For about 20 years I thought the first lines of Elvis Presley's 'Suspicious Minds' were "I'm courting a trout, I can't walk out". It may be a weird concept and not make sense but at least it rhymes better than the real lyrics!

Barry, Norwich, England

To a classic song my brother thought the words were as follows: "Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the ENVELOPES play." The oddity of such a situation never seemed to occur to him.

TC

My older sister and I are very close in age. When we were four and five, we were in a Taco Bell with our parents and our baby brother around Christmas Time. We were singing Christmas Carols...and got to "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". Well, we got to the line where it goes, "santa came to say, rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight" but we were convinced and sang at the top of our lungs in this packed Taco Bell "Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you be my slave tonight?" Everyone stared at my parents wondering what kind of people they were to teach us those words and we never went back to that taco bell.

Anon

When i heard POD's "youth of the nation" for the first time, then i heard this:

You cross the line and there’s no turning back
Told the world how he felt
With the sound of a gat

I thought they sang something about a guy commiting suicide:

You cross the line and there’s no turning back
Took his own life
with the side of a cat!

Yup! I really thought this guy committed suicide by knocking himself down with a cat :)

Morten Vestergaard

My sister and I thought the chorus of the song 'Everybody Dance Now!' by C&C Music Factory was 'Everybody, PANTS DOWN!'

It was actually very funny because when we were in the car we'd scream this at the top of our lungs.

Shadow Spider

When i was younger i liked the song lets talk about sex which goes, "Lets talk about sex baby lets talk about you and me..." My mom, not wanting to explain sex to me yet convinced me that it went "Lets talk about socks baby, n how they get dirty..." I thought that it went like that until i was about 12.

haha

I thought the first line of the national Anthem (Australian) was:
"Australian's all eat ostriches,
For we are young and free"

Xyla

I spent the early part of my childhood (at least primary school) thinking that two people featured in songs that actually never existed.

1. Anne Jenoit... "If you're happy, Anne Jenoit (and you know it), clap your hands...

2. Ray Novarus... "send her victorious, happy and glorious, belongs to Ray Novarus (long to reign over us), god save the queen.

I slowly disabused myself of these misconceptions but I miss my two childhood friends

tdavidj

When ever Elvis sang "In the ghetto" I always thought he said "In the kettle." For years I thought he sang a song about a bunch of people living in a tea pot.

Sarah

I thought America the Beautiful was written for me because my name is "Erika". I thought they were singing "I'm Erika, I'm Erika. God shed his grace on me."
No wonder I'm in therapy ...

Erika

when i was little i thought in queen's "we will rock you" he was saying " waving your bladder all over the place." rather than "wvaing your banner all over the place"

brie

You know the song "Eighteen Wheeler", by Alabama? My little brother used to belt out with all his heart instead of "Eighteen Wheeler", "Raging Weiner". ...that's what he thought it said.

Anon

When I was a young boy, my mother would sing the song "My bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea, bring back my bonnie to me." Well, I had never heard the word "bonnie" before, and when she sang "bonnie", I heard "body". To this day I have the image of a bloody, decapitated head sitting on a pier waiting for its body to come floating back across the ocean.

Liam Hays

When I was younger, maybe 7 or so I used to think the line in the song Barbara Anne by the Beach Boys "went to a dance, lookin' for romance. Saw Barbara Anne so I thought I'd take a chance" REALLY was saying "Went to the dance, lookin for some pants. Saw Barbara Anne's so I thought I'd take her pants"

Stephanie

I've never let my mum live down the time when she was singing 'Take That Look Off Your Face' from the musical 'Song and Dance' (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black).....she sang 'There's more than one car with knickers on'!
Personally I'm yet to see one car like this!

Conifer

This is really embarrassing as I wasn't even a child at the time!

When I was 14 I got a Bryan Adams CD which I really liked. Unfortunately I thought the first line of "Summer of 69" was "I had my first real sex dream" instead of "I got my first real six string." My church youth leader said we could bring CDs to the youth group as long as the songs didn't have anything rude in them and I never took my Bryan Adams CD along because I thought it was rude!

I am now 23 and only found out a couple of months ago what the real words are. My husband is still laughing at me.

Mhairi

"Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tangerine, oooh yeaaaaah" ...

I used to think that tangerines used to make a special sound when you hit them. Cue squashed citrus fruit all over the house. My mother was not happy.

Mina, UK

I used to think that the song from CATS ("Gelical cats!") actually went "Genital cats!" I thought Genital Cats was like, another euphemism for crabs or soething, because the song went, "Genital cats are black and white. Genital cats are rather small...."

Kitty

Theres a bit in Avril Lavigne's Complicated where she sings "Honestly promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it". I was pretty sure I heard the line "Thomas please promise me I'm never gonna find you naked"

My flatmate at the time was a guy called Tom so it was particularly apt. It was like she was singing to me maaan, it was like Lavigne UNDERSTOOD.

Unahappy ending to this story though as I did inadvertently come home to find Tom naked.

Thanks for listening, this is far cheaper than therapy

I Am Scientist

when i first heard boyfriend by Ashlee Simpson i thought she said, "I'm pregnant with you boyfriend" instead of "I didn't steal your boyfriend." I couldn't understand who would have a fetus for a boyfriend.

thefullmetalalchemist