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A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

Given that I really loved music as a child, I inevitably developed some rather unusual beliefs about certain songs. I really thought that “Wig Wam Bam” by The Sweet was really about wig wams and that it was about one that was by a river since the song mentions something about standing by water. My mother raised us on Queen and there is a song called “Killer Queen.” I had the video of The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe so it was obvious…the song had to be about the evil Snow Queen! :P How did I back this up? Well, I misheard one of the lines as “she keeps a mole and a shovel in her pretty cabinet.” I figured that the mole was still in stone cos Aslan had yet to free it! The true line is “she keeps a Moet et Shandon in her pretty cabinet.” Champagne IS a more sensible item I guess. ;) The famous “Bohemian Rhapsody” gave rise to a funny one. I misheard part of it as “open your eyes look up to the sky and heave” and I concluded that it must be partially to do with being sick and thought that the boy in the song was not only on trial for shooting someone but for puking on a policeman! The way their heads spun around eachother on the video also seemed to suggest that they felt dizzy and sick. Needless to say that I never wanted to barf on a bobby! :P

— Ocean-Sirius

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