I thought "Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy" was Maresie doats and dozie doats and little lambsie divey. I just figured it out about 5 years ago and I'm 54. Little slow on the uptake!

Old and Stupid

Simon and Garfunkle "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" says:
You dont have to be coy Leroy

I thought it said:
You dont have to be corduroy (like the pants or the kids book)

Stephanie

Remember the song "Dirty Deeds"? I used to sing it "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief". When the song came on the radio last year, I asked my husband what on earth they were saying because by then I figured out that maybe "Thunder Chief" didn't make much sense. I still sing it wrong.

Another one: "Hey little thing let me light your candle 'cause momma I'm sure I'm Don Henley now".

one confused girl

Me and my friends were making fun of the song "Collide". and instead of singing "When you and I... Collide" we would sing, "When you and I... and Clyde" Well, my one friend sang it that way when she was listening to it on the radio with her mom, and now her mom thinks that's how it goes, so now her mom sings about clyde all the time!

Anon

When I was young, naive, and didn't know every rock band smoked something I thought "Don't fear the reaper" was "Don't feel the reefer."

Stupid reefer...

i had always known that jesse mccartney's song was called "beautiful soul", but somehow i never made the connection...i always thought that he sang "i want you and you're beautiful, so..." i like the song but why the so? i just figured out like a week ago that it's "your beautiful soul".

look at the title!

there is a song..i don't know by whom. but the chorus is like..." it's a violent pornography. choking chicks and sodomy" my stupid boyfriend thought it was.." it's a violent pornography. drunken chicks inside of me" he is so cute.

katie

One time me and my mom were driving in the car and i was listening to "pawn shop" by sublime, i think. And she flipped out and turned it off because she thought it had said "down here at the porn shop" instead of "down here at the pawn shop"

haha porn shop

The song "American Pie" by Don McLean has the lyrics:

"While Lenin read a book of Marx..."

I thought it was:

"While Lennon read a book of marks..."
Something about John Lennon and a tally sheet or something.

I also thought the next line, instead of "...dirges in the dark" was "Sturgis in the dark", because my dad was a Harley enthusiast.

It also took me awhile to realize that the song was about Buddy Holly (man, alot of people post about him on here).

Amy

one of my favorite aunts thought the lyrics to the song VOLARE was..."..oh lordy, oh oh.."

jim

My friend used to think where it says, "making spirits bright," in jingle bells was:
"making pirates rise."

and about three seconds ago, she thought it was, "making spirts rise," and i thought it was, "making spirits high,"
very much to our surprise, we were BOTH wrong!! hahaha

J master and 'J' lexie

when i first heard kelly clarksons miss independant i thought the chorus went

what happened to my cinnamin bun

but it really went
what happened to miss independant

KeLsIe n AsH RoX 06

when i was a kid, my grandma used to wash my hair for me and she used to sing "Today" to me. it so happened that the shampoo i was using then was "wella blassom", so for a long time, I thought my grandma was praising the shampoo since i mistook "Today, while the blossoms" as "today, wella blassom"

Erin

My sister and I have always loved to sing in the car - and in the early 80's when we used to sing along to the song "True" by Spandau Ballet (from 16 candles soundtrack), we thought it said

I no dis machis choo (in the chorus)
when it really says "I know this much is True"

tb

In the early 90's my aunt Chris thought that the song by EMF entitled "Unbeleivable" really said -
You're ugly boy
where it says "You're unbelievable, OH!"
hahahaha

tb

In the movie "The Little Mermaid," when Ariel sings the song "I Want to be Where the People Are," there is a line that actually goes "bright young women, sick of swimming, ready to run."

I used to think they were saying, "Pregnant women sick of swimming ready to run."

Kelly Dowlin

In the song "Summer Nights" from Grease, when they said "Tell me more, tell me more.", I thought they really said "Tell me boy, tell me boy."

I thought it was strange that the female voices sang "Tell me boy, tell me boy, like, does he have a car?"...

Amanda

My name is Martin. When me and my brother heard Year 3000 by Busted, one of the members, James had sang "went out to the back yard to find out if it was one of those rowdy boys". My brother heard it as "went out to the back yard to find out if it was one of those Martin boys" and thought i was being referred to.

Martin

RHCP- scar tissue

"with birds I share this lonely view"

I always thought it said with birds and shed it's alone with you

me

My parents used to listen to country music all of the time so I knew most songs that came onto the radio. I was convinced that the lyrics to David Lee Murphy's "Dust on the Bottle" said "don't let it fool ya, my wife's inside" instead of "don't let it fool ya, about what's inside"

Anon