In Queen's 'Flash Gordon' theme, there's a bit where the evil queen (or whatever she is) does a talkie bit. I always thought she was saying 'Dispatch Warlock and Ajax to bring back his body', whereas my sister always believed it was 'Dispatch Warlocken agents to etc etc'. The dispute went on for years, until she met her future husband, who kindly pointed out that the actual words are 'Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring etc etc'. Neither of us believed him, until we saw the film and discovered that there was indeed a rocket named Ajax in it, whereas there were no warlocken agents and nor were there any characters by the name of Warlock. Oh well, at least I got the 'Ajax' bit right.

Rob

When I was a little girl, I loved watching the movie Grease. My favorite song was one Rizzo would sing..."Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee....Lousy with virginity" Well I always thought it was "Look at me I'm Sandra Dee...I'm from West Virginia, see" My family still likes to tease me about that!

Lori

my friends mum loved madonnas "like a birdie" and when she found out it was actually "like a virgin" she never sang it again, shame!!

anna

This was actually more recently than childhood, but until I looked up the lyrics to "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)" by Nine Days, I was wondering why on Earth they were singing "When you look in the mirror, say hi to your shoes"... (They were really saying "So how do you choose?")

Athazagoraphobia

I'm not very old still, but when i was smaller and living in england, there was the popular remake of the song "killing me softly" by lauren hill, and the chorus goes:
killing me softly, with this song
but for some reason, i always thought it was:
killing me softly, with his saw
and i would sing it out loud and no one would say anything so i assumed it was correct.... heh

Jesse

In the Beatles' song 'All My Loving' I misheard 'I'll write home every day' as I'll ride home every day'.

I thought, why's he making such a fuss about being away if he can ride home every day? I imagined a cowboy or Pony Express rider singing the song.

Later when I learned that he was expecting to WRITE home every day, I still saw him on horseback, leaning a writing pad on trees and gates as he passed while riding a horse and writing a letter home at the same time.

Carla- Crewe, Cheshire, UK

When I was little I used the listen to the song "I Got My Mind Set On You" and I used to think he was singing "look out i might sit on you".

Kid At Heart

Remember the song "Safety Dance"? I thought they were saying "we can dance, everybody pull off your pants" instead of "everybody look at your hands". I still like to sing this version! :P

TxTetley

Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).

Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.

So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.

Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;

Lunaticat

i used to think that the song "hungry eyes" said "whole green eyes". I couldn't understand what it meant. It made me think of grapes!!

Also, in Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, i thought the chorus said "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a SPOON". I didn't get that either.

Helena

I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....

wook

My younger sister used to have a teddy bear named "Bim-Bim" She thought the song "Taking Care of Business" was "Taking Care of Bim-Bim" My parents played along so well, that I believed (I was 8-10 at the time) that BTO had really written a song about my little sister's teddy bear.

cara

i used to think that meatloaf paradise by the dashboard light used to say " aint no doubt about it he was looking gay cos he was barely 17 and he was wearing a dress", when it actually says "aint no doubt about it we were doubtly blessed cos we were only 17 and we were barely dressed.

stacey

I misheard 'she just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich' in 'Down Under' by Men at Work. Not having heard of Vegemite then I thought it was a 'bitumen sandwich'. I still annoy my husband by deliberately singing this version whenever it comes on the radio.

Anon

When I heard the Sum41 song 'Still Waiting', I thought the chorus was *clears throat*

'Why am I still waiting? Why am I constapating?'

Shadow Spider

In Good Charlotte's The Anthem I thought that they were saying "This is the end, so blow all your heads up!" instead of "This is the Anthem, throw all your hands up!"

Elizabeth

Huey Lewis's "Hip to be square" - in 3rd grade I could have SWORN it was "hit the beef square". ????

Anon

For a long time I thought the Beatles song Penny Lane had a weird title since the words were "...And Elaine is in my..."

Kate

When i first saw the film Grease, i actually thought that in the song 'you're the one that i want' they were singing 'you're the wizard of oz, ooh ooh ooh' well let's face it olivia newton john comes from australia and she did record a song called 'Magic'so it fits. Lol

Marie

There is this bit in Up Where we belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner which goes "standing here together". My friend Heather was singing it in front of a group of people and sang "Stanley's gone forever". When they all stopped and looked at her she said " I know, who the hell is Stanley!"

Gemma