misheard lyrics

Me and my sister used to like Dina Carroll songs, and we were convinced that one of the songs went, 'The Red-nosed man makes me feel like you do, the red-nosed man and his red-nosed dog' needless to say that actual lyrics are, 'There aint no man makes me feel like you do, there aint no man, aint no doubt'
I think our version is better

Loz

When Nirvana's Nevermind first came out, my sister and I used to joke about the last word repeated by Kurt in Smells Like Teen Spirit - not knowing the correct phrase (a denial), and knowing a little Ukrainian, we assumed (naturally) that he had to be saying "Ya Ne Znayoo" or "I don't know"

Jules

When I was a child and we drove around Chicago, I first heard the Hall & Oates' song "Maneater" on the car. I thought that Daryl Hall & John Oates said "Oh Michigan!" because I was thinking about Lake Michigan and so.

Anon

That the first line of ABBA's Mamma Mia was "I've been cheating on you since I don't know when", instead of "I've been cheated by you" It gives the whole song a completely different meaning. I discovered my error at a karaoke night recently. I was absolutely gutted that the woman was actually the victim.
I still prefer my version.

Welsh girl

When I was young, easy-listening music was my favorite. When I first heard Louis Armstrong's "Blueberry Hill," I thought that he said "I found my drill on Blueberry hill..." and it turns out "I found my thrill..."

Anon

I used to think the lyrics in a Jimmie Hendrix song went, "excuse me while I kiss this guy", instead of "excuse me while I kiss the sky"...LOL!

Jonny

I used to beleive that the song "Rock me Amadeus" actuallay sang as ooh ooh rock me hot potatoes...hot potatoes...hot potatoes...

christo

In the Walking on Broken Glass song, My brother and I always used to sing "walking on, walking on, walking on broken grass" and run around barefoot in the yard.

Lindsay

In 'You're the One That I Want' out of 'Grease', I always thought they were singing 'Russian love, Russian love for me and you' (ie Nothing left, nothing left for me to do).

And going back a bit further than that, I thought the words to the nursery rhyme were 'Horsey horsey don't you stop. Just let your wheels go clippety clop.' Sad thing is, I was in my twenties and singing it to my niece before I suddenly thought 'hang on, horses don't have wheels do they?' Well, it's not like I sang it all that often in the intervening years..

Rob

Up until I was over 30 years old, I believed that in the Eddie Cochrane song 'Drive In Show', he was singing 'Bet my penis to a candy bar, you'll be cuter than a movie star'. It seemed a bit overly racey for the 1950s to me, and I wasn't 100% sure that I was hearing it right. But I couldn't think what else it could be, so assumed I must be right. Until my wife pointed out that if you substitue the word 'peanuts', then it makes a whole lot more sense! ok, I suppose so...

Rob

Cant remember who sang it, but there was a song called 'Poetry in Motion' and I always used to sing 'Oh a tree in motion'

A friend of my brother used to sing 'Old Piano' instead of 'Oh Vienna' (Ultravox - Viena)

JL

i used to listen to the song 'man in the moon' and when the line went 'if you believe there is a man in the moon...' i thought it was 'if you believe there is a man in you room'

Kaylee

Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone

Jenny

At a family sing-along my sister made us all hysterical while singing Kenny Roger's Lucille. Instead of the words '4 hungry children & a crop in the field' she sang '400 children & a crop in the field.' Although she knows the correct words now, she will never live this one down for generations!

Ellie

in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"

Steped

In early elementary school I thought "My Country 'Tis of Thee..." was "My Country Tisafee." I was under the impression that the U.S.A. could be called America or, I guessed, Tisafee. I even told a crush of mine named Tiffany that her named kinda sounded like our country's one morning in class... she gave me a rather puzzled look...

Elliot

In Alannis Morrisette's song "Ironic" instead of "An old man turned ninty-eight" I would sing "The Postman turned and he ate"

ande

When I was 9, my cousin was 8. I had brought my Britney Spears CD to the Thanksgiving gathering that year. I had my headset, and she was listening to "Lucky" on the CD. She was singing along, "And she cries, cries, cries, in the lonely dawn thinking..." I hope she figured out she was wrong.

Anon