misheard lyrics

Actually this was my daughter's belief as a 10 year old. We moved to Saudi Arabia while the Iran-Iraq war was going on. We listened to oldies quite a bit. She thought when the Beach Boys sang "Ba-ba-ba, ba-Barbara Ann" they were singing "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb Iran". I think she believed it up until a few years ago.

Jim Hughes

When i was about 13 i heard this song by Earth Wind & Fire, called "Let's Groove tonight"
I thouroughly enjoyed it and kept remembering the part: Mister Scrooge! get you to move.
I found out 4 years later (17 years old now and desperately searching for that really cool song) that the actual words were: Let this groove! get you to move

Abigail

my brother would sing "Because I'm Shaving!!!!!" when the song was "Because I'm Shameless!"

Anon

As I child I never could figure out who this 'Jose' was that people always sang about: "Jose can you see, by the dawnsearly light..."

Anon

when i was young, around 10 and i heard queen's Another one bite's the dust, I thought i was hearing, Another one basta dasta.
Def Lepard's song Pour some sugar on me, was awsome surgar plum day!

Anon

Actually this wasn't such a long time ago, but in that song that says "shake it like a polaroid picture" my friend gen thought it said shake it like a paraplegic. omg. so funny

Emily

i used to sing "the book panorama, the book panorama, the book..." it is actually "the funk phenomena"

angelo

I thought the song "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash was written for my sister because I thought the lyrics in the chorus were "Charlene don't like it." My sister's name is Charlene.

Gillian

Boston, "More Than A Feeling"..

True Lyrics: "I see my marianne walkin' away"

What I heard: "I see my derriere walkin' away"

Painful!

Ket

Tina Moore, "Never Gonna Let You Go", late 90's....
True Lyrics: "Worth more than a million in gold"
What I heard: "Football alluminium and go".
An alluminium football? How strange...

Ket

I used to think the Lyrics to Tub Thumping were " kissing the night away, kissing the night today" until a minute ago when I read someone elses belief about the song, and how they though along the smae lines...theline is "pissing the night away!

Emelia

i cant remember the song it went something like i think it is i belive in miracles but i alway thought it went

i belive in macrels (a fish) where you from you sex the pain.

it actully goes
i belive in miracles, where you from you sexy thing.

oh well the mic has been taken for years.

ben

I used to think "Don't be fooled by the rock that i go" form Jenny from the block was "Don't be fooled by the LUCKS that i got" and i realised the correct one just now! after i look at the lyrics.

albert Lalrinchhana

As a small child, my father always called me "Boog-a-loo" for some unknown reason. He's also been a fan of Nirvana for as long as I can remember.

Whenever he'd sing along to the song "Lithium" in the car he'd sing "I'm so ugly, but that's ok / cause so are you / Boog-a-loo". The correct lyrics are "I'm so ugly, but that's ok / cause so are you / we broke our mirrors"

I'm now a fan of Nirvana, and almost 15 years later, I still sing the wrong lyrics out of habit.

Brittany a.k.a. "Boog-a-loo"

I thought the Franz Ferdinand song went,
"I'm just a cross-eye without you" and I thought wow, that love is so deep, how touching.
Correct lyrics:
"I'm just a crosshair away from you"

aria

I thought the song, "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop Dog said, "Drop it like a saw, drop it like a saw..." as opposed to drop it like it's hot. I was convinced he liked to kill people by dropping flaming saws on them. I'm not sure why.

Shauna

Up until five minutes ago, while reading your site, and breaking into song, I thought that "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" actually went "Big HOtel Carolina"
I sang the my lyrics, then the proper lyrics, and realized : I'm a doofus!
The stupid part is that I have belted that out on more than one occassion...no wonder everyone was laughing at me.

Tone-Deaf

Being from NC, my parents always listened to country music. There was an old Travis Tritt song that went..." I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E." My younger sister thought it was " I spilled tea all ove you, Billy."

Ben

I know I'm not alone with this one:

No matter how many times I listen to "Help Me Rhonda," by the Beach Boys, I still hear the same strange phrase at the beginning:

"Well since she put me down, there's been owls pukin' in my bed."

I just looked up the lyrics and found out they're actually: "Well since she put me down I’ve been out doin’ in my head."

HUH?! That makes even less sense! I'm going to stick with my version.

Stendy