I told my wife recently that she was singing the nursery rhyme 'Pat-a-cake' to my daughter wrong - She kept singing "Pat it and prick it ad mark it with 'B'...".

As my brother's name and my name both begin with 'S' I was convinced until recently that our Mum always sang the line correctly ie "mark it with 'S'.."

I am now 31 and find it amazing that I had this belief ever since I was a child!.

Scott

prince had a red cherry parade, jesus was the lord of the dance setee at some happy
clappy christian house party and pearl jam had a glorified virgin on a pelican. nice.

shelbey

When I was growing up, my best friend was notorious for mixing up song lyrics. Her "alternate renditions" still crack me up! She believed that Pat Benatar's song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" was Hit Me With Your Pants Down"! Pretty racey for a 9 year old... She also thought Barry Manilow's song, "Looks Like We Made It", was "Looks Like Tomatoes".

Baltimore

My boyfriend and I go round and round about REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight"...i think the lyric is "don't even try to wake him up" and he thinks it's "calling Jamaica"...neither of us knows the answer because REM doesn't publish lyrics...

WolfGang

My neice was convinced that the line about 'The girl with kalidiscope eyes' in the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", was actually 'The girl when Kalidis goes by'. I'm not sure who she thought Kalidis was, but she couldn't be convinced otherwise.

Anon

My best friend, when she was young, really liked the song "take my breath away". The thing is, she thought it said "Take my brother Houla"!!

Alexia

In the song 'Yesterday' by the Beatles, the line goes: I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday. I used to believe it went: I said, 'Something wrong?' Now I long for yesterday. It's a small but very important difference.

sal

This honestly wasnt me! Dexys Midnight Runner. at the begining of "Come on Eileen" when he sings "poor old Johnny Ray" my mate thought he sang "Pool Hall Johnny Ray"

Anon

I used to believe the chorus of that song "Barbara Ann" (can't remember the artist)went: Bob bob bob, bob bob-a-ran. I wanted to know where Bob was running to.

Sauerkraut

I was the laughing stock of my family when i was younger whenever i sang along to my favourite 'Paul Young'...in one of his songs there was the line 'whenever you go away, you take a piece of meat with you' or so i thought! I now know that its actually 'part of me' but i think my version is much better!!!

Laura, Dubai

I used to think Pearl Jam's 'Daughter' was "Don't call me, da da da..." as in rhythmic nonsense, wondering at the same time why it was called Daughter. Kinda of silly considering it's meant to be "Don't call me, Daughter, not fit to..." etc. I guess I'm not really fit to listen to it, huh?

Natalya

When I was a teen a friend of mine was a singer in a band. The line in Trooper's "raise a little hell" was changed by her to "praise that little owl". She never figured out why we laughed at her.

RandiHBD

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY-QUEEN... Till a year or so ago i was convinced the line "spare him his life for his MONSTROSETIES" was "spare him his life for his...PORK SAUSAGE TEA!" i always wondered what they meant!!!!!!!!!!!!

jo

Reading a misheard lyric from "You're The One That I Want" on this site, I was reminded of how I misheard the song when I first saw the clip from "Grease" aged 6.

I thought it was called "You're The Wuther The Wuh" ("You are the wuh-the-wuh, ooh-ooh-ooh, honey" etc).

Anon

The song "Blue" by Eiffel 65. Listen really close...are you sure instead of "I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di", it's not "I'm nude, I'm in need of a guy"???? Listen.....

mo

me brothers and I were listening to the radio and mark said, "I don't get it, if he doesn't want her driving his car around, why doesn't he take the keys?" We were listening to Stevie Knicks and Tom Petty, the lyrics are "...stop dargging my 'heart' around...! bah!

fannie

My brother always thought that the line, "My lips are sealed" by the Go-Go's actually said, "Islands of Seals." I still tease him about that.

Wicked

When I heard David Bowie's "Suffragette City" as a teen I thought it was "Surfer Kid City." I wrote that on a tape I made, which I lent to my sister. Years later when we were in our twenties I told her what the real name was and she was irate, saying, "You just ruined that song for me forever."

rebecca

I misheard the line 'a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue' in the Simon & Garfunkel song 'The Boxer'as 'a come-on from the HORSE on Seventh Avenue'. I had seen on TV the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park and believed that the horse felt sorry for the lonely boxer and winked at him to invite him for a carriage ride!


I also heard 'Destination- Bangor, Maine' as 'Destination- back again', probably because I come from a railway town where lots of men drive trains up and down the same stretch of track every day.

Carla- Crewe, Cheshire, UK

Not only did I not know that Smooth Criminal was a Michael Jackson song, I also thought that the cover Alient Ant Farm did of it was actually Weezer.

Of course I also thought the lyrics were, "Andy did you turn gay?" Gave a whole new meaning to who the Smooth Criminal was. Anyway, I really missed it somewhere in there...

Anon