A friend and I were at the checkout clerk in the local grocery with his 5-year-old son when the George Michael/Elton John song "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" came over the in-store loudspeaker system. At the chorus the lad began belting "Don't let your son go down on me." We were mightily embarassed and had quite a time hushing him amidst the snickers and appalled expressions of the grocery clerks and other customers on-line. It was quite some time before my friend again shopped that grocery.

Shushing Godfather

Anyone remember "Lara's Theme" from the movie "Dr Zhivago?" I was about 10 when it came out and I think the Ray Coniff singers had a recording of it on the radio with lyrics. The last line was, "Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again," but I thought they were singing, "Don't speak, my love, till you are mine again." I always wondered how anyone could just stop speaking till they saw their sweetheart again, but I figured it was because they were so in love.

Kathy

I used to love the song "Killing Me Softly", until my dad heard the line "killing me softly with his song" and misheard it as "killing me softly with his thong". I can no longer take it seriously; I burst out laughing every time I hear it.

Anon

The song that says something like "Wild thing, you make my heart sing...". My sister convinced me that it said "Wild think, you keep my house clean." I'm not sure whether she believed it or not.

Anon

You know Green Day's lyrics to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"? They sing, "Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me."
My brother thought they sang "Sometimes, I wish a hungry bear would find me."

Georgia

Until I was 12 I used to think the Australian national anthem ("Advance Australia Fair") was about Australia putting up the price of Australian airline tickets so New Zealanders couldn't afford them - "Advance Australia Fares".

Anon

To 'I'm Adopted' - I thought the lyrics to 'Another One Bites The Dust' were actually 'another one buys the duster' - again, because of the 'dust-ah' emphasis!

I had this bizarre mental image to accompany it, too - all these men going down the street to a cornershop and buying those yellow dusters! Made sense to me!

Anon

That great 80's classic by Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - until earlier this year (I'm now 26) I was convinced they were singing the first line of the chorus in French - "Por vous jude anglais". Funnily enough, for the most part they aren't even real French words so goodness knows what I though they were singing about.

Anon

I thoguht that the lyrics to Stings song that goes 'i'm an alien, i'm a legal alien, i'm an Englishman in New york' was 'i'm an alien, i'm a legal alien i'm a legal mushroom in New York'
I was wondering why he was singing about mushrooms, that's just strange.

Legal Mushroom in England

I thought for ages on the song 20th Century Boy by Marc Bolan & T-Rex, the verse was "wine tastes fine, wine tastes good, something, something, just like Robin Hood!" when the REAl ones are "friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, everybody says it's just like rock'n'roll!". I still have no idea where the Robin Hood bit came from lol

Anon

In "Will you be there" by Michael Jackson, I misheard the first line as:

"Hold me, like a pair of Air Jordans".

I just found out the right lyrics now reading this website.

Scandia

I was driving along one day with my son and a few other people and the Bee Gees song "Tragedy" came on. I started singing along and when the chorus came on sang very loudly "Hercules" which I always thought it was. Imagine my embarassment when my son told me to shut up - it was Tragedy. A tragedy in itself as I have never lived it down.

Kay

when i was a little kid in primary school we would have to sing the Australian national anthem at assembly every Monday morning.
I guess they didn't do such a great job with teaching us the words, because until the age of 10 i was absolutely convinced that the line "Australians, all let us rejoice" was actually "Australians all love ostriches". As a child I didn't even think it odd enough to question why we were all professing our love for a native African bird every week.

matt

From Abba's song "Under Attack", I heard the lyric "under attack, I'm being taken, about to crack, defences breaking" as:

"under attack, I'm being taken, a butt crack, defences breaking"

abbaesque

wen i was bout 5 we used to sing this song at school assemblies .. i ALWAYS thought it was

" rock my sole in the person of the bakery?"
instead of
"rock my soul in the bosom of abraham"

i remember visions of a chef rocking someones shoe..

the even more embarrasing thing is that we had words projected up onto the wall...

tk

I used to think that the songs "Have you Ever Seen the Rain" and "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater actually stated "have you ever seen Lorraine?" and "Who'll stop Lorraine?" I could never figure out why they'd write (not one, but TWO!) songs after some lady named Lorraine. Seemed kind of boring to me.

Mel

The Monkees song "Sometime in the morning": Real lyrics are "you need no longer wear a disguise", I thought it was "you need no underwear or disguise".

Daria

My sister and I used to watch the Bugs Bunny cartoons on Saturday mornings. There's the one where Bugs is singing Jimmy Cracked Corn. We thought he was singing Jimmy Crapped Corn,which made total sense to us. We found out later in school what the real words were, it still made more sense to us that Jimmy would be crapping corn instead of cracking it and we grew up on a farm. It's a lot more comical to. I still sing the song that way.

Jamie

I used to believe that a song that actually says "We´re going to Ibiza" did say "We´re going to eat pizza". It was sung by the Vengaboys and they were not good at all, but the confussion was quite funny.

Mery

Until recently, I thought the singer of 'Fortunate Son' was passionly singing 'DMV! DMV! DMV!' As is turns it, he was saying 'It ain't me! It ain't me! It ain't me!' I did wonder why the guy was screaming about a driving department.

Maddy