misheard lyrics

I thought "I wandered lonely as a cloud" was "I want a pony for my shroud"-well, the school choir was made up of very horsy girls.

Cat

i used to think the song jeremy by pearl jam said "jeremy's toe jam, heeeyyy" instead of "jeremy's spoken, in class today"
:)

julia penn

i used to think sting's song, the one that went "i'm an alien, an illegal alien, im an englishman in new york" said "i'm a jamaican in new yorK".. funny he didnt sound jamaican to me....

julia penn

It wasn't until recently that I discovered that contrary to my family's beliefs, the words to that Michael Jackson song were *not* "Annie Annie wonky, Annie wonky, Annie wonky, Annie" but, "Annie are you ok...etc".

Roy

To the BeeGee's Night Fever - for years I thought the lyrics were "In ninety-ninety-nine, we'll know how to do it..." instead of "Night Fever, Night Feee-verr..."
I just assumed they were singing about the millenium party

George

I thought that the 80's song "Alive'n Kicking" was saying in the chorus line "I love a kickin'"

marina

I was convinced in the song "you are not alone" that michael jackson was actually telling lisa-marie presley that 'your burgers are the best' I have recently been corrected and told that it is 'your burdens I will bear' hmmm think he was better off with the burgers

katy

I use to think in the Bee Gees song they sang "Living in a world of food" instead of fools.

Stevie

My most favorite song by Elton John, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", was one of many songs I sang wrongly.
In one verse, I sang "And stricken by a harlot's social scene, just a pawn I paid five dollar and eighty quid", when it was "I'm strangled by your haunted social scene, just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen."
...Luckily I now have a book of lyrics to help correct me.

Li A

My parents listened to Kenny Rodgers when I was younger. Up until very recently both me and my sister (who are 26 and 21 respectively). Thought that the lines in Lucille said 'four hundred children' instead of 'four hungry children'. We just thought it was a case of country music style exagggeration.

Emma

I was a fully functioning adult when I heard this one.. there's a nifty Van Morrison song which says: "And we walked the pagan streams". But I was hearing "And we walked the pig in strings", which puts a whole other slant on Celtic mysticism.

david

Who remembers 'My Simple Heart' by the Three Degrees???

I was convinced they were singing 'Bicycle Parts'

Graham

People still erroneously believe that the Beatles have a song about a 'paperback writer', when clearly it's about a paper bag writer as I have known since the age of four.

Lily The Pig

my mum or my brother used to think the words to a song ( i dont no the name) were ' some times i fell like throwing my pants up in the air' instead of 'some times i fell like throwing my HANDS up in the air'

Lu,ur like sooo imbaresed now mattpo. mwhahahaha

It was roughly the same time that I started to eat Indian food and discovered Abba. I thought that Abba sang about Chicken Tikka when in fact it was Chiquitia.

Helen

I thought that the line in The Beatles' Get Back "I loathed that sweater" in fact it is "low necked sweater"

Helen

My youngest brother used to sing to Paul Youngs "Every time you go away" with the line "Every time you go away you take a piece of MEAT with you"

Anna

Remember the song "Out of Reach" by Gabrielle? Well my horrible elder brother convinced me that she wasnt' singing "out of reach" but was singing "Valerie".....and I was caught singing Valerie in public.....lol...

Kate the Kat

I always thoguth that Natalie Imbruglia was actually singing 'Didn't wanna leave you with my last infection' instead of 'Didn't wanna leave you with my last inflection'
I always wondered what she'd caught and who from!!!!!!

Heat