misheard lyrics

My twin sister and I used to sing "We're gonna rock down to electric companoo" instead of electric avenue!

Erica Coppinger

Ive just read that the song Poison Summer is actually called Boys of Summer....well, my Grandad used to tell me that I should learn something new every day!
Also, last week while singing along to Nirvana's About a girl, my sister belts out "I need a measley friend"...stupid girl!

Kelly (Newcastle)

Cher's 'Do you believe'
My niece used to sing ....'and I don't need a new coat...' the actual lyrics are '....and I don't need a miracle....'Don't ya love it?!!!!

Leanne

Up until a couple of weeks ago (and I'm nearly 40 !), I was convinced that in the song "How Deep is Your Love", the Bee Gees sang that "You came to me on a submarine". I've always thought it was a bizarre lyric. (It's actually "on a Summer breeze")

Steve

Until I was about 21, when the penny dropped, I used to think that the song lyrics "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow", was about a bloke and his dog who went to a place called "Mow-a-Meadow".
Well my parents didn't have a lawn... :)

Dave Rigby

When my younger sister was about 5 she misheard "Sad Sweet Dreamer" - she thought they were singing "sexy people, it's just one of those things you put down to experience". Well maybe it is, but I'm sure that's not what they're singing!

Lynne S

Similar to Jo, I had a friend who thought that Freddy Mercury was singing "spare him his life from these pork sausages"! I can't listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without hearing that -even though I know the correct lyrics!

Lynne S

we used to sing as kids
(thinking we were right)
mais e dotes an dos e dotes
and litte lamsitivy
a tiddly tivie to
wouldnt you
(real words)
mares eat oats
and lambs eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
id like to eat ivy too wouldnt you

Anon

When my son was small, whwnever the Kenny Rogers song "Lucille" came on the radio he would say..I hate that song!..one day I asked why & he said..cause his wife left him with 400 children ^ crops in the field!!..the lyrics are.... 4 hungry children...I'll never forget that to this day!!

Helen

The REM song The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight. Here comes my crazy lyric, the chorus line "going in to wake her" i was convinced and i want all to listen because Michael Stipe is messing with us really says "Born in Jamaica" honest

George

in the well know song "i can see clearly now the rain has gone" i used to think that ob-stickles referred to were a kind of rainy dewdrop thingy that clung to you eyelids if it was raining and that became visible when the rain stopped and the sun came out.....in fact i'm still not emntirey convinced that they aren't

owen cash

For years I used to think that Wombles were "common" due to thinking that the theme tune talked about "Wombles of Wimbledon - common are we" instead of meaning that the Wombles were from Wimbledon Common!

Lins

In Van Halen's song "Jump", the line is "I ain't the worst that you've seen." I thought it was, "I eat the words that you sing."

amy j

When my Mum was a little girl, she was convinced that a certain Christmas carol went: "Good King Wensus last looked out..."

Most obvious twisted lyric in my opinion has to be the chorus of The Police's "So Lonely", which sounds like they're chanting the name of Sue Lawley, one time BBC newsreader and Nationwide presenter.

If anyone really wants to get some lyric seriously wrong, try listening to the early albums of IQ without the lyric sheets. I did this with a friend, and we tried to work them out. About two years later, we finally got access to the words, and found out that we'd only been about 50% accurate. It still makes life a bit difficult trying to sing along at their gigs!

Uncle Korky

I used to believe the lyrics to the zephyr song (red hot chilli peppers) were "Fly away on my cell phone" instead of "fly away on my zephyr!)

vick

FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER THE SONG " DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY" SOUNDED LIKE " DO IT JUST LIKE A LADY" DOESN'T MINE MAKE MORE SENSE? ALSO THE SONG WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN I THOUGHT WAS WHEN A MAN LOVES A WALNUT!

JANE

In a song I heard by Micheal Jackson, Billie Jean, yesterday, I swore he was saying
"Kitty Kitty, At my door,
he claims I am no fun,
Janet's not my son"

when it was in fact,

Billie Jean Is Not My Lover
She's Just A Girl Who Claims That I Am The One
But The Kid Is Not My Son
She Says I Am The One, But The Kid Is Not My Son

Truly weird.

Emily

when i was 16 there was a song called Hurry up harry ......by sham 69, i really didn't understand it when they sang in the chorus ''Marry the hairy camel'' i only realised it was''hurry up harry, come on'' when my husband realised what song i was singing an told me what the actual words were.

a very embaressed wife and mother

In Paul Simons " Graceland ", my son ( and I ) originally heard the line " as if i never noticed the way she brushed her hair and farted". YOU LISTEN THE NEXT TIME. The actual line is "The way she brushed her hair from her forehead"

Keith P