misheard lyrics

in the green day song 'holiday' then at one point it says something like "critisize your governments" but i used to think it said "critisize your girlfriend's mints"
lol.

Anon

When I was a teenager my friend's brothers-ages 8-9- thought that Eric Clapton's "Lay down Sally" was "Make a salad".it didn't matter that the next words were "and rest you in my arms" Still today when I hear the song I will sometimes hum to myself ".. make a salad" to see if I can * hear* what they heard.

JEM

From time to time I find myself humming or singing a tune from the Roches I heard thirty years ago. I've searched high and low for this song only remembering the lyrics "If I take you to heaven, will you ever come down". I have searched the Roches discography, I've plugged lyric searches into search engines, I even asked various forums over years. But I've never found the song. I'd resigned myself to thinking the song was on some one-off collection I'd never find.

So today I popped in a Roches greatest hits collection I just purchased to hear a song I do know, and out comes THE tune I've been losing brain cells over for all these years. Except they're singing "If you go down to Hammond, will you ever come back".

I think the Roches are laughing at me right now.

WailerMan

I used to think that the Eagle's song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Pike in the Bass Lane."

Quilla

Whenever I heard the song 'You gotta be' by Des'Ree, I thought she sang 'You've got a big bag, you've got a big boat, you've got a big Visa, you've got a big heart, you've a big tuft..' instead of 'You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser, you got a be hard you gotta be tough' I had always thought it was the song to the Visa credit card commercial!

Sunny

The TV show The Jeffersons was popular when I was about 4. Here are the lyrics my little mind thought were being sung:
Well we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut,
To a pizza apartment in the sky,
Movin on up,
To Pizza Hut,
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Beans don't burn in the kitchen,
Beans don't burn on the grill,
Took a whole lot of her and him,
Just to get up that hill.
Zowie up in the big league,
Guess my turn is next,
Along with sweet lips,
It's you and me, baby,
Ain't nuthin' wrong with us.
Hey, we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut.........

Glor

When I was younger I used to think that the song line "Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy" in Yankee Doodle Dandy was "Someday when you're walking by the girls may come in handy."

loli

I thought Robert Palmer was singing, "She's a man, there's no other way to go!" in Simply Irrisistable.

The correct lyric is "She's all mine, there's no other way to go".

Sin D

I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.

Anon

I used to believe the song lyrics from Eiffel 65's song Blue went :

I'm blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-di
If I was green I would die da-ba-dee-da-ba-di
Aberdeen are so shite da-ba-de-dee-da-ba-di
If I was green I would die da-ba-dee-da-ba-di

Yeah, the first line was right. I think the lyrics can be attributed to the fact that my family are Rangers Football Club supporters, and I heard my uncle singing the song, so when I heard it on the radio, I naturally assumed my uncle's lyrics were the correct ones. How wrong I was.

I also got into trouble singing it at my school disco. It was at Primary school, and there were Celtic supporters (i.e the green half of Glasgow).

Massive footballing rivalries such as Rangers v Celtic always cause a lot of fighting, thank God my singing didn't cause some.

Dancing Penguin

In Daniel Powter's song Bad day I could've sworn he said "Sit your butt down ". but really he said 'take a walk down " or something like that. But I thought Daniel Powter was rude for someone who had a bad day to "sit their butt down "

Anon

My friend and I went to see the play "South Pacific" and there's a song talking about racism and how it's not natural, that people are "carefully taught" to be so.

Well, my friend thought they were singing "You must be careful, E. Tawt" as if it was a warning to a certain Mr. E. Tawt.

After clarifying what the song was really saying, I asked her who she thought E. Tawt was... she answered..."I didn't know! That's why I was sooo confused!"

Lars

Everyone know the Macy Grey song that was a hit long time ago ["I try"], well I thought it said
"SI try to say goodbye to Machoke"
Pokémon being really popular at the time too, made me think that she was saying goodbye to Machoke.

Maryse

my dad told me that when he was a kid a song came out that went ' Denise , Denise', Denise , Denise.
He used to think it was ' beneath the knees , beneath the knees ' . He used to wonder how you could just love a woman beneath the knees.

Heather

i used to think the song line, 'i can see clearly now the rain has gone' actually said 'i can see deidrie now lorraine has gone' lucky blighter.

ky parker

Thanks in part to that Simpsons episode, I used to believe that the lyrics to the B*rry M*nilow song went: "Oh Mandy, you came and you gave me cold turkey".

Mmmm... cold turkey

This is about my friend. He's a bit odd, so we thought he was just being goofy, till someone who didn't know him told him its different.

The song is 'shake it like a salt shaker' by the ying yang twins. The chorus of the song is also 'shake it like a salt shaker'.

Kevin thought the song was called 'shake it like a sausage'. He even made up a dance for it (you can imagine what that was..lol)

He honestly thought that 'shake it like a sausage' is how the song went until like 5 diff. girls at the club told him he was wrong.

We still tease him about it every time we hear that song. Try to get him to do his dance too. He still thinks that the songs better his way! :)

Kevins friend...

My husband told me once that when he was a kid he misunderstood a line from the Fleetwood Mac song "Second Hand News".

Real lyrics: I'm just second hand news...
He thought it was: I'm just standing here nude

When my son was small he thought BTO was "taking care of biscuits" instead of "taking care of business."

Anon

My brother once asked my why, in her song "Lucky," Britney Spears sings, "She fly, fly, flies in her lonely car." I just looked at him, burst into laugher, and shouted, "It's, 'cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart,' you idiot!"

Elise Masur

that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*

oi