misheard lyrics

In the nursery rhyme that goes "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily...." I used to think life was a "custard cream" and not "but a dream". I always thought a custard cream life sounded so cool.

Caroline

Up until a few years ago, the christmas song 'Jingle Bells' never made sense to me as i thought the line "one horse open sleigh" was "one horse soap and sleigh". I never understood why there was soap in the sleigh.

Boydy

I used to think Boy George's Karma Chamelon went come-a come-a come-a come-a come a camelia (I thought it was weird wanting to be a flower)

A guy I work with just told me that in Madonna's La Esa Bonita that he always thought the words Young girl with eyes like the desert was Young girl with eyes like potatoes... huh?

My best friend and I always sing the Venga Boys song We like to party as Feet like to party (It makes sense!!) and also in the same song when they sing The Venga bus is coming we always thought it was The finger bus is coming.... (To join the partying feet maybe?)

Yeah I know I'm a weirdo...

jinnee

When I heard "my lover has got no money he has got his strong beliefs" I thought they said, "lover has got no money, he has got his trombone leased!!!"

The Raven

I was a fully functioning adult when I heard this one.. there's a nifty Van Morrison song which says: "And we walked the pagan streams". But I was hearing "And we walked the pig in strings", which puts a whole other slant on Celtic mysticism.

david

When I was a young girl, my mother used to sing "You are my Sunshine" to me as a lullaby. She died when I was 8, and because she had been sick for a few years, I hadn't heard her sing it to me since I was probably around 4 or 5. Well, one summer, I found my old crib mobile music box, which played the song. While I remembered the first verse, I couldn't remember the second. On the long trip to college, I finally asked my dad, "Daddy? How's the second verse of 'You are my Sunshine' go? All I know is that it's about steak." "Steak? There's no steak in that song." That's when I found out that I was mishearing the phrase "When I awoke dear, I was *mistaken*", and had been assuming it was about steak.

Jen P.

When I was little, I always thought the song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by AC/DC was actually "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief" and it was about a wrestler. "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief...Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief"

Goody

I used to think that the song "blinded by the light" had a verse in it that said "stunk up like a douch and a rubber in the night" now i can hear the lyrics more clearly i think it says"stuck out like an illusion in the middle of the night" who knew? my husband thought the same thing...

nanci

In "God Bless America" I thought the ocean was WIDE with foam. I also believed that in "Joy to the World" the Lord was CALM.

Susan Smith

my friend Carol thought that the Shania Twain song was "And when I cook him dinner in a Barney hat" instead of "When I cook him dinner and I burn it black"

Carol's friend

The chorus of REM's song "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" repeats the line "Coming in to wake her up" and not my long held belief that it was "Covered in jamaican rum"

Fitze

"I'm walking in Memphis.
I'm walking with my feet in the feet of a bear..."

Anon

Remember the Aerosmith song. Dude looks like a lady. When i was young i thought that it was "do the f****** lady." fun stuff fun stuff

Anon

When I was younger, my parents used to listen to the german group Kraftwerk. The song "Autobahn" went "Fahren, fahren, fahren an der Autobahn." I was told not to use swearwords, and was really shocked when they listened to this song! I thougt they were singing "Faen, faen, faen on the Autobahn."

-Faen is a norwegian word you can translate to something like "damn", "fuck it", or "hell"...

Sita

When I was 9 or 10 I heard Nena's "99 Red Balloons (or Luft Balloons)" for the first time. I thought on one part it said "99 decision trees" instead of "99 decision street." I also had a lot of other beliefs about the lyrics in this song. When she said, "You and I in a little toy shop" I thought she said "You and I and a little toshou" thinking that toshou was some foreign word for child or dog. My last one is when it says "panic bells, it's red alert" I thought she said, "panic birds, it's red alert." Until I looked the lyrics up, I had always wondered what a decision tree was, what language "toshou" was, and what birds had to do with the 3rd world war. :)

A Confused Toshou

In the song Baby one more time by Britney Spears, theres this line:
Tell me baby cuz I need to know now, what be cause.
Well my younger sister was convinced those weren't the words and would sing at the top of her lungs:
Tell me baby cuz I need to know now,
WHOOPIE CUSHION!

Amy W.

My mother was talking about this annoying song that was always played at the fitness centre. I asked her how it went and she said... "I don't know...I just remember this one part 'leeeett your haiiirr down...'"
I recognized the tune about a minute later- Where's your Head at by Basement Jaxx! A little different from what she thought!

Heather H

theres a verse in the song crash into me by dave matthews band that kinda had me baffled, cuz i thought he was saying im king of the castle and i'm in love with an asshole. but he was really saying and you're a little rascal. sadly i only just found this out the other day when i was singing while having headphones on. not only was i singing it wrong, but it was waaaay off key :)

(: not actually tone deaf :)

In the song "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma, I used to wonder what was so wonderful about corn that was as high as an elephants eye. I didn't think that an elephants could have an eye that was more than two inches high.

vina

When I was little, I thought the song that goes "Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married" went "Goin' to the Jack-o-lantern, gonna get married"... Who knows, maybe some people want to get married on Halloween?

Anon