When I was about 5, I misheard the Frankie Vallie song "My Eyes Adored You" as "My Eyes of Gerogia" That was much too funny to my mother and she never let me forget my error. A few years later when Neil Diamond did the song "Forever In Blue Jeans" she thought she could trick me by singing it as "For Reverand Blue Jeans" but I never fell for it. I'm 38yo now and she still occasionally reminds me of it and she told my husband the story so he does it too. He's a dj so you can imagine the fun he has with misheard lyrics.

Anon

My sister and I heard an old track of our dad's in which we assumed it was 'Love slap, la la, love slap, love slap.' We couldn't figure out why people were slapping each other in a loving way.

I was never love slapped.

When I was little, I used to sing along to the Paul Simon song, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover :
"Slip out the back Jack
Make a new bandstand
Don't need to be cordroy
Just just listen to me"
How was I to know that he said,
"Make a new plan Stan
Don't need to be coy Roy",
and that the whole song was about splitting up... although the title should have given it away. I just liked the idea of building a bandstand and not having to wear cordoy

zebra

I used to think that in the Fatboy Slim song 'Funk Soul Brother', instead of 'Check It Out Now, Funk Soul Brother' it said 'Check It Out Now, Vauxhall Nova'

Tom

In 1963, an album came out called SUNNY SIDE, by The Kingston Trio. It included the group's last top-40 hit, "Desert Pete". Like many of their albums, it also included one rousing spiritual-type song, in that case a song called "Sing Out". One verse of "Sing Out" sounded, I thought, Like this:

Wake up to the trumpet sound.
I'm from the Great Shellai,
To see the chap with the glory crown
Uphill from flaming sky.

Years later, thanks to internet lyrics sites, I've been able to determine that the real lyrics are:

Wake up to the trumpet sound.
I from the grave shall rise
To see the judge with the glory crown,
A view from flaming sky.

I grew up in a not-so-religious family, so I generally expected to hear unfamiliar concepts in hymns and spirituals. I thought that "the Great Shellai" must be some religious concept that I didn't know due to my lack of much formal religious upbringing. It seemed intriguingly romantic and I hoped to learn what it was someday. I grew to be one of those kids who, in difficult situations would pray sometimes, even though I had formally learned little about prayer. I actually sometimes prayed to "God in the Great Shellai". I hope that never gave offense to anyone! As I grew up and learned more about religious matters I guess I was a bit disappointed to have to accept that "the Great Shellai", for all its intriguing sound, is probably utterly meningless!

Kirsten

Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Kill hitch-hikers on the highway.
Tie them up with strips of linen
"Who's the Boss," is what you say.

Too embarassed to leave a name

For years I 'misheard' Madonna's 'Erotic'and thought she was begging 'Hey Roddy, hey Roddy, put your hands all over my body'. Lucky guy that Roddy.

Chump

i used to think that the song "santa baby", had the lyrics "be an afful good girl santa baby" insted of "iv been an afful good girl"
you can imagin how red i was wen my friend told me the real words to the song. the most cringin thing about it is that i only found out last chirtsmas (2004) so all the times i sung it before i guess people wer just been nice.

santas little helper

One of the "granny's" living on my street heard my transistor radio playing "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky". She wanted to know why anyone would write a song about "My Baby Has a Dirty Hanky!"

Annelee

When my uncle was very young he suddenly stopped singing in the middle of "My Country Tis of Thee", looked at his mother and asked,"So just where IS Tis of Thee anyway?"

Carole Preble

When my daughter was a pre-teen the song "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers was popular. She always thought the line, "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille - four hungry children and a crop in my fields." was "four hundred children ....."! She used to say, "That's really dumb - NOBODY has 400 children!"

Carole Preble

On pink's song God Is A DJ, I thought that it said 'God is a DJ, life is an a**hole' until i read this site and found out it's actually 'god is a DJ, life is a dancefloor', oops!

Jesi

This wasn't that long ago, but at a sleepover my friends and I were singing Just Lose It by Eminem and the part where he goes "Ahh, Dre, beer goggles blind" I thought it was "Ahh, Drake, beer bottles go flying!" We still crack up to that today.

Liz and Laura and Katey

My friend told me that for a long time she thought that the Rolling Stones song "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" was really "I Can't Get No Bitch in Action". Her version of it is actually better than the real one, it sounds more rock and roll.

Sailor Nightcrawler

Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"

WailerMan

When I was little, I used to think the words to one of the songs in Cinderella were "Sink weed nightengale" when they are actually "Sing sweet nightengale"

Sarah

At the end of the song"Please don't go" which came out in the 80's, I thought they were saying Pizza Dough. Now when I hear that song with my kids, I still sing pizza dough and we all laugh.

Anon