There's a famous hoe-down song with the words "Where did you come from, Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe..." which I'd heard dozens of times throughout my childhood. Until I was 17 years old, I thought the words were "Where did you come from, 'Gotta Find Joe!"

I still like my version better...who's ever heard of a guy with "cotton eyes" anyway? :)

Jackie F

Util very recently I thought that in the Greese song, the girl sang 'Can you feel my erection' and i used to find it rather odd, her being a girl and all! It actually goes.. 'Can you feel my affection'

Chloé

I only ever heard the song "Camptown Races" once. Every other time I heard it, the guy was just mumbling nonsense. It was that cartoon-rooster guy (I don't remember his name). When I heard my friend singing it, I thought he said "Camptown Racists". What confused me even more was that the first line or so is "Camptown Races sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah...". How can a race sing a song? Do they mean a race like white, black, etc.? Some songs don't make sense to me!

Mr. Observative

Savage Garden had a song. I cannot remember the name. But this what I thought the lyrics were.
Ooh I want you I don't know if I need you Ooh I I'm dying to find Hell.
Real Lyrics.
Oh I want you I don't know if I need you ooh I'm dying to find out

Valerie

when i was little i heard the charlie daniel's song "devil went down to georgia". then i heard it on the radio and i believed the song had been changed because on the cd version he says " i told you once you son of a bitch" and on the radio "he says you son of a gun". this was before i knew about censoring things...

beth

When Macy Gray was big, my sister thought the line in the chorus of her first song 'my world crumbles when you are not near' was 'i blow bubbles when you are not near'

shauna

i used to listen to the song 'man in the moon' and when the line went 'if you believe there is a man in the moon...' i thought it was 'if you believe there is a man in you room'

Kaylee

When I was a child and we drove around Chicago, I first heard the Hall & Oates' song "Maneater" on the car. I thought that Daryl Hall & John Oates said "Oh Michigan!" because I was thinking about Lake Michigan and so.

Anon

That song that goes:
I'll never let you go...
I thought he was singing:
Another machine gun...

Haha.

Kelle

I used to believe that the lyrics in Men at Work's "Who Can it be Now" were: "I like it here with my choclate friends" because Dylan said so.

Michael Jensen

I always got the song "I'm a God by Vertical Horizon confused.

their verison:
I'm a God and your a God.
My verison:
Cause your a guy and I'm a guy.

I was like "What that song dont make no sense"!

brenda t.

The line, "Every time you go away, you take a piece of me, with you." My friends and I used to think that it said, "you take a piece of meat with you." Thats romantic. Meat. We were 7, we didnt have a clue. It coulda been meat.

Christa

I used to think the song "Secret Agent Man" was "Secret Asian Man".

Anon

I used to believe that the lyrics "The funk phenomenon" were "My poop is coming on"

Curly

In the Peter Gabriel song, "Don't give up" I thought that he sang "Donkey Butt" instead of "don't give up" in the song and I never really understood why...

Anon

I used to think that Supertramp's song "Dreamer" was about me. I was convinced they were singing about "Dreama".

Dreama

Listening to the Rascals' Grooving I though the words "you and me, endlessly" were "you and me and Leslie"..

fucked up a bit...huhhhh

Jimbo C.

Just last year me and a couple of my friends were sitting in the car when the country song 'She's My Kind of Rain' by Tim McGraw came on. I began to sing "She's my Cadillac!" instead of "She's my kind of rain". My friends let me sing the whole song like that before pointing out that i was singing it ALL wrong.
I could actually picture a cadillac on a showroom floor with confetti falling down on it! :p

Kinkeroo

The Killers line "my affection comes and goes" - I always believed it was "my erection comes and goes".

Nice.

amy

I used to think that "I'm blue da ba dee da ba di" was "I'm blue I will bleed I will die" I was a morbid child...

Tori