misheard lyrics

When i was younger i used to think the lyrics to "Smack that" were "backpack, left on the floor"
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I was working in an overnight child care center while majoring in music, and was preparing to conduct the Vivaldi Gloria and Kyrie, and I'd been listening to the recording while the children (I thought) slept, and practicing conducting One section of the Gloria is "Et in Terra Pax Hominibus" (And on Earth, Peace to All Men),.

One of my 4 yr olds asked me if we could sing the "Bus song"-when I asked him what he meant, he sang "It's a terrible piece, oh Minibus!"





One of my 4 yr

Anon

my sister used to think the lyrics to the Hall & Oates song, "Private Eyes... there watching you, they see your every move." was actually, "Crocodiles...they're watching you, they see your every move

Angela & Natalie

Last night, I went with my family to see the play "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." One of the songs by Joseph's brothers, called "Canaan Days", was sung with a very silly, over-done fake French accent. They were singing "Lift your berets", and it was being pronounced sort of like "BELL-ayz." I heard this as "Lift up your bellies," which made no sense. I had this weird mental image of these guys laying on their backs and presenting their bare stomachs to the king.

The next one is from the same show. The song is "Go, go, go Joseph." The Narrator is introducing the butler, and she says, "He was the Jeeves of his time." I heard this as "He was the CHEESE of his time." I spent most of intermission puzzling over this line and trying to figure out what the butler had to do with a chunk of cheese.

(I shared both of these with my mom. She was quite entertained.)

Taylor (methinks I need hearing aids)

I used to believe that the lyrics to Savage Gardens Animal Song was "I wanna live like cannibal" I always wondered why they wanted to eat other people, was it better than eating animals??

Bronagh Lee

I thought the line 'Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" in the ACDC song was 'Dirty thieves and the thunder chief' (??)

Also, there is a BeeGees song, I think called 'More than a woman'. As a kid, I sang 'Four legged woman, four legged woman to me' (I still prefer my version.

Finally, an Australian band Cold Chisel had a song with the line 'Cheap wine and a three day growth'. We always sang it as 'Cheap wine and a female goat'.

FR

When I was 11 years old, the song
"Whats My Age Again" - Blink182
was very popular. And my friend and
I LOVE Blink 182.

So the 1st verse went like this:
I took her out, it was a Friday night
I wore colonge to get the feeling right

And we heard:
I took a ROUTE it was a Friday night,
I walk alone to get the feeling right.

It was soooo hillarious!

Rizzie Cakes

The GoGo's song "Our Lips Are Sealed" sounded like "Honest I See You" to me for a long time.

Lisa

When the All Saints song 'Never Ever' came out, my sister and I loved it and sang along: 'The ceiling won't last that long...' We didn't question that at all. A very long time afterwards it clicked that the line was 'This feeling won't last that long.'

Husna

I used to think that in the song "Bad to the Bone'', that he would say:
on the day I was born
the nurses all gathered clowns
and gazed in white thunder
at the boy they had found
(here is where I could not understand the words and just sang jibberish)
tut tut butt butt
seleeze alee ohco
they could tell right away...
I still don't know what the guy was actually saying.

Erin

In the title theme from "Dukes Of Hazzard" the line goes "Just the good ol' boys,
Never meanin' no harm,
Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. "
I always heard "been in trouble with the law since the Daisy was born."

Oh man, girls cause trouble

Slim Tom

I used to think the title of Savage Garden's "The Animal Song" was actually "Run through the Jungle" - fair enough, you might say. But I also used to think the line "I want to live like animals" actually said "I want to live like a cannonball". Thinking about it now, I realise it makes no sense, considering the rest of the song, but it didn't bother me at the time.

Vas

" In the jungle,the mighty jungle,the lion did a shite.In the jungle,the peaceful jungle,the lion did a shite....Oooh,Eeeeee,Oh Oh Oh ee um um away"
Another gem from 4-year old Paddy.

Justine,Stirling,Scotland

Until I was about 10, I was convinced that the song "Auld Lang Syne" was about doing things "for the sake of Old Man's Eye".

Hannah

I thought in Jay-Z's song Renegade, he says 'Say that I'm foolish, I only talk about Jews'. As it turns out, the line is 'I only talk about jewels'. I wondered for a while while Jay-Z had an obession with Jewish people.

Maddy

When I was in the first grade, a little boy I knew told me one day what his parts were called. The next day I heard the song "Venus in Blue Jeans" on the radio. I thought they were referring to the same word. I was shocked that such a dirty song would be allowed on the radio and would get terribly embarrassed whenever I was in the car with my family and it started playing.

K.