That Madonna song 'Get Erotic' kinda came funny to my ears. To me, it sounded like 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'

Ai

I can't remember the name of the song or the artist, though I know it was a woman
However the chorus had the words 'The Girl can't help it'
I was sure she was singing 'The Brylcreme muppet'

Sharruma

In 'You're the One That I Want' out of 'Grease', I always thought they were singing 'Russian love, Russian love for me and you' (ie Nothing left, nothing left for me to do).

And going back a bit further than that, I thought the words to the nursery rhyme were 'Horsey horsey don't you stop. Just let your wheels go clippety clop.' Sad thing is, I was in my twenties and singing it to my niece before I suddenly thought 'hang on, horses don't have wheels do they?' Well, it's not like I sang it all that often in the intervening years..

Rob

when i heard "strawberry fields forever" for the first time, i mistook it as "strawberry fields for trevor" whenever i heard the song i would say (rather loudly i might add)"WHO'S TREVOR? AND WHY DOES HE GET STRAWBERRY FIELDS" once i did this is a sore at the mall, wih a radio playing. It gets worse. We (my parents and i, i was about 5) were at an electronics store, and just then a salemen came around and said "Do you have any questions?" "yes," i reaplied "Who's trevor?"
Unfortunatly for me, nobody understood (What a nice imagination our daughter has) or set me straight about the song lyrics. Several years later, when i was 9 i was still hanging on the my "Trevor" belief when i went to a Pick-Ur-Own strawberry farm type thing with a sign that said "Strawberry Fields" this set off a little bell in my head, would i soon find out who trevor was? when some guy came to tell us where to go and to give us a container for the strawberries i just had to say : "Excuse me, but are you trevor?"

tigerlily

I have always liked the Four Seasons, and when I was a little girl, I thought that Frankie Valli was singing, "Big girls small fry." I used to picture girls going to McDonald's.

Hilary

My friend Liz used to think that the lyric from Macy Gray's I Try was 'I wear goggles when you are not here' instead of 'My world crumbles when you are not here'. I laughed at her, until I heard the song again and have to admit that it does sound like Macy is singing Liz's version!

Anon

Did anyone else hear The Verve singing 'the trucks don't work'? But why would that make you worse?
My son had to tell me it was the drugs that didnt work....

helen

My friend Sam used to thing that that "Grease lightning" song went "i've got chills, from multiplying"
It was funny when we finally broke the news to her...

Sum41Phreak

We were listening to the queen song 'Bohemia Rhapsody' when my partner in all honesty sang the words 'miss miller let me go, beheljibub has a cuboard put aside for me' when the real words are 'bismilla, let me go, beheljibub has a devil put aside for me' he told me that all these years since the song was released that he had thought that what he'd been singing were the right words, I nearly wet myself laughing, bless him.

Marie

There is a song by the girl group All Saints called "I Feel You" with a line that goes "blessed with love and happiness" - for ages (and much to my sisters amusement) i thought it was "blessed with love and a penis"...

tree

When I was 11, I misheard one line in "Sleeping sun" by Nightwish, and I thought she was singing "rodent caresses me" (I didn't know it was "ardent"). I thought Tarya was bestialist!

Leppiej

Until recently,I thought that the following line in Carly Simon's "you're so vain" went "I had some dreams,there were clowns in my coffee, clowns in my coffee." It was really "i had some dreams. They were clouds in my coffee,clouds in my coffee.

Glowworm

Gala Freed from desire lyrics:
My love has got no money he's got his trampoline!!

Its actually my love has got no money he's got his strong beliefs!!!

Anon

when i was small, i used to think the christmas song, the 12 days of christmas, had the words..

'on the first day of xmas my tulip sent to me.' instead of my 'true love'!!

i still find myself singing it to this day!!(quite a few years later!!)

lizzy

Another eighties hit that goes "I got my mind set on you..."
On the bus from kindergarten until third grade, whenever the song would come on the whole bus would sing ...SIT ON YOU" But it wasn't until I was 16 that I realized it wasn't really how it went...damn kids...

Anon

The lyrics to Outkast's song "I'm sorry Miss Jackson"...I was convinced he was saying "It's my British accent". Never mind that the guy has NO trace of a British accent :-)

Rivi S

As I child I never could figure out who this 'Jose' was that people always sang about: "Jose can you see, by the dawnsearly light..."

Anon

It wasn't until recent years I realized after my wife's several hours of laughter that the lyrics for PM Dawn's "Die Without You" was far from "Die Without Shoes"... however she quickly agreed it might have been better written that way :-/

Matt Hudson -- Columbia, SC

At the end of the song"Please don't go" which came out in the 80's, I thought they were saying Pizza Dough. Now when I hear that song with my kids, I still sing pizza dough and we all laugh.

Anon

There's a (horrible) song by a band that my daughter listens to, and I thought went:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not forty

and the real lyrics are:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not horny

I thought maybe he thought that it was illegal to get those kinds of emails unless he was forty. I told my daughter, and she started laughing.

Hey, it's not like you can understand songs these days anyway.

Em