misheard lyrics

I used to think that the lyrics to REM's Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight were:

Calling Cherly Baker

when it is actually:

Call me when you try to wake her up

Jayne

When I was younger, I thought that John Berry's "She's Takin' A Shine" was really "She's takin' a shower" and would sing it this way at the top of my lungs in the car.

Pigtails

Believe that the Star-Spangled Banner said "The bombs bursting in air, they blew through the night but our flag was still there.

Anon

In the song "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller Band, the line is "big old jet airliner, don't carry me too far away" but what I heard was "big old Jed and Alina...." and in my mind these were two giants who were going to be kidnapping someone.

Camie

I used to believe that the ABBA song Waterloo was about the train line in London, before realising, due to the lyrics, that I was actually about the historical battle!

Natasha

I was quite grown up when Irish punk group Stiff Little Finger had a tune (forgot the name) which ends with the singer repeatedly singing “scream whenever you hear this tone”. To me it sounded like “scream banana you’re in his toe”.

Anders

I use to think in the Madonna song "La Isla Bonita", Madonna sang "Last night I dreamt of salt bagels" instead of "Last night I dreamt of San Pedro".�

DarkDan�

I was about four when the Beatles released "Can't Buy Me Love." It was the first rock 'n roll song I remember hearing.

I thought the lyrics leading up to the chorus were "I don't care to bump the money, money can't buy me love."

I had no idea what bumping the money meant.

'duardo

boys II men song, down on bended knee...
they say, stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me.
i thought they were saying, stomp on your fingers! hahha

mary

When I was at university I bought a single called 'Inbetweener'by the now defunct band Sleeper. Louise sang a line which I firmly believed went:

"He dreams of a Roller, She dreams of a basket to weigh."

I understand now that the last section of this was actually "She dreams of a fast get away". All power to basket weighing!

Simon W

My sister always got the lyrics to songs wrong. For the longest time she thought the Eagles' song Witchy Woman was really saying "Oooh ooh Wind-chilly Woman!"

Alice Delventhal

My sister used to think that the lyrics in the theme tune to Neighbours went "with a little bit of stanley" instead of "a little understanding"!

Anon

Given that I really loved music as a child, I inevitably developed some rather unusual beliefs about certain songs. I really thought that �Wig Wam Bam� by The Sweet was really about wig wams and that it was about one that was by a river since the song mentions something about standing by water. My mother raised us on Queen and there is a song called �Killer Queen.� I had the video of The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe so it was obvious�the song had to be about the evil Snow Queen! :P How did I back this up? Well, I misheard one of the lines as �she keeps a mole and a shovel in her pretty cabinet.� I figured that the mole was still in stone cos Aslan had yet to free it! The true line is �she keeps a Moet et Shandon in her pretty cabinet.� Champagne IS a more sensible item I guess. ;) The famous �Bohemian Rhapsody� gave rise to a funny one. I misheard part of it as �open your eyes look up to the sky and heave� and I concluded that it must be partially to do with being sick and thought that the boy in the song was not only on trial for shooting someone but for puking on a policeman! The way their heads spun around eachother on the video also seemed to suggest that they felt dizzy and sick. Needless to say that I never wanted to barf on a bobby! :P

Ocean-Sirius

My brother's name is Shane. When he was little, our mother used to listen to the soundtrack of "Fame" a lot -- & whenever the title song played, he thought they were saying, "SHANE! I'm gonna live forever..."

Daile

My mom, her friends, and I were talking one day about how songs paint a picture in your head. We were listening to an oldies station and a song came on that goes "As I write this letter I send my love to you..." and my mom asked me what picture came into my head. I replyed a cowboy riding into the sunset. I had no clue why she looked so confused until she asked me to sing what I just heard: "As I ride the saddel I send my love to you..."
She still pickes on me about that

Kara

In the song "American Pie" I'm sure you know it, there is a part in the song where they sing "they were dancing in the gym" and my mother used to think they were saying "chin-to-chin" instead of "in the gym." And this was recently!!!

Anon

When I was young, I always thought the Bangles song 'walk like an Eygptian' was 'walk like a midget' my aunt actually explained it when I was doing the dance and singing it, I still get teased about that.

Anon

my mum used to think that the macy gray song went 'i try to say good-bye and achooo' (as in a sneeze!) until i corrected her that it was 'and i choke' man was she red-faced!

SingShira

when i was in first grade we would sing songs at the beginning of the day and one was "my bonnie lies over the ocean" and i thought bonnie was bunny and i thought someone loved their bunny very much

Anon

When Kula Shaker released that song called 'Gurvinder' or something, my dad used to sing the names of our next door neighbours. I used to believe they were the real lyrics and was really surprised a really famous band had made a song up about my next door neighbours!

I really was a sad child