Thread: Mixed up lyrics

Maybe...You cant always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need

You can't always get what you want - R. Stones?

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, well you just might find
You get what you need

Springwater got in first. Actual text typed in to Babelfish was:

You cant always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, well you just might find
You get what you need

Have a go Springwater, hint don't use punctuation i.e. spell can't, cant. Babelfish gets confused.

Not so much a lyric to a song but you'll get the drift, hope it's not too obscure.
When the permission wins the glass, the snow of [harisun] which made that mountain, the old person of white of that similar hair it was; But that side, when that blood rises rather, to ride it is possible small amount

Oh my god, what have I started ?

...your not wrong, this could go anywhere, mines too hard isn't it ?

Originally Posted by springwater

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mines too hard isn't it ?

Maybe .

Kinda reminds me of "man from snowy river". I have no idea why though.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Kinda reminds me of "man from snowy river". I have no idea why though.

That's the one Tea Lady

Start of second verse:

There was Harrison, who made his pile when Pardon won the cup,
The old man with his hair as white as snow;
But few could ride beside him when his blood was fairly up -

(When the permission wins the glass, the snow of [harisun] which made that mountain, the old person of white of that similar hair it was; But that side, when that blood rises rather, to ride it is possible small amount)

Originally Posted by springwater

That's the one Tea Lady

Jeez! Not like I know the peom or anything. Mow I gotta go and workk out how to use babble fish. And think of something to plug into it. Back soon.

[hukurou] and the cat cat went into the sea of the boat of beautiful green color thin. Those took the honey, Sawayama's money wrapped with note of 5 pounds. At on you inspected [hukurou] in the star, sang in the small guitar. Oh beautiful cat. How, it is the beautiful cat or, Oh cat my love. The cat said [hukurou], the candy how sings beautifully, the eligent fowl.

Is this what you're trying to say?

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat:
They took some honey,
and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl,
How charmingly sweet you sing!
Oh! let us be married;
too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the bong-tree grows;
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood,
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

And hand in hand on the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Can someone tell me where "Sawayama's money wrapped with note of 5 pounds" come from

Originally Posted by springwater

Can someone tell me where "Sawayama's money wrapped with note of 5 pounds" come from

With this one I think the translation from English to Japanese and back again makes almost as much sense as the original, assuming that I've picked the correct poem.
I have fond memories of my grandfather reciting this silly poem to me as a young child, I never did understand it but I always laughed at it. It makes more sense now when you read the seventh line in the third verse .