Only recently when I've been listening to ABBA again with my children have I realised that what I thought for years in 'Gimme, gimme, gimme' was "take me to the doctors at the break of the day" is in fact "take me through the darkness at the break of the day".

Anon

In the eponymous song by Cliff Richard, the line goes, 'It's so funny, how we don't talk anymore.' I always thought: "Who's Howie?"

Ben L.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (we don't need no education). The lyric " no dark sarcasm in the classroom" At age 11 I thought they were singing " no Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom"

mudguts

Remember that song by Starship "We Built This City"? My sister and I used to believe that the actual lyrics were "we built this city on ROCKS AND COAL". The true words are "we built this city on ROCK AND ROLL". We still think our version made more sense from a construction perspective...

GO IU!

My friend like listening to (and singing to loudly) soundtracks from Movies. In The Lion King, there is a line in the Song "Akunamatata" that goes "...it's our problem free philosophy..." she would belt out "...it's problem free, for lots of things..."!!

Anon

I used to believe that one of the songs my kindergarten class sang to the American flag every morning had something to do with cake. You know,

"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,
Of the icing (of thee I sing)."

Little Lotte

I used to believe that the Beegees song 'staying alive' was actually called 'stabalise', as in the stabalisers you get for bikes, so i thought they all couldn't ride bikes yet...

Pheeb

Once when I was young I heard a song I don't remember the name on now..but the lyrics was: "The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind..The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind" but I thought it was: "The Ants Are My Friends, Their Blowing In The Wind..The Ants Are Blowing In The Wind" so I went around singing that and everybody made fun of me! xD

Victoria

In that song "Kung Fu Fighting", it says, "Everybody was kung-fu fighting; those kicks were fast as lightning." For the longest time, I thought it said "Those STICKS were fast as lightning." Sticks as in needle sticks, like injections.

This was accompanied by a mental image of little kids kung-fu kicking doctors since they didn't want to get shots. Thus, the doctors had to hurry up "fast as lightning" to give them their shots.
Makes sense to me; I was one of those kids that would scream and kick and cry hysterically when I had to get a shot.
It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I was enlightened to the song's true lyrics! (I like my version better.)

Taylor

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

Another one rides the bus
Another one ride the bus
And another one's gone
And another one's gone
And another one rides the bus

MaryKate

I used to think that Billie Jean Song by micheal jackson went "Billie Jean has got my glove"
But its really "Billie Jean has got my Love"

jonasfan

Near the beginning of the song 'Billy Jean' by Michael Jackson, there's a bit that goes 'Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed'' and I used to think it was 'Then Harry hit her with ice cream'.

MJ fan

Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she

J Scull

I used to think the song that goes "Call me Mr Vain" was "Call me Mr Vein", when I was very young.

I thought it was some stupid medical song designed for kids until I heard the rest of the song many years later.

Natski

I thought the Bon Jovi song went "Shot through the heart and your to blame, you give love a bandaid" because I figured the bandaid covered the shot wound.

Jenna

I used to believe when I was a kid that the lyrics to Elton John's song "Tiny Dancer" was "Hold me closer Tony Danza" because I really liked the sitcom "Who's the Boss?" growing up. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I figured out that was wrong, and to this day I still hear "Tony Danza."

Natalie Turner

The song: Village People’s “Macho Man”

Lyric: Possess the strength and confidence, life's a steal,

I heard “with zesty strip and confidence,” life’s a steal instead

Lyric: He's a special person in anybody's land.

I heard, “he’s a special butt sock” in anybody’s land instead

Anon

I had a cousin who was convinced the first line of "you're the one that I want" [from Grease] was "I got you, them bolts are flying" [it's "I got chills, they're multiplying"] I didn't know what the words were and she was so adamant she was correct I believed her and could actually *hear* "I got you, them bolts are flying" every time I heard the song, until a friend wet herself laughing at me and told me what the words actually are.
I have another cousin who was running around yelling "Hey whatcha doin'" to a familiar tune, I asked what she was singing and she said "winter wonderland", the first line of which is, I corrected her [nicely!], "Sleighbells ring, are you listenin'".
I knew a guy who's nephew thought the Ghostbusters! theme was called "Jack the bastard", none of us could quite figure out why ...

Lobelia Overhill

There's a line in the Michael Jackson / Paul McCartney song that goes like this "Say, Say, Say what you want, but don't play games with my affection". My younger sister used to think it went: "Say, Say, Say what you want, but don't be afraid of my complexion".

Ironic, given Jackson's "complexion" these days!

the older brother

When I was younger i always used to shock my folks by singing Adam & The ants song 'Prince Charming' why were they shocked? well my version was 'prince charming, prince charming, see his goolies they're nothing to be scared of' instead of 'ridicule is nothing to be scared of' oops

Aiden Quinn