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!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon
- When I first heard the song "Constant Craving" by KD Lang, I thought she was singing "God save gravy."Anon
- When I first heard Matt Monro's song "Born Free," I thought he was singing "Porn Free."Anon
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - Does anybody remember that song "OUT OF REACH" well i remember i used to sing it as "BATTEERRRRYYY". — meeeeeeeee
- in the song "show me heaven" i used to sing "make me breakfast" instead of "leave me breathless"Anon