I spent the early part of my childhood (at least primary school) thinking that two people featured in songs that actually never existed.

1. Anne Jenoit... "If you're happy, Anne Jenoit (and you know it), clap your hands...

2. Ray Novarus... "send her victorious, happy and glorious, belongs to Ray Novarus (long to reign over us), god save the queen.

I slowly disabused myself of these misconceptions but I miss my two childhood friends

tdavidj

When ever Elvis sang "In the ghetto" I always thought he said "In the kettle." For years I thought he sang a song about a bunch of people living in a tea pot.

Sarah

I thought America the Beautiful was written for me because my name is "Erika". I thought they were singing "I'm Erika, I'm Erika. God shed his grace on me."
No wonder I'm in therapy ...

Erika

when i was little i thought in queen's "we will rock you" he was saying " waving your bladder all over the place." rather than "wvaing your banner all over the place"

brie

You know the song "Eighteen Wheeler", by Alabama? My little brother used to belt out with all his heart instead of "Eighteen Wheeler", "Raging Weiner". ...that's what he thought it said.

Anon

When I was a young boy, my mother would sing the song "My bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea, bring back my bonnie to me." Well, I had never heard the word "bonnie" before, and when she sang "bonnie", I heard "body". To this day I have the image of a bloody, decapitated head sitting on a pier waiting for its body to come floating back across the ocean.

Liam Hays

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Weigh a pie."

Why did Dorothy weigh a pie somewhere over the rainbow?

John

This is really embarrassing as I wasn't even a child at the time!

When I was 14 I got a Bryan Adams CD which I really liked. Unfortunately I thought the first line of "Summer of 69" was "I had my first real sex dream" instead of "I got my first real six string." My church youth leader said we could bring CDs to the youth group as long as the songs didn't have anything rude in them and I never took my Bryan Adams CD along because I thought it was rude!

I am now 23 and only found out a couple of months ago what the real words are. My husband is still laughing at me.

Mhairi

I used to believe that the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Slide in the Vaseline" ! I think I was deaf as a kid?

Wierdo

"We built this city" by Starship. All younger members in our family were upset to find out that the lyrics actually went 'we built this city on rock and roll' and not 'we built this city on sausage rolls' as we had thought.

EB

In the song Rudolf the Red Nosed ReindeerI used to believe there were more reindeer than I had been told about. You know, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Olive..
The line went "Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names..." I used to think what a nasty reindeer Olive was and why did Santa keep her???

Rosey

While listening to AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long", I usually hear...
"She was a fast machine, she kept her boner clean, she was the best half woman that I ever seen.."
As opposed to...
"She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean, she was the best damn woman that I ever seen"

And Skid Row's "I Remember You"...

"Cause you'll always be my dream come true, Woman or man, I love you."
Instead of...
"Cause you'll always be my dream come true, Oh my darling, I love you"

Kinda a recurring theme.

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Who remembers the Wham Classic Wake Me Up And Bring Me Coco (as in hot chocolate)?
I sang that for years, how embarrassing.

Tommo

When I was in the 8th grade, there was a
fairly popular girl in school who thought that
George Harrison's song "I've got my mind set
on you" was actually "Wake up I might sit on
you" yeah, she was blonde...(no offense to
the intelligent towheads!)

PixieGoth

that in the song : "How deep is your love" by the Bee Gees, they sang "and you come to me in a submarine". Why not?Love is sometimes so powerful.

PS : the original lyrics are :
"And you come to me on a summer breeze". Not bad either.

E.V.

Until I was about 18 I thought that the lyrics to Madonnas 'Erotic' were,

'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body.'

He was on childrens television a lot at the time.

Blue

I used to think that the 80's song

" I wish that I had Jesse's girl"

was

"I wish that I was Jesse's girl"

and I was so confused as to why a boy would want to be Jesse's girl.

Anon

I thought Californication by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers lyrics were:

"Dream of midget fornication"
as opposed to:
"Dream of Californication"
I often wondered why the song had no reference to its title!

Louweez

For the longest time as a child, my father thought Trooper's "Raise a Little Hell" was actually "Raise a Little Elf", having first heard it around Christmas... It was only when he asked why Christmas songs were being played out of season that he learned the truth.

~Earthman Xosha Rosp

I used to think that the lyrics "just a special touch of paradise" were "just a special touch of parrots eyes". The song was sampled on an advert for Malaysia. I used to love that song, and imagined travelling to Malaysia and being able to pet the parrots. I decided I would be kind and not touch their eyes, though, because they probably didn't like that much.

Jem