when he does it anymore, because he picks on me so much more when I do it, so I try to leave him alone about it.
That is hilarious!
I have been reading your blog for a long time now and I don’t think I have left a comment.. Your story is so very funny! Got me laughing for sure this morning! I always think songs say other words then what they are really saying..
Katrina
http://www.thecarlislelife.blogspot.com/
OMG I’VE THOUGHT THE SAME THING SINCE I WAS LITTLE! AND NOBODY EVERY CORRECTED ME! LMAO!
Thanks for the clarification!
Hahahahahhahah! I love that story!!!!
I’m at my desk with bite marks in my lip b/c I really want to laugh out loud but I can’t because then they will know I’m reading blogs!
So funny!! Love it! xxoo
That’s great! My husband and I do this all the time! Gosh, I haven’t heard this song in forever!
Haha! That is too cute! My husband LOVES that song!!! Thanks to his love of the song I am pretty sure I know all the words. Great song!
I thought it was “planet” at first too. They don’t make it very clear. But at least you can admit when you are sort of wrong.
XOXO
I love it! I like to sing the TI song “Whatever you Like” but apparently I get about 70% of the words wrong. For example “Stacks on me, petron on ice, we can pop collars all night.” Who knew that isn’t what they’re saying?!? Mr. Everlasting will just shake his head and say, “Stacks on DECK honey, on DECK. And they aren’t talking about popping their collars…”
Oh man, that is funny!!!
Haha! Don’t feel too bad! Hubby always messes up the lyrics! He thought the Elton John Song “Tiny Dancer” was actually “hold me close I’m tired of dancing…” Yeah. So he has no room to talk.
That is truly hilarious! Hey, we’re all prone to have our “blond moments.” I regularly make up my own lyrics to songs when I don’t know them and Brian finds it quite amusing!
LOL – too funny! That is one of my favorite songs! HA!
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Funny. I do the same sort of thing all the time. My husband is the worst. Once he thought that the John Fogerty song “Put Me In Coach” was like put me in coach and not first class. As in, an airplane. I asked him “well, what about when he starts signing about ‘centerfield’ and ‘joe dimaggio’? Didn’t you think baseball, then?” But, no, he is just dumb!
By the way, love your blog.
Oh that is too funny!
AHH! Oh my God, I thought the same thing until right now!!! What the heck? I’ve been belting this song out with the wrong lyrics for years! And picking on my friends who do the same thing!
This makes me want to get out my old Alabama cd and listen to that today. Thanks for the reminder of a great country song, even though I’ve been embarrassing myself and singing the lyrics totally wrong!
this is so something mr. m would do. i can see todd just lying there rolling his eyes at you while you laugh!! BWAHAHAHA
I *always* sing the wrong words to songs. Sometimes you just cannot understand what the artist is singing! Ha!
LOL, I NEVER know words to songs, but I sing them really loudly anyway!
So funny! I was singing the lyrics as I was reading them and didn’t even notice planet versus pennant. I probably sang it wrong too! There are a lot of songs from my childhood that I was singing wrong back then.
You crack me up! Although, I’m guilty of getting lyrics WRONG & hubby likes to invent new lyrics….
Precious story!
That was awesome. You just brightened my afternoon and made me laugh out loud!!
I’m laughing only because I do this allllll the time! It drives my husband crazy when I sing in the car on roadtrips because it’s a given that I’ll destroy any song with the lyrics! This made me laugh
Ha! I thought it was planet too! So funny!
HILARIOUS!!!!
Hilarious!
I have been singing PLANET since I was little. And I had the exact same rationale-that they didn’t recycle and stuff. OMG-I can’t believe that. WOW! Thanks Todd for teaching us all! Wow!
That’s awesome.
I am always getting the lyrics wrong, so I can totally relate to this one. 
I think it adds character to the song.