In the song "Green Grow the Rushes O" I thought - all through my childhood up until in my twenties - that the line 'Four for the Gospel makers' was 'Four for the Golf ball makers' ... never thought to question it . . .

lucidlupin

Remember that song "Shake, Rattle & Roll"? When I was a child, I heard the lyrics as "Shake Marilyn Monroe, I said shake Marilyn Monroe!"

Could just picture it, too...shaking her by the shoulders, and her kind of giggling...

dbigtex56

A while back, The Wallflowers had a popular song on the radio, it was called "One Headlight."
The (real) chorus goes: "But me and Cinderella, put it all together."
One day, while in the car with 4 of my friends, that song came on. I began to sing it at the top of my lungs. When the chorus came (and I was belting it out) my friends started hysterically laughing. They asked me to sing the chorus, and being the good sport that I am, I obliged. I sang, "The incinerator, put it all together." They actually had to pull the car over because they were laughing so hard! They never corrected me, instead they would ask me to sing it for whoever we knew. I thought that they were impressed by my singing voice.
Later, they told me the truth. They had allowed me to make a fool of myself for nearly a year! What's that old saying? "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"

Anon

in the song "show me heaven" i used to sing "make me breakfast" instead of "leave me breathless"

Anon

is it just me or are the words 2 Macey gray ''try to say goodbye and i choke, try to walk away and i stumble, though i try to hide it its clear, i wear GOGGLES when you are not here' Listen. i think you'll find I'm right. Also a friend of mine was once convinced that the words to 'gangsters paradise' were infact 'and the day has just been top of the pops' instead of 'living in a gangsters paradise.' god only knows...

suga_plumziz

Billy Jean is not my mother
Just a girl who says that "I am your mom"
But the chair is not my son ....

If anyone wants to interpret that for me, it'd be much appreciated

Jimmy

As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s, I loved Madonna.

Only, her songs sometimes confused me.

Vogue, for instance was puzzling.

I really couldn't fathom why she was singing about gum disease. ("Gingivitus, dance on air... ") Turns out she was ACTUALLY singing about Ginger Rodgers. ("Ginger Rodgers, dance on air...") Hmmm... Good to know.

Incidentally, "dance on air" could have easily been legionnaire's. I briefly considered re-making the song into a song about different diseases. Thankfully, I didn't have that much spare time.

Kasey, from Michigan

When I was little, I went to camp for a week. We sang songs every night, and I remember one in particular... part of the lyrics go, "And my father wants me wed..." (as in married). Well, I always heard- and sang- "And my father wants me dead..." One of the counselors overheard me and thought I had, and I quote, "some kind of problem."

Katie

This is the absolute funniest, I swear!
When I was younger (@5-20 years old) I thought the lyrice to Pink Floyds "The Wall" were "The Dukes of Hazzards in the classroom." I later realized from @ age 20 on that this didn't make sense and somehow reasoned that the real lyrics must be "The doctors have us in the classrooms." Since then I kept this new belief along with my funny tale of misheard lyrics which I submitted to this site 10 minutes ago. Well, about 8 minutes ago, I found out that my "corrected" version was wrong too. It's actually, "No dark sarcasm in the classroom." LOL!

nicolette

when i was about 10 i thought the words to the song were 'we built this city on sausage roll' instead of 'we built this city on rock n' roll'

anon

When I was about 5 or 6, I used to think the song 'Beauty and the Beast' was really 'Beauty and the Beef'.

Natski

When I heard Kenny Rogers' "Lucille" I misheard "Four Hungry children, not a crop in the field". I would dance with my dad and sing "Four hundred children and a cow and an eel."

Sandra

In Nelly's song "Hot in Herre" he says "I'm looking for the right time to shoot my seed", ie masturbation. Well, when the song came out I was 10 and didn't know what that was, and I heard "I'm looking for the right time to shoot my steed". As I loved horses, I thought it was terrible that Nelly would want to shoot one.

Katie

When I was little, the song "How Bizarre" by OMC was really popular. And I always thought he said "cruising down the freeway in my hot croissant".
I had weird images of the guy and his whole band driving a giant pastry roll thing.

Katie

My mum always thought (and, sadly, still thinks) that the song "smoke gets in your eyes" by the Platters is actually "small cats in your eyes".

Anon

You know that song "Indian Outlaw" by Tim McGraw? There's a part in the beginning that I always thought went, "All my friends call me dirt ball." Well, I heard it a few weeks ago and realized that he's saying "bear claw." I'm still not sure what he's saying.

keyboardplayer

My dad thought the song "I believe in Miracles" was actually "I Believe in Milkos" hahah he's 52!!!

GrK GdEsS

Remember that Madness song "Our House"? When they said "Our house, in the middle of our street" I used to believe that the house was literally in the middle of traffic. I wondered, did the house have a big opening where cars went through and then exited through the back?

Sue

When I got Bob Dylan's Freewheelin' album (around age 9), I thought the line in Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance that goes, "I'm lookin' for a woman needs a worried man" was "I'm lookin' for a woman needs a one-eyed man".

Anna

I thought for years that the end of a nirvana song Kurt said All we are is all we know" and I thought that was profound and quoted it often.

jullyard