When I was little, my father sang a cute little song, "Mares Eat Oats". I thought the words were like this: Maresy dotes and dosey dotes and little lambsy divey, a kiddlee divey too, wouldn't you?

Nancy M.

I used to believe that in the song "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John that instead of "A peace of mind my daddy never had" that he was saying "A piece of mama daddy never had"

Sue

song recently in charts "lazy", my friend thought he was singing "im ricky
iglesias".enricos brother maybe.

NIKKI

My sister thought Blur were singing "Apartheid" , when what they were actually singing was "Park life".

Debbie

Re: Wolfgang - I thought REM sang ""Call me tarwaychener"
- which would be some kind of Irish name, perhaps, I guess,
but thats what I thought.

But I`m told its

"call me til I waken up"

hikermike

1) I thought the Pink Floyd's wall went as "No dogs or cats in the classroom" instead of "no dark sarcasm...."
2) And that ACDC's "dirty deeds done dirt cheap "went there it is thunder cheif"?

anon

When I was younger I used to think that Sister Sledge sang 'Just let me staple the vicar' in We Are Family, in fact they sang just let me state for the record

John McKee

My friend seriously believed the Vengaboys songs 'We're going to Ibiza' went 'Whoa! We're going to have a pizza...'!!!

Tina

When i was younger i thought that the lyrics to Micheal Jackson's smooth criminal was "Hayley are you o.k, are you o.k Hayley"

I used to sing it to my sister, as it was her name.

zoe

My friends brother (being the grunge rock god that he is) thought that Nirvana sang "I'm made of lizard breath" instead of "I need an easy friend" he performed and sang that at a school concert!

Chuckles

It was only recently as I was driving with my relatively new boyfriend that I found out I had been getting the words to Baa Baa Black sheep wrong all my life. Not in one place but in three!! I had been singing:
Baa baa black sheep, have you anymore (any wool)?
Yes sir, yes sir 3 bags four (full)
One for the master, one for the day (dame)
And one for the little boy that lives down the lane.

Sarah J

My 3 year old daughter sings the Attomic Kitten song "The tide is high" Her way is "The tidiest house im moving on".Cant wait until her Twenty first.

Shar nz

FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER THE SONG " DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY" SOUNDED LIKE " DO IT JUST LIKE A LADY" DOESN'T MINE MAKE MORE SENSE? ALSO THE SONG WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN I THOUGHT WAS WHEN A MAN LOVES A WALNUT!

JANE

when I first heard the song "Strange Brew" by Cream I thought they were singing "Strange Prune" - I have no idea why...

steve

When my husband was small he wondered what muching for money was.
As in the Beatles song 'I don't care too much for money - money can't buy me love'!

Karen

Don't actually know the name of the song - but the lyrics "wide eyed and legless" escaped me for years. I though the guy was singing "my diamond necklace" for years before I realised my mistake!

Anon

The song with the lyrics - "secret sign of love" was "secret xylophone" which never made any sense. This song was out in the early ninties and I only found out the real lyrics when my girlfriend told me the other day. I'm 22.

Anon

The first time I heard Enigma's "Age of Loneliness," I thought I heard "Take it, take it in your a**." I knew that couldn't be right, but still, that's how it sounded. I told my now-husband on our second date, and after laughing his head off, he informed me it was "Take it, take it in your hands." I suppose that makes a little more sense.

LTM

"Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light..."

How enlightened of our forefathers to include Mexican-Americans in our national anthem!

Anon

Something funny happened to me and my mom driving home from the mall about a month ago, when the song "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner" came on the radio in the car. I realized already that this was a very commonly misheard song (and with good reason), but was pretty sure I had the right lyrics. So come the chorus, my mom and I (who had not been singing along to the rest of the song) sang two different lines. Mind you, my own came out very loudly as I was trying to sound like an idiot. I guess I got more than I bargained for:

My mom: "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner"
Myself: "BINGO JED HAD A LIGHTER!!"

I am laughing so hard right now I can hardly type properly. I swear to god, listen to the song and sing that lyric along to it, it sounds exactly like that. I still sing it like that because it's so much funnier.

Caitlin from Canada