misheard lyrics

My friends brother (being the grunge rock god that he is) thought that Nirvana sang "I'm made of lizard breath" instead of "I need an easy friend" he performed and sang that at a school concert!

Chuckles

It was only recently as I was driving with my relatively new boyfriend that I found out I had been getting the words to Baa Baa Black sheep wrong all my life. Not in one place but in three!! I had been singing:
Baa baa black sheep, have you anymore (any wool)?
Yes sir, yes sir 3 bags four (full)
One for the master, one for the day (dame)
And one for the little boy that lives down the lane.

Sarah J

My 3 year old daughter sings the Attomic Kitten song "The tide is high" Her way is "The tidiest house im moving on".Cant wait until her Twenty first.

Shar nz

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

when I first heard the song "Strange Brew" by Cream I thought they were singing "Strange Prune" - I have no idea why...

steve

When my husband was small he wondered what muching for money was.
As in the Beatles song 'I don't care too much for money - money can't buy me love'!

Karen

I used to think that the refrain to Pearl Jam's 'Glorifird G' went, '45 virgins on a pelican' instead of 'glorified version of a pellet gun.' Imagine the embarrasment when my mom heard me singing that in my room.

Anon

Don't actually know the name of the song - but the lyrics "wide eyed and legless" escaped me for years. I though the guy was singing "my diamond necklace" for years before I realised my mistake!

Anon

The song with the lyrics - "secret sign of love" was "secret xylophone" which never made any sense. This song was out in the early ninties and I only found out the real lyrics when my girlfriend told me the other day. I'm 22.

Anon

The first time I heard Enigma's "Age of Loneliness," I thought I heard "Take it, take it in your a**." I knew that couldn't be right, but still, that's how it sounded. I told my now-husband on our second date, and after laughing his head off, he informed me it was "Take it, take it in your hands." I suppose that makes a little more sense.

LTM

"Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light..."

How enlightened of our forefathers to include Mexican-Americans in our national anthem!

Anon

Something funny happened to me and my mom driving home from the mall about a month ago, when the song "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner" came on the radio in the car. I realized already that this was a very commonly misheard song (and with good reason), but was pretty sure I had the right lyrics. So come the chorus, my mom and I (who had not been singing along to the rest of the song) sang two different lines. Mind you, my own came out very loudly as I was trying to sound like an idiot. I guess I got more than I bargained for:

My mom: "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner"
Myself: "BINGO JED HAD A LIGHTER!!"

I am laughing so hard right now I can hardly type properly. I swear to god, listen to the song and sing that lyric along to it, it sounds exactly like that. I still sing it like that because it's so much funnier.

Caitlin from Canada

Someone else has mentioned this simon and garfunkel song, but I misheard the line "come-on from the whores on seventh avenue" as "come home from the war-zone, seventh avenue".

I thought that maybe seventh avenue was some kind of gang-ruled area or at least a big, ruthless financial quarter.

It makes more sense now I know it's about whores but I feel embarrassed for always singing it at the top of my voice!

Jill

I used to think Jimi Hendrix' "Hey Joe" went "I'm going down to shoot my old lady, you know I'd probably mess around with another man"......instead of "I'm going down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messing around with another man".

Anon

When I was little I used to think that the Sheena Easton song "Morning Train" went like this: "My baby takes the morning drink, he works from 9 to 5 and then, he takes another home again to find me waiting for him . . . " My parents used to die laughing as I strolled around the house singing at the top of my lungs. I always took offense, never knowing why it was so funny.

Leslie

when I was younger i thought in "Blinded by the light"
said
"wrapped up like a dutchman of the rotor in the night",
instead of "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

Anon

Until I was about 7 or 8, I thought the song "Raspberry Beret" was saying "raspberry parade". My brother, who was about 13 or 14, thought the same. So it came on the radio in the car one day, and it came to that line. So we sang, "...she wore a raspberry parade!" and my mom busted out laughing. She told us it was "beret" and asked, "How could you wear a parade?!?" We still laugh about that!

Confused Raspberry

I used to have this obsession with the play Cats and used to sing the Jellicle Song all the time. My friend could'nt understand why I was singing a song about 'Jellycones' She thought I was singing about dancing cups of jelly.
And also she though "saying skimble where is skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble" was "saying skimble where is skimble he's up a tree". weird!

lederhosen

AC/DC dirty deeds...well i thought it was "Dirty knees....un-der-neath! Dirty knees and dere underneath..."
(it's really "Dirty deeds...done dirt cheap"..)

is that a smiting offence?

There's this song called follow me, and there's a sentence in there that goes: "... like a fish in the sea"
I always thought that it was "... I can pis in the sea" =)

Stefanie