I Used To Believe that in the nursery rhyme "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow" the man was actually travelling to a place called 'Mowameddo.'

Charley McKenzie

the first time i listened to The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" , i though they said "open up my biggest eye" instead of "open up my eager eyes" O_o i thought they talk about a transexual or something!!!

memole

my mom has this superchic{k} cd that she really likes if shes in the rite mood and she and my sister would sing along to this song together (it was called super trooper) and for a really really long time i thought that the lyrics were

"you were meant to live like Kiman Tay,
charge,
lets go light the world up,
lets not wait until the end,
to be the things we wish we'd been"

wheras the real lyrics are

"You were meant to live large,
come on take charge,
lets go light the world up,
lets not wait until the end,
to be the things we wish we'd been"
i seriously thought that Kiman Tay was some really famous person that i'd never heard of before but u should want to be like them. i was 14 too. oops.

Anon

I used to think that the words to The Wombles theme tune went:

"Wombles of Wimbledon,
Common are we"

As in "We are common."

Frances

Know that song that goes, "Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart" by Diana Ross & the Supremes? Well, I used to think she was singing, "Safe in the laundry room..." and everytime I heard it I would run to the laundry room and lock the door. Too bad my mom would always blast it on the stereo and she wouldn't know where I would go. Haha! :)

jennyyy

Here are some lyrics and words that I have heard wrong:

Forever in Blue Jeans was The Reverend Blue Jeans

Night Fever by the Bee Gees: Sweet City Woman was Two Headed Woman; I sort of knew that one was wrong

Sara Lee Commercial: I thought it was Nobody Does It Like Sara Lee, not so, it is Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. Horrible grammer.

Jan

You know that corny Winne the Pooh song that came out with the animated series in the late 80's? I think everyone has.

There's a line in there that goes...

"Wherever we go. Oh, won't you take me please...Pooh Bear, I gotta be there... it's me and it's you, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

Little me heard: "Wherever we go, no oh you tapey please... Pooh Bear I got a bee there... it's me and a shoe, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

All through the series, I had yet to see a happy, talking shoe and was confused why they mentioned him if they were never going to show him.

There's also a line in there that goes
"He's round and he's fuzzy, I love him because he's just... Pooh Bear...(ect.)

I heard: He's brown and he's fuzzy, I love em' because he's just..."

I got mad when I heard that line because Pooh Bear looked 100% orange to me. I thought the adults were just trying to test our color skills. I was seriously thinking about writing a letter to stop lying to us about Pooh Bear's color. When that didn't work, I just figured it was something wrong with my TV.

Ah... good times... good times...

Pooh Girl

I've started to sing in English well before I actually learned to understand it, so here go some of the things I found out a few years too late:

- In Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Hey You" it's
"You should have tried now, oooh"
and not
"You shouldn't drive now, oooh"

- In Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" it's
"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain" and not "paint" =)

and
"Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?", not "vein"

- Whitesnake's "Full For the Night" was only ever "Fool For Your Love"

- From Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah":
"The baffled king composing Hallelujah", well, I never did believe "the baffled kiss" made sense anyway.

Naíma

I asked myself if the passage of the song "American Pie" really was ment to sound like " I was a Lonely-Teenage-Drunken-Butt"

Slim Tom

I thought that Neil Young's song "Let's Impeach the President" said the words "Let's impeach the president for smiling" instead of "Let's impeach the president for spying".

Anon

i thought that new disney peter pan song said "spread your legs" but its really "spread your wings"

shasta

Growing up playing with a certain 70's death defying daredevil's array of merchandise including Stunt van , chopper and the famous crank wind up motorcycle toy, put a bit of an impression in my 6 year old mind when listening to the Who's lyrics "behind blue eyes" and the line " ...and if I swallow Evil Knievel(anything evil), put you fingers down my throat.."

Troy

I similarly thought that "Proud Mary" included the lyrics "pumped a lot of tanks down in New Orleans."

Larry

I once heard some lyrics from The Human League's best known song "Don't You Want Me" as "Swish your legs to find" instead of "It's much too late to find". Listening to that song today I still have trouble hearing the proper lyrics at that spot.

I also heard the first line to their later song "Soundtrack to a Generation" as "First melody can only be be that way" when it's "The smell of trees".

Anon

I used to think that the words to Feed the World by Band Aids lyrics were 'We know Whooooaa!'
instead of ' Feed the World' I believed this untill last christmas, im 20 now.

Swag Bag

self explanitory
"Im blue if I were green I would die, if I were green I would die"
instead of
"im blue dabadee dabadi"

Madi

"Everybody ther'es a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's hot dog stand" instead of
"Every morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's 4-post bed"
Every Morning by Sugar Ray

Boy was I wrong

Madi

I thought in the 90's when I was younger that in Beck's song "Loser" he was telling me different ways to kill myself.

Troy

song: under my umbrella
i heard: ill take a tack and stick you to the end.
real deal: took an oath and im gona stick to it till the end.

ow

A few years ago, when I met Sinatra's "LA is my lady", I thought he sang "I leave behind the father of myself", while the correct line is "I leave behind a part of myself". That may not make sense in English, but I'm Brazilian and my English was even poorer at that time.

Renato Lacerda