misheard lyrics

ohhh say can you see
by the donterly light....
i was a dumb kid! i didnt know the right words to my own national anthem!

Anon

I used to think the words to Praise You by Fatboy Slim went "We've come a long long way together, through the hard times and the shoes. I have to try and graze you baby, I have to graze you like a shoe"
It didn't occur to me that you don't generally graze shoes do you?

Grazy Daisy

My 14-year old sister always sing "In the jungle, the LION jungle ...", no matter how many times we tell her it's MIGHTY jungle, she keeps getting it wrong.

Lizzie

i thought that new disney peter pan song said "spread your legs" but its really "spread your wings"

shasta

When I was young, I thought the song "Secret Agent Man" was actually called "Secret Asian Man" and I could never understand why they had "taken away his name"

Paula

When I was little I loved the song "What kind of fool do you think I am?"These words are the chorus...My take on the song you ask?I sang it,What kind of food do you think I am?The sad part?I sang it this way until I was 11.

Jill

Until a few years ago, I thought Eric Clapton was saying "hey love" instead of Layla. I love this oldie and was singing it loud. My friend had a look of annoyance on her face when she said it's LAYLA!

mikiesmom

I used to think that in the song Jet they were actually singing chair

anony-mouse

There's this church group called EFY that I listened to a lot. One of their songs is called 'We Believe.' One verse of it, in the chorus, is 'We believe in obedience ringing the bell of the free..." For several years, I thought it was 'We believe in the beady ants ringing the bell of the free', and I sang it like that every time. Finally one day I had a breakthrough.

O, Beady Ants...

There's an Irish music group called Celtic Women. On their Christmas CD, there is a song called "Play The Old Christmas Pipes." My dad burst out laughing one day when he heard both my mom and me sing, "Gravy on the Christmas pies...."

Taylor (again.... Methinks I need hearing aids)

in the song Im Blue I used to think the lyrics were, "im blue, i believe i would die, i believe i would die, i believe i would die..."

i thought, "those are odd lyrics."

ConanaBanana02

Once while I was going somewhere with a friend and my sister the song "Blurry" by "Puddle Of Mud" started playing on the radio so me,my sister and my friend started to sing it. (We liked the song obviously.) But while me and my singer were singing the song correctly:
(It said :"Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake and everybody's empty and everything is so messed up...")
my friend was singing the complete opposite of the song:
(She said:"Everything so perfect,everything so right..." And god knows what else...)And man did we make fun of her for it!!! Ha ha.

Christina

I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".

Anon

Growing up, we used to go to the local waterpark on the weekends. They used to play a lot of the songs from the Beach Boys. My fathers name is Bob Brown, and I used to thing their song "Barbra Ann" was actually being sung "Bob Bob Bob, Bob Bob Brown" and that the Beach Boys had written the song about my dad and dedicated it to him. My father knew I thought this and did not tell me until i figured it out when I was 10. He had been laughing at me about it for about 6 years.

Anon

Part of the national anthem (UK) goes 'Send her victorious, happy and glorious'. I thought it said 'Send her Victoria, happy and Laura'. This made sense, seeing as at that time there were some twins called Laura and Victoria, so clearly the song was dedicated to them.

Katrina

This isn't MINE, perse, but it's still enough to make me go into fits of laughter whenever I hear the song:

My friend Hyatt and I were sitting in her room listening to the radio. The Beach Boy's song "Barbara Ann" came on the radio, and Hyatt began singing it phonetically. It didn't sound all that wrong until after the song was over.

"Alistaire? What's a boberanne?"

"I dunno."

"Because I have a theory. A boberanne is a pink flamingo wearing Mardi Gras beads and an ornate feathered-headdress."

".... Good call."

Alistaire and His Magical Boberanne

I used to wonder why the word "seldom" was "a discouraging word", according to the lyrics for the song Home on the Range.

Anon