misheard lyrics

I used to think the words in ZZ Top's I'm bad, I'm nationwide was I'm bad, venetian blinds. I thought he was so cool he had blinds on his car.

Anon

My family used to listen to Broadway show tunes records. A favorite when I was about 6 years old was "West Side Story".

In the song "America", the Puerto Rican boys and girls argue about whether life in America is great, or not. I always believed that once I was older, I'd find out who "Morris Amalfi" was and why it mattered that he was in America:

"I like to be in America, Okay by me in America, Everything free in America, Morris Amalfi in America!"


The correct line, of course, is "For a small fee in America".

deucednuisance

A friend of mine thought The Eagles Life in the Fast Lane was Wipin' the Vaseline.

Megnolia

"Here he co-oo-oo-oo-oo-omes, that's Catfish Clown..." I didn't know the name of the song was "Cathy's Clown" until I was 18.

Anon

my friend at school thought the beach boys song which goes ‘wish they all could be California girls’ was ‘wish we all could be chipolatas’… and hot chocolates ‘I believe in miracles’ was ‘ I believe in mirror balls’ she was about 14 when she thought this!!!!

steph

that line in the sound of music was "tea: a drink with jan and fred." i watched that movie a million times and couldn't never figure out who jan and fred were!

silly boy

when my daughter was about 6 years old and was losing her teeth, she thought the song, Little Deuce Coop by the Beach Boys, was Little Loose Tooth.

anne

As a Native Canadian it made me quite happy that our National Anthem stated "our home ON Native land." It wasn't until my last year at University that I finally learned the true verse. "Our home AND Native land." I never much cared for the National Athem afterwards.

Anon

prince had a red cherry parade, jesus was the lord of the dance setee at some happy
clappy christian house party and pearl jam had a glorified virgin on a pelican. nice.

shelbey

My mom loved Fleetwood Mac when I was little, and I could never understand why she would like a group who sang a song about "parents only love you when they're playing". It was only when I was about 15 that I realized they were saying "Players only love you when they're playing". I used to ask her all the time if she REALLY loved me.

Jill

my older brother was a metalhead and taught me to sing along to "battery" by metallica. one line goes "hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker...", but i always thought it was "hunting bob seger". it made sense that the guys in metallica would think bob seger was a wussy.

kieran

I always thought that, in that song in Flashdance that goes "Take your passion and make it happen, the lryics went "Take your pants down and make it happen." I got this from my uncle, who used to sing it jokingly, though I didn't know that at the time, when I was very little. I thought this until I was around 13.

Mike Welch

Since I never knew the words to the National Anthem, I thought the words were: "Hose can you See..." That's what it sounded like until I asked my mother who Hose was. She laughed and said it's "Oh Say can you see..."

Julie

For a long time, I thought the lyric
"Blowing thru the jasmine in my mind" from _Summer Breeze_ by Seals and Crofts was "Blowing through the jazz mounds in my mind." I always would wonder what the heck a "jazz mound" was.

Anon

More misheard lyrics....

I thought the line in "Doe, a Deer.." went "La, a note to follow song." As in, you use the word la to sing la la la.
I still think it's better that "la, a note to follow so."

helen

i used to think that in the song "ebony and ivory" he was singing "emily, amme-marie, sitting side by side on my piano keyboard". i thought for some reason he'd sat his two little girls on his piano...

Anon

My husband has never been very good at getting the lyrics of songs correct, or even products names right (Simmeroff for the vodka and nonfast colour eds for non fast coloureds on the washing machine) but anyhow, one story he told me was on the song Liberator by Spear of Destiny. He would always sing for the chorus at the top of his voice 'I'm a little bit high, a little bit high, a little bit, a little bit' and could not work out why it was called Liberator until some friends corrected him.

bluekarin

We had to do exercises (proto aerobics) in kindergarten to Simon and Garfunkel's 'Sounds of silence'. I was always confused by what I thought was 'And in the naked lad i saw/ 10,000 people, maybe more'. (It's 'in the naked light'.)

Scorp

I grew up in Whitestone, New York. When Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" would come on the radio, I would sing "I'm a Whitestone cowboooooy....!" much to the chagrin of my mother.

Jen