I used to think the song Cotton Eye Joe Said "where did you come from where did you go where did you go"
NOT where did you come from cotton eye Joe...

I never got where he keeps going and comming. I remember my dads friend had a party with a DJ and my dad tried to explain the whole DJ concept and sent me on my merry way to ask the poor DJ the song I wanted " Where'd you come from" which logically was the name of the song that they constantly say "where'd you come from where'd you go where'd you come from where'd you go" the best was when the guy asked me to sing it cuz he never heard of it.....yea that was bad I was like 13 lol

Anon

I remember argueing with my Dad over the lyrics to I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats when I was 5. I thought the chorus was "I don't like money".

Barbara

I always believed that Kenny Rogers' 'Lucille' went

"you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a box of oatmeal..."

I hated oatmeal and could understand why the children were hungry!

Anon

'til very recently i thought the lyrics to the song 'everyday i write the book' were actually 'everyday i rock the boat', and that the part in madonnas like a prayer that says 'let the choir sing' was 'laugh out quietly'. doesnt make much sense but many songs dont!

bek x

i used to think that "big old jet airliner" song said "big ole ted & eliza". my best friend molly's parents were named ted and eliza so we thought it was so cool that there was a song about them.

shasta, ky

You know that song from the 80's, I can't remember what is was called, but the chorus sang "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you". Well I swore, being 7 years old, that he was singing, "Everyttime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you". I just didn't understand what it had to do with meat!

Jennifer

Hot Chocolate you sexy thing
I thought they said
" I believe in Malcom "

Sarah

I used to believe that the Diana Ross(?) song 'my simple heart' was bicycle hop. I thought it must be a sort of dance.

Meg

I grew up in Whitestone, New York. When Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" would come on the radio, I would sing "I'm a Whitestone cowboooooy....!" much to the chagrin of my mother.

Jen

I always thought that, in that song in Flashdance that goes "Take your passion and make it happen, the lryics went "Take your pants down and make it happen." I got this from my uncle, who used to sing it jokingly, though I didn't know that at the time, when I was very little. I thought this until I was around 13.

Mike Welch

I used to think that a line in a song by Depeche Mode was "Jesus took a pee in the grass." In actually says "Someone to be opressed."

jessica

When I was very young my brother and I used to believe the song by Linda Ronstadt "It's so easy to fall in love" went: "It's so wee-wee to fall in love". We called it the "wee-wee" song and loved singing along with it as loudly as possible whenever it was on the radio. I think Mum and Dad must've thought it was pretty funny because they never corrected us.

sal

When our daughters were little and were singing Jingle Bells when they got to the part of the "one horse open sleigh. one had put in with "a horse with a broken leg" and the other had" a horse with soap on his leg."

Tinkle-Wink

My nephew 'piggy' thought he knew all the words to Meatloafs 'Bat out of Hell', when it came to the words "then like a sinner, before the gates of heaven" came out as "like a swimmer, before the gates of devon" .bless.

bres

"My Sharona' was 'Mice Aroma'
"Where you from, you sexy thing" was "Wave a bra, you sexy thing"
"I've got chills, they're multiplying" was "I've got shoes, they're made of plywood"
and last but not least, "Who loves who the most" was "Hula, hula mo"

Miranda, New Zealand

Sting's song "Message in a Bottle" somehow got garbled into "Message in a Bottomless Pit". I guess I never really actually listened to it--it sounded far more intriguing that way anyway.

Natalya

When I was little there was an oldies song that contained the Lyrics "I'm a girl watcher." I would sing it as "I'm a Whale watcher."

Daniel

I always thought the line which goes "Its been three years since I wrote my note" In "Message in a bottle" - The Police, was "Its been three years since I broke my nose". I think it sounds better like that any way.

Styg o' the Dump

A woman I knew many years ago thought that the name of the song "Vaya Con Dios" was "Bye Bye Cornelius."

C.C.

My wife, despite being told a number of times sings 'Heaven is a half PINT' to the lyrics of OPM's 'Heaven is a half PIPE'

...oh and to ABBA's 'Super Trouper', 9 times out of 10 you will hear from here 'Super-douper'

Matthew