Jamiroquai's song "canned heat" actually says "Hey got canned heat in my heals tonight baby" but me and my best mate used to sing "ive got candy in my heels tonight big ben" and we had awful dance moves to go along with it where we would point to the heels of our shoes...eeek

Alex

This is a true Mondegreen:

"When the jasmine sets afire, the faceless man's relieved."
Years later, I discovered that it was "When the jazz man testifies, the faithless man believes." It made a little more sense then.

Anon

I was sitting next to my nephew, who's 8, at dinner and I could hear him singing very quietly to himself. When I asked him what he was singing, he sang louder : the bee gone gone, the bee gone gone. I was totally bewildered until I caught on to the tune. It was sonny and cher, the beat goes on. He flatly refused to believe me when I told him he had the lyrics wrong :) It stuck in my head for days, the bee gone gone, the bee gone gone ... Uh oh.

Anon

Even as a kid I liked classical music, but was convinced that all operas were written in Spanish. Well, I knew they weren't in english, and what with Carmen's bullfighters, Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, Don Carlos and others it seemed logical. I could never work out "Figaro" though - Figaro was Gepetto's cat in the Disney film "Pinocchio", and never sang a note in any language that I could remember.
At least I did better than the little lad who, when asked by his operatic parents what his favourite aria was answered, "The one about elephant's ears". This puzzled them for ages until they heard "La donna e mobile" from "Rigoletto", by a singer also with poor knowledge of italian - catch the last line -yep, easily taken for "elephant's ears"!

Swanny

Up until I was about 12 or 13 I thought this was strange. Jimi Hendrix didn't seem to be gay to me but I thought well musicians could say anything they wanted. I just thought it was weird that he would say 'scuse me--while I kiss this guy' ??

judd

When I was in grade 2 my french immersion class had to sing "o Canada" in french every morning. I was supposed to sing "Car ton bras sait porter l'épée...." ("because you know how to carry a sword") but i always said "Carton bas et rose, le poupée..." which really means "Low pink carton, the doll.." I never knew why a doll had helped in founding our country. I assumed that the first Canadian flag had been drawn on a big piece of pink carton. I only found out i had been saying it wrong in grade 7.

Ansleah

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

i used to think in the lion king song hakuna matata they were saying:
"its our motto, see, we'll also be hakuna matata"

Anon

I used to think that in the song "Tiny Dancer," instead of saying "Hold me closer tiny dancer," they were actually saying "Hold me closer Tony Danza."

Kelly Dowlin

when i was young i thought that the AC/DC song dirty deeds was "dirty Dees and the Thunder Chief"
about a bad guy called dirty dees who got in trouble with god.

april

I used to think that "I'm blue da ba dee da ba di" was "I'm blue I will bleed I will die" I was a morbid child...

Tori

Remember Xanadu, that movie that came out in the 80's? In the song they go: "Xanadu, Xanadu, now we are here in Xanaduuuuu", at 8 I went with my teenage sister to the movies, thought they sang "Xanadu Xanadu, show me your ears".

tinkerbell

While driving in the car with my friend a couple of years ago, "Play the Funky Music, White Boy." was playing, but I was always under the impression the it was "Play that Funky Music, Wise Guy." Ya, I've never been able to live it down she till laughs about it until this day.

lyricallydisfunctional86

In Paul Simon's song, "Still Crazy After All These Years", I used to think the line, "And I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers" was "And I would not be caught dead wearing jewelry in my ears."

Mary Ellis

I used to believe that the lyric to Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols was
'I wanna destroy Piss supply'
the actual lyric is 'I wanna destroy passerby'

Stupid Arsed Fairy Man

In the Green Day song, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," when the singer says, "Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me," I thought he said "Sometimes I wish a grizzly bear will find me."
:)

Claudia

My younger brother Jack was born in Mosside in Manchester in the early eighties. A few years later, ther Eurythmics released the song 'Thorn in my side'. My brother went round singing "Born in Mosside, You know thats all you ever were", thinking the song was about him...

Dennis

We use to have to sing that song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" in elementary school. It troubled me everytime, because I swore that the song said "My Body Lies Over the Ocean." It's really kind of scared me.

Bri

i used to think the song dont cry for me argentina said 'the truth is i never loved you' when the real lyrics are 'i never left you'

*georgie*