When we were 11 and 12 my sister, a big Billy Idol fan, thought "Eyes without a face" was "How's about a date?". Wishful thinking!

Michelle

When I was little, I used to sing along to the Paul Simon song, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover :
"Slip out the back Jack
Make a new bandstand
Don't need to be cordroy
Just just listen to me"
How was I to know that he said,
"Make a new plan Stan
Don't need to be coy Roy",
and that the whole song was about splitting up... although the title should have given it away. I just liked the idea of building a bandstand and not having to wear cordoy

zebra

As a kid, whenever i heard the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick In The Wall" the line that goes "No dark sarcasm in the classroom " i heard as:

"The Dukes of Hazzard in the bathroom"


and the theme to Sesame Street where it says "sunny days sweeping the clouds away", as a kid i always sang it as:

"Sunny day, sleep a lot. a-ok"

Funny i've grown up now to become a music major in university and sing in various groups - where i have had trouble remembering lyrics to songs i've had solos in! go figure.

Olga

The song: Conway Twitty's "Hello, Darlin'." The line: "You're just as lovely as you used to be." What I heard: "You're just as ugly as you used to be." I always wondered why he would think "ugly" was a compliment.

confused kid

When I was younger we used to sing the Canadian National Anthem at every school assembly. I proudly sang "with glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free", congratulating myself on getting all the words right. However, it wasn't until I was a little older that I realized I had at least one line a little bit wrong. The line was, in fact, "We stand on GUARD for thee", and not "We stand on GOD for thee" as I had been singing my whole life. I just figured we must be a pretty great nation if we came above God in the grand scheme of things.

Proud Canadian

Also, my little sister LOVED the movie Grease, she was the movie's biggest fan... her favorite song was..."you're the thinga-ma-bob!" (instead of you're the one that I want")

Amy

Instead of Madonnas 'Like a virgin' I used to sing 'Like a gerbil'

Stupid Child

I think its the temptations the song "the girl's alright with me" i thought it was "the world just chopped my knee"

Nick

I used to sing along to the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" thinking that the lyrics, "My life is brilliant" were "My life is bread" and "She could see from my face that I was
flying high" were really "she could see in my face I was fucking high." Whoops!

Alyssa

i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"

stephen s

When I was younger I thought the lyrics to Billy Joel's Only the Good die young were "I'd rather laugh with the Singers than cry with the saints". My maiden name was Singer.

Pam

When I was young I thought the chorus of Paul Young's 'Everytime You Go Away' went:

Everytime you go away,
You take a piece of meat with you
(actual lyric 'You take a piece of me with you')

I used to think that while it was very odd that his girlfriend would take meat with her whenever she went away I still couldn't understand why it upset him so much. I figured when I was older I would understand

Sara

From the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with diamonds", I used to think "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes" came out sounding like:

"The girl with colitis goes by"

nina

From John Lennon's "Just like starting over", I heard "Don't let another day go by, my love" as "Don't let another Dago buy my love"

pretty ballerina

I used to think that the London Bridge song went "London's britches falling down" I always felt really bad for people named London who happened to be shopping or something whenever people sang that song.

Kara

When i was in all region choir in 8th grade, the boys did a peice that said " i travel the muddy muddy banks of the low road" and i thought they were saying "the bunny bunny bangs" I started busting up during our concert and i got in touble.

Sarayha

Until about a couple of years ago, I thought the line in the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" was "Cheer up sweet Bejean."

Larry

I died laughing when my 9 year old niece sang Beyonce's "Irreplaceable":

"I could have a barbeque in a minute."

Amused

When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!

Greg

Around the age of eleven or twelve, I thought the Bananarama song Venus sang "I'm your penis" [I'm your Venus]. I was scandalized every time I heard it.

Cuz