worringly until quite recently i thought that in Will Smith's song - Boom Shake the Room they were singing "pump it up CHRIS" instead of "Pump it up PRINCE". Actually i've sung that out loud and no-one ever corrected me... so that's why they laughed !!

Pri

When i was younger, i heard The Beatles sing:

Shes got a ticket to ride,
shes got a ticket to ride,
shes got a ticket to ride,
but she dont care.

My baby dont care.
My baby dont care.

I thought they sang:

Shes got a chicken to ride,
shes got a chicken to ride,
shes got a chicken to ride,
but she dont care.

My baby donkey.
My baby donkey.

Lol. To my surprise, i've found a flashfilm on a website with a chicken riding a baby donkey, and that very same song playing in the background:

http://www.rathergood.com/chicken/

Morten Vestergaard

when Rush, Rush by Paula Abdul came out, my aunt had just had her baby. So in the chorus, when Paula says, "Rush, rush" My aunt thinks she is saying, "push, push". To this day, she refuses to believe otherwise.

Fallon

In February me and my family went to a concert with Kraftwerk. When the song "Numbers" came up, my life stopped for a second. I´ve always known a part of the lyric as:
"I am Padding,
and Sam Tackting".
Now, in the age og nineteen, I do not have to ask myself who the heck this guys are anymore, and why they´re mentioned in a song about numbers.. Because the correct lyric is:
"I´m adding,
and subtracting"...

-Great concert, by the way! ; )

Sita, Norway

my sister's friend used to think that "lets give them something to talk about" was "lets give them something from taco bell"...so now every time we go to taco bell we sing...lets get em something from taco bell...it should be taco bells theme song oooo yea muahahaha

Krista --CA

when i was little i used to think that AC/DC were singing about a dalmation until someone told me it was actually rock and roll Damnation.

One very dumb person

One of my friends thought that in the song "Hero" when it says "And we'll fly on the wings of heroes, watch as they all fly away" actually said "And we'll fly on the wings of mosquitoes..."

CP

As a little boy, I constantly misheard The Beach Boys' song California Girls. It confused me, especially in their high-pitched voices, when I heard them sing "I wish we all could be California girls!" It made me feel funny inside. I knew they were very cool, because no one was cooler than a surfer--was I supposed to want to be a California girl too?

Now a closet crossdresser...

Up until about 2 weeks ago, I thought the line, "I got my first real six-string," (from Summer of '69), was "I got my first real sex dream!" I thought it was a bit risqué!

Irishgal!

About every month since 1978 my Dad will utter at some stage while going about his daily business the opening line of Bonnie Tyler's "It's a Heartache" as "It's a hard egg, nothing but a hard egg". We have even invented the French version of the song: "C'est un oeuf dur, rien qu'un oeuf dur..."

Dave

I used to believe the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair" were, as follows: "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?/ Where the Dead live and die . . ." As such, I was irrationally terrified of the song for many years. Always imagining this carnival of the dead, full of skeletons on ferris wheels and such.

Anon

Remember good old Scorpions with "Rock you like a hurricane"? I seriously thought the song was about a guy that was causing decay and making people rot, and then comparing himself with a furry crane:

Here i am!
Rot you like a furry crane!

Doesn't make much sense, does it? :)

Morten Vestergaard

My family had real problems with Bob Marley.
We had 'Pixiedust' (exodus)
'i shot the sherrif but i didnt shoot no dead budgie' (i shot the sherrif but i didnt shoot the deputy)
and the best was pixiedust groovy bunch of people.

i was proud of pixiedust.

vikgor

I used to think that the line "all the leaves are brown" in California Dreaming was really "all the Lisa Browns" *grin*

finelywired

My husband heard Julian Cope's song "China Doll", which warns, "You're gonna wake up in the morning/ With a crowd 'round your bed" - but he thought it was ".../With kraut on your lip." i didn't see how anyone could make that mistake until i listened to the song, but it really does sound like that.

Amy Hostler

I used to think in 'theme from Shaft' the line went

'Whos the cat who wont come out when theres danger all about?'

Not much of a hero really!

Maria

I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.

Briony Maggs

there's this commercial that they recently played a lot on cartoon network. It advertises a compilation album of love songs. And my daughter, who watches cartoon network a lot (she's six), was particularly smitten with one song. She'd sing it - or at least the part from the commercial - all the time. And one day she asked me to buy that song for her. "Daddy, I want you to get me Osamio Lady." "Osami lady?" I asked. And then she sang it to me. I recognized it from the commercial, but I realized that I didn't know what it really said either. My girlfriend finally cleared things up for us. The song is "Cause I'm your lady" by Celine Dion.

mr strauss

My friend used to think hit me with your rythm stick was hit me with your fiddle stick!! lol

Anon

i used to believe the song by daniel beddingfield wrap your words around me or whatever it is went "is it right to bring her solids in the morning" when it's acutally "is it right to bring her sonnets in the morning"

Sy