misheard lyrics

Until recently I was convinced Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" opened with "wood was on fire", when it's actually "world was on fire". Sounds better anyway, more dramatic!

Harley

We used to sing Gordon Lightfoot's "Alberta Bound" as "I'll burn the barn."

10-23

Being a huge Michael Jackson fan when I was younger I used to moonwalk around the living room to Billie Jean. I always thought the lyric in the second verse a bit odd - "But who can stand when she's in demand, Hurt squeeze every lens". Of course it's "Her schemes and plans" but I think I preferred it when Billie obviously had a problem with her contacts.

Sam

My friend and I like the music of Elvis very much. But as non-English speakers, we misheard some of the lyrics when we first heard the songs. For example we thought that Elvis sung 'You're the devil in the skies' (Devil in disguise) and 'Come on, sugar' (I'm all shook up). Now we fortunately know the REAL titles...

the Elvis fans

I heard this one song on the radio, and the lyric went "My lovers got no money, he's got his strong beliefs" and I thought it said "My lovers got pnumonia he's got his trumbaleese" How weird does it get?

Jethro

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY-QUEEN... Till a year or so ago i was convinced the line "spare him his life for his MONSTROSETIES" was "spare him his life for his...PORK SAUSAGE TEA!" i always wondered what they meant!!!!!!!!!!!!

jo

Years ago, my little sister was heard in her room, singing: "I knew our love was just a passing phrase" to Ant and Dec's Eternal Love.
It's obviously 'phase' not 'phrase', and we're NEVER going to let her live it down! What a corker!

Claire Bussey

In Van Halen's song "Jump", the line is "I ain't the worst that you've seen." I thought it was, "I eat the words that you sing."

amy j

I can't be the only one who thought that Andy Fairweather Low (think it was him!) was singing My Diamond Necklace instead of Wide Eyed and Legless.....

ellie Stott

Reading a misheard lyric from "You're The One That I Want" on this site, I was reminded of how I misheard the song when I first saw the clip from "Grease" aged 6.

I thought it was called "You're The Wuther The Wuh" ("You are the wuh-the-wuh, ooh-ooh-ooh, honey" etc).

Anon

The song "Blue" by Eiffel 65. Listen really close...are you sure instead of "I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di", it's not "I'm nude, I'm in need of a guy"???? Listen.....

mo

A popular song sometime in the 70s was
Looks Like We Made It (had that line in
it anyway)..I used to think it was Looks
like Tomatos

Brad

i used to think that van halen's panama was called cannonball. it was until i was about 16 that i realized my mistake.

patty

...I thought that in Jailhouse Rock, Elvis was singing "everybody in the wholesale block". And I'm not even Jewish!

MacNutzo

My ex boyfriend to this day sings 'She's a greasy lover' instead of 'She's an easy lover' when he hears that Phil Collins song on the radio. He refuses to believe that those are not the correct words... all I can do is laugh and think "Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!"

Windfire

The sugarbabes 'round round' really sounds like ''..........and we'll ride stirfried on the beat down low...''

the actual words are ''......we'll ride still fired on the beat down low..........''

Anon

AC/DC's Dirty Deed:

I still swear the line "done dirt cheep" was said "Dunder Chief." I thought the Dunder Chief was the one doing dirty deeds.

Moose

I used to think that the lyrics to the song Daddy's Money by Ricochet were "She's a goodbye swisher, a dynamite kisser. Hungry as a turn up free..." when they're really "She's a good bass fisher, a dynamite kisser. Country as a turnip green..." I found out I had it wrong when I was singing with my friend. She thought it was pretty funny!

Dingy-D

I thought the elvis song that goes "Return to Sender address unknown" was "Return September...." I always wondered what september's address was!!

KCA

in the song hakuna matata where timon and pumba sing "it's a problem free
philosophy", I thought they said "it' a
problem Tree Phil and Sophie". I walked
around singing this over and over again
when I was five.

Anon