misheard lyrics

I used to think that the chorus from R.E.M.'s 'Stand' said, "Think about your ERECTION, wonder why you have it".
Should have been "Think about your direction...".

That's teenage boys for you.

Andrew

my friend at school thought the beach boys song which goes ‘wish they all could be California girls’ was ‘wish we all could be chipolatas’… and hot chocolates ‘I believe in miracles’ was ‘ I believe in mirror balls’ she was about 14 when she thought this!!!!

steph

I used to think the words in ZZ Top's I'm bad, I'm nationwide was I'm bad, venetian blinds. I thought he was so cool he had blinds on his car.

Anon

When I was about 10 years old,I used to believe the song by The Commitments, Mustang Sally, was actually Mustard Salad,not a good thing to sing in front your class mates.

Jennifer

One day on the way to school, my mom was singing along with the radio to the Beegee's song "More than a Woman", and I heard her say---"Bald-headed Woman, Bald Headed Woman to me", instead of More than a Woman!

Beth

When I was a little girl, I loved watching the movie Grease. My favorite song was one Rizzo would sing..."Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee....Lousy with virginity" Well I always thought it was "Look at me I'm Sandra Dee...I'm from West Virginia, see" My family still likes to tease me about that!

Lori

My brother's used to think that the lyrics to the ZZTop song, Slip inside my Sleeping Bag. was simply, seepoo sypoo seepoo say. I'm not sure where in the world they came up with that one!!!!!

sister nellnell

I used to mishear the Eric Clapton song "Cocaine". Listen how the meaning changes for the want of just one word: "If you want to hang out, you've got to take her out, okay/ If you want to get down, down on the ground, okay/ She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... okay.
I knew about sex by then, so I thought it was about a girl, and that it was okay with her daddy to date her because "she don't lie".

Ana Byrd

me and my friend were listening to Save Ferris's version of Come on Eileen, and we started to sing along. She sang the lyrics "Come on Eileen, whow u smell of chlorine!" instead of "Come on Eileen, oh I swear (well he means)" We were on the floor laughing, and we sing her version instead now because its better!

skankachic

I thought in the opening of gone in 60 seconds the movie the song was bring sally up bring sally down when it was really "Green sally up Green sally down" Ive been singing it wrong until i found it on a lyrics page.

Robbie Starr

I used to believe that 'One more time' by Britney Spears used to be:
'Oh Baven Baven' instead of 'oh baby baby'. My dad said 'It isn't Baven. What's Baven?' I replied with 'Duh! Baven is a Scottish name!' Silly me!

Never_Forget

I grew up on rock and roll, so imagine my surprise when, at 23, I found out that the ACDC song was dirty deeds done dirt cheap and not thirty thieves and the thunder chief

Kate

in the song "i kissed a girl" i used to sing "i kissed a girl her lips were sweet, she was just like kissing meat" insted of "she was just like kissing me". i never understood why meat wasnt sweet.

Anon

on the radio, instead of "I've got chills. they're multiplying," from GREASE, some guy sang "I;ve got shoes, they're made of plywood." well, i guess its no wonder that he's "losing control" :-)

d

My Aunt used to believe that the lyrics that the Bee Gess were singing in "More than a Woman" were, "Bald Headed Woman"

Domo

I read on here that someone misheard the lyrics to Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre... I always thought he was singing about a "Mullicking Tyre" I never thought to ask what "Mullicking" was, I guessed that they obviously made tyres, kinda like Michelin?

Rosey

A friend and I were at the checkout clerk in the local grocery with his 5-year-old son when the George Michael/Elton John song "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" came over the in-store loudspeaker system. At the chorus the lad began belting "Don't let your son go down on me." We were mightily embarassed and had quite a time hushing him amidst the snickers and appalled expressions of the grocery clerks and other customers on-line. It was quite some time before my friend again shopped that grocery.

Shushing Godfather

i dont know what song this was, but there was sometihng like "precious and few are the moments we two can share" and i heard "precious and few are the moments, sweet toucan Cher" i thought of some guy singing it to some female toucan named cher...

Toucan Cher

I wondered WHY and HOW "76 Strong Bones Led The Big Parade" when I was a little girl (song was popular back then). It was much later when I realized it was Trombones!

Michele M, South Bend, IN

When my daughter was about 6 or 7, Ronnie Milsap had a song that said, "You tear my plans apart" she heard and sang it as, "You tear my pants apart."

Oh, my daughter is now 31 (almost) and found your site first. She knows I'm telling this on her.

Gerry Hollingshead